The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The rankings indicate how successful brands are at attracting consumer attention, generating sales, gaining market share, and leveraging pricing power. Consider Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , the company at the top of the rankings. It isn't just the most valuable brand in the world, it's the most valuable public company, too.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Revenue has nearly tripled since the end of 2020, with traffic growth driving positive sales from older shops. The lackluster stock performance can be blamed on an expensive valuation when the company first went public, especially since Dutch Bros hasn't reported much profit as a public company yet.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

The company's newest product, aptly named Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), takes it to another level. As companies realize they must leverage AI to keep up with competitors, it will drive demand. The company is long-term debt-free and has $3.7 Palantir reported $2.2 billion in cash and investments.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We leverage our development capabilities to explore innovation and bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with our commitment to digital asset growth. Since August 2020, we've invested $836 million of total cash on our balance sheet. We have added bitcoin to our treasury balance sheet in every quarter since August 2020.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Since 2020, when we began our financial and operating transformation, the results and comparisons have been rather dramatic and are worthy of some reflection. Since 2020, when we began this journey, we have reduced our year supply of land owned from three years supply to an expected 1.1 billion in dividends since 2020.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to investing in tech stocks, many investors wrongly focus on share price as a perceived indicator of a given company's value. You should also consider metrics like market cap (the total value of a public company's shares outstanding) relative to the size of a business' total addressable market (TAM).

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

From a global view, our industry is nearing the $1 trillion TAM we predicted when we launched as a public company seven years ago. Our innovations in 2018 and '19 and 2020 helped us gain share during 2020 and 2021. The global changes of 2020 and 2021 ushered in a period of innovation in CTV. According to the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A key theme for 2023 was operating leverage. If you go back to the WMIH merger in 2018, which is when we became a fully independent public company, our first priority was deleveraging, which we accomplished by refinancing our senior notes and extending our liquidity runway. At the time, there was skepticism about their value.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Since the end of 2020, EOG has generated more than $22 billion of free cash flow and more than $25 billion in adjusted net income. And we continue to improve our capital efficiency by leveraging technology and innovation across both our foundational and emerging assets. Here's Ezra. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Please note that during the discussion today, the company will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, tax rate applicable to adjusted net income, adjusted EPS, adjusted EBITDA margin, segment income margin, net debt, and net leverage ratio, as well as constant currency comparisons.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

Good morning, and thank you for joining our second-quarter earnings call and our very first as a public company. Over the last 135 years, we have established ourselves as the world's largest pure-play consumer health company. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Thibaut. What are the barriers to adoption?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

So based on a financial statement, they actually provided the court in 2020, the ad manager part of the business made an operating profit of $368 million on revenue booked of $7.4 If you look at the 2020 numbers for Alphabet, the company in all brought in over $41 billion in operating profit alone. Now, 368 million with an M.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

This improvement demonstrates the leverage in our model and our disciplined approach to spending. We're delivering this increased profitability while also continuing to invest in innovation, which is the lifeblood of our company. RingCentral has been an early pioneer, leveraging and contributing to all these important innovations.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

We're fortunate that we don't have to spend money on marketing, which actually creates a lot of leverage in our financials service as well. You almost come into a business as totally ready to be a public company from revenue growth and debt maturity perspective. I actually like being in a public company.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

We have made significant progress in our first quarter as a public company and are on track with plans to separate fully from Cummins. I do want to bring to your attention that we filed an 8-K on Tuesday restating our first-quarter 2023 financial statements and revising annual prior periods for 2020 through 2022. Operator OK.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

PIPEs are private investments made in public companies, with no shares offered on the open market. Private equity firms use this method opportunistically to invest in public companies, typically taking non-controlling stakes. They were also frequently used in SPACs to take advantage of retail mania.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2023

It doesn't mean they have no leverage. As a market, overall revenue for China has almost tripled from 2020-2022 from roughly 6.7 That's December 2020 to December 2022. The more interesting market here for me, and there are public companies in this market, and I can give you two of them are VTOLs, so vertical takeoff and landing.

