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Bill Ackman's Critics Had "Extreme Skepticism" About These 3 Investments, but He Still Made Billions on Them

The Motley Fool

Among the problems that Ackman saw was an enormous amount of leverage. He said the company's liabilities-to-equity ratio was 139 to 1. Just a simple credit downgrade would be catastrophic with that much leverage. Hedging against the 2020 market crash: $2.6 That said, it still worked out quite well in Ackman's case.

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Why I Keep Padding My Position in This Prodigious Passive-Income Producer

The Motley Fool

The midstream giant made the difficult decision to slash its payout by 50% in 2020 to retain additional cash for debt reduction. The company recently achieved its targeted leverage ratio of 4.0 The company structured the deal so that it would be leverage neutral. That deleveraging strategy has been a success. It spent $1.45

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value. Since 2020 we've invested $825 million of total cash on our balance sheet. Leverage provides the opportunity to generate higher returns if the price increases.

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Blue Owl backs $4bn PCI Pharma deal

Private Equity Wire

PCI Pharmas current financial obligations include a $1.9bn leveraged loan, approximately $700m in preferred equity, and other liabilities. In 2020, Kohlberg & Company acquired a majority stake in the company, while Mubadala Investment Company obtained a minority interest. percentage points over SOFR.

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Mr. Cooper Group (COOP) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. In 2020, we used Pyro to process 150 million pages of data. Finally, we did an outstanding job generating positive operating leverage, with expenses up only $6 million sequentially, despite our rapid growth.

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Better Buy: Plug Power vs. ChargePoint

The Motley Fool

It gained Amazon and Walmart as its top customers by subsidizing their fuel cell sales with stock warrants -- or options to buy more of its own shares at a discount -- but those incentives exceeded the total amount customers paid it by 2020. That issue caused Plug Power's reported revenue to turn negative in 2020. government.

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Better Stock-Split Stock: Sony vs. MicroStrategy

The Motley Fool

In 2020, the company began investing the cash generated from its operations into Bitcoin. From the start of its 2020 investment in Bitcoin through the end of this July, MicroStrategy stock has risen more than 1,200%. Its Q2 total liabilities of $4.2 Since then, MicroStrategy has amassed 226,500 Bitcoins as of July 31.