The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Visa's rival Mastercard (NYSE: MA) uses the same low-risk business model, but American Express (NYSE: AXP) issues its own cards and takes on those liabilities. That simpler business model makes Visa more appealing than its more leveraged financial peers. compared