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Anzu Partners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

(“NUBURU” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: BURU) , a leading innovator in high-power and high-brightness industrial blue laser technology, today announced that its board of directors has appointed Ron Nicol as Executive Chairman, effective immediately. About NUBURU Founded in 2015, NUBURU, Inc.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

So we deliver on our commitments, which we have achieved not just every quarter as a public company, but every quarter as a private company as well. But before I hand it to Lindsay, I want to take a moment to reflect on our first year as a public company. This is something we have always done.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

Our leverage metrics will continue to improve throughout 2024 as our EBITDA continues to grow and our debt levels improve. billion, we expect a two-turn improvement in net debt-to-EBITDA leverage compared to year-end 2023, approaching 4.5 We will continue to look for more opportunistic refinancings over time. Is there some ESG risk?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

2023 was DV's third year as a public company and one where we continue to deliver industry-leading revenue and profitability growth fueled by AI-powered product innovations that drove a higher ROI for our customers and accelerated DV's global client expansion trajectory and market share gains.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 2024

I'll note that this is the 16th consecutive quarter as a public company, in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance. We believe that over 95% of the Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft products. C3 AI has been a public company for 16 quarters. Our non-GAAP net loss per share was $0.06.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The agency can leverage our data cloud and intelligence to build higher ROI campaigns in fiber walled garden. As an example, Zeta's first large agency customer in 2020 started with 7% direct mix and $3 million in revenue, growing to 76% direct mix and over $20 million in revenue over a three-year period. times to five times leverage.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

We also continue to leverage special dividends and buybacks to return additional cash depending on market conditions. is on pace to deliver similar rates as 2022 while exiting the year with significantly less activity as public companies continue to demonstrate discipline. Production growth in the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As you may know, I have been a DXC board member since 2020, having previously served as chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of the Compensation Committee. We're a public company. We're going to perform well as a public company. So, that's a process that we're in right now.

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Blackstone

MARCH 21, 2023

Multiple expansion, one of the byproducts of liquidity, was responsible for around 40% of the S&P 500’s historic 18% annual return from 2009 to 2020 4 , and declining interest rates drove outsized bond returns. Corporate Bond Index for “IG Bonds”, MSCI US REIT Index for “Public REITs”, Bloomberg U.S.

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The number of public companies you can invest in is less than half where it was 25 years ago,” said Freisner. Once a client advances past the basics, then they can dive deeper into more complex investments such as hedge funds, private equity or leveraged credit. In 2020, the U.S. Common Alternative Investments.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And instead we focus on those things we can control, namely process improvement, cost leadership, and operating leverage. In fact, we've been able to add nearly 140,000 customers year to date without increasing headcount, which I hope you all agree is a very impressive example of positive operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We believe we can grow this newly acquired business in line with our total company target growth of 15% in the long term by participating in strong market growth and gaining share. So, you know, we spent -- we did a very significant dividend in 2020 after passing $1 billion in cash. So, we think that can be one contributing factor.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

I'll note that this is the 14th consecutive quarter as a public company in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance. The bulk of the value is going to accrue to the applications that leverage the entire AI stack and deliver value to the business. We finished the quarter with 86.6 Silicon will get commoditized.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

March apartment starts with the weakest since April of 2020 and are down 53% from peak volume and falling. increase in overhead costs due to the timing of various public company fees, and a $0.01 And even though you have negative leverage, they're basically buying based on the pound. to $1.69, representing a $0.03

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

PagSeguro, a key Brazilian fintech client, already leveraging our consumer credit and prepaid and commercial prepaid products will expand in the commercial space with the launch of Visa Business Credit for their base of 28 million clients. This is also my last call as a public company CFO. Hopefully, we've delivered for you.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

is about broadening access to knowledge, capital and well-being by leveraging existing networks and protocols, and building trusted brands. We’ve seen valuations come way down for public companies. RITHOLTZ: So to put that into a little context, 2020, 2021, very founder-friendly deals. RITHOLTZ: Quite fascinating.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Rohan is a seasoned finance and operations leader with nearly two decades of experience at leading companies across financial services, cybersecurity and data infrastructure. Rohan joined Confluent pre-IPO in 2020. Thank you, and best of luck with your new role. Steffan Tomlinson -- Chief Financial Officer Thank you, Jay.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. RITHOLTZ: And how about Wind Energy or WNDY, W-N-D-Y, what sort of companies do you hold in that sort of EFT? 2020 was a huge year. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The past year has marked the most transformative in our 25-year history of being a public company as we released MicroStrategy ONE, MicroStrategy AI, MicroStrategy Cloud for Azure, AWS, and now the Google Cloud Platform, and continue to focus on growth in both cloud and AI plus BI. One, cash flow from software operations.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

To replicate our orthodontic success in other markets, I reorganized the company by market vertical when I arrived in 2020. It's no secret that I had hoped to move faster and at times it's been very frustrating given that we're both public companies and the benefits of our specific combination are so very clear.

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