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MARCH 14, 2025

Anthony Schiavone: Kirsten Lynch became CEO in November 2021, so she's been in the role for about three-in-a-half years. But as a shareholder myself, I've really been disappointed with the capital allocation and specifically taking on debt to repurchase shares at much higher prices than where the stock trade's at today.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Founded in 2002, Qualtrics provides software that helps companies gather data and measure how their customers experience their products. billion in equity and $1 billion in debt. Often, any such deal to take a public company private would require the go-ahead from a multitude of investors.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

Public companies that pay a regular dividend are almost always time-tested, have clear long-term growth outlooks, and most importantly are profitable on a recurring basis. It's no secret that Occidental buried itself in debt when it acquired Anadarko in 2019. billion in net debt, which works out to a net-debt ratio of just 7%.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2024

First, rising interest rates made the prospect of future debt-financed acquisitions less appealing. It also meant refinancing the company's existing debt could be costlier. Perhaps even more important is the surge in broadband net additions Verizon has observed following its purchase of mid-band spectrum in 2021.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

if you have $300 available that isn't needed to pay monthly bills, reduce short-term debt, or bolster an emergency fund, these three Berkshire-owned stocks may be worth a closer look. Amazon Most people are aware of Amazon 's (NASDAQ: AMZN) e-commerce site because that is where the company got its start more than two decades ago.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

If you have $5,000 available to invest that isn't needed to reduce short-term debt or build an emergency fund, here are three tech stocks that are great long-term options. Apple It seems cliche to start with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , but you don't become the world's most valuable public company for no reason. billion FY 2021 $68.4

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

Shares in Peloton soared by as much as 18% on Tuesday after CNBC reported that several private equity firms are cons idering a buyout of the connected fitness company, which is looking to refinance its debt and return to growth after 13 consecutive quarters of losses. Read more: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

It acquired buy-now-pay-later company Afterpay in 2021, and just recently rolled out Afterpay on the massively successful Cash App card. In the fourth quarter, revenue grew 17% year-over-year and the company produced positive adjusted EBITDA for the first time as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

For all intents and purposes, most investors seek out companies enacting forward-stock splits. A public company with a high-flying stock often possesses well-defined competitive advantages and has, in many instances, out-innovated their competition.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

CROX Price to Free Cash Flow data by YCharts One concern for Crocs is its net debt (total debt minus cash and cash equivalents) in a high-interest rate environment. As a result, the company's net debt skyrocketed from roughly $249 million to $2.7 billion in net debt by its third quarter of 2021.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of JPMorgan Chase , found that companies initiating and growing their dividends delivered a 9.5% on an annualized basis for nonpaying public companies over the same stretch. as of 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

We are a publicly traded operating company committed to the continued development of the bitcoin network through our activities in the financial markets, advocacy, and technology innovation. Being an operating company, our software technology business remains our core revenue and cash flow generator. Debt financing.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2024

Credit card debt topped $1.12 With potentially lower interest rates coming over the next year, consumers could look to personal lenders to consolidate debt balances, which could be a huge opportunity for Upstart. For a company like Upstart, the broader market and lending conditions greatly affect its bottom line.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Shares in Peloton soared by as much as 18% on Tuesday after CNBC reported that several private equity firms are considering a buyout of the connected fitness company, which is looking to refinance its debt and return to growth after 13 consecutive quarters of losses.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Following the recent update, Hartford Funds found that non-paying public companies averaged a 4.27% annual return over the prior half-century, and were 18% more volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. The company closed out the March quarter with $132.8 billion in total debt. Image source: Getty Images. In the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 21, 2024

In 2021, HEYDUDE generated around $600 million in annual revenue. This is a huge opportunity for Crocs There have been more devastating failed acquisitions than I can count among public companies during the last several years. Crocs acquired the HEYDUDE brand in February 2022 for $2.5 Therefore, it's grown under Crocs' umbrella.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

2018: 18% 2019: 43% 2020: 90% 2021: 111% 2022: 73% 2023: 76% (through the first nine months) Image source: Getty Images. All 21 major analysts following the company expect it to post its first profitable quarter as a public company here in the seasonally potent fourth quarter. Business is slowing.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The company's balance sheet is pristine. million in cash and cash equivalents and no long-term debt. This is super strong, particularly for a relatively newly public company (it held its initial public offering in July 2021) that spends heavily on research and development. Free cash flow was $47.7

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The company generates free cash flow ($173 million over the past four quarters), has zero debt, and has $2 billion in cash on its balance sheet. Roku is a no-brainer on this drop If you value the stock based on Roku's revenue, it's trading near its lowest valuation as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Revenue has increased only 9% in the company's lifetime as a public company since March 2021, and what makes it even riskier is that it's low on cash. It had $226 million as of the end of the third quarter and $481 million in available funds, and net debt of $2.3 times trailing-12-month sales.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) went public at the perfect time. The venture capital and initial public offering (IPO) markets were flush with cash. 10, 2021, Rivian had its IPO, shooting up to a staggering intraday high of $179.47 billion in 2021. billion in long-term debt. And on Nov. per share on Nov.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

The initial public offering (IPO) market has been mostly quiet over the past year after a record amount of IPOs in 2021, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) bust last year, and a bear market. What stood out in the report, its first as a public company, is the improved profitability. Net income was $30.0

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 24, 2024

Streaming company Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) has been a brutal hold for investors since the stock peaked in 2021. The company must progress in key areas to win back investors, but the stock's decline dramatically overstates the negatives and gives little to no credit for what the business has accomplished in the past few years.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 11, 2024

The company's Q1 free cash flow (FCF) of $101.3 Total liabilities were $818 million with no debt. For example, the company could find an acquisition that can help it reignite sales growth or invest in areas of its business, such as strengthening its sales approach, which it intends to do. Total assets were $2.8 billion with $1.1

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The plant-based meat stock hit a peak in early 2021 but has since been in a major downward trend, with shares falling 94% in the last three years. After flooding the market with innovative plant-based meat products, Beyond Meat and other fake meat companies have seen customer demand dry up.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Shares of fast-moving running shoe upstart On Holding (NYSE: ONON) had a solid 2023, rallying some 80% with just a couple of weeks to go in the year and steadily clawing their way back to their price at the initial public offering (IPO) in late 2021. billion), a 57% year-over-year increase, and up 152% from the same period in 2021.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Soho House's stock price has languished since the company went public in 2021. Glasshouse also highlighted Soho House's rising debt levels, arguing that the company will need to continue diluting existing investors to raise capital and stay afloat. Is Soho the next WeWork? Its total membership count increased 20.8%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

Its sales and cash flow have risen steadily since it went public in 2021 (see chart below). billion in cash and investments against zero long-term debt. 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

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Roku lucratively rewarded shareholders from its initial public offering (IPO) through 2021 but has lost 85% of its value since peaking in the 2021 stock market bubble. The company is not generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP) profitable yet, but it generates free cash flow and has $2.1 times revenue.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

Ricky Mulvey: It's not easy being a public company. Ricky Mulvey: In between me inviting you and you coming on the show, a Canadian tech company went private. You think Nuvei is just real tired of being a public company these days? How much you spend, how much debt you take on, how much insurance you get.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

The COVID-19 crash saw the major indexes plummet into bear market territory in a matter of weeks, while the 2021 bull market sent Wall Street soaring to new heights. The company closed out June with $53.4 billion in long-term debt. billion the company has generated in net cash from operating activities since 2023 began.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

In 2021, they announced this plan to redevelop it. They're going to put this giant 900 foot office building on top of and in 2021, the office buildings. They couldn't build things fast enough to really satisfy the debt there. For a company like this to be trading below its book value, it's odd. What do you think?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As a result, we've developed a new descriptor for what we are, which is the world's first and largest bitcoin treasury company, the acronym being, coincidentally, BTC. We are a publicly traded company that has adopted bitcoin as our primary treasury reserve asset. One, debt financing. So what does this mean? We have $4.3

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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. And three, debt financing. We have issued $3.1

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

data center REIT as a well-positioned but poorly trading public company with tremendous long-term potential. Our BREIT, BIP Infrastructure, and BPP perpetual strategies acquired the company for $10 billion in 2021, and its lease capacity has already grown sixfold in less than three years. and 17% for the LTM period.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

We intend to allocate the cash proceeds in a balanced manner with significant portions being used to repay debt and for returning capital to shareholders. This is the highest operating income margin achieved by the Gaming and Digital segment, since providing long-term targets at the November 2021, Investor Day. Liquidity of $1.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

and welcome to the Digital Realty third-quarter 2021 earnings conference call. I would now like to turn the call over to Jordan Sadler, Digital Realty's senior vice president of public and private investor relations. On the debt side, we paid off $250 million gilts in July and added an EUR 850 million green bond in September.

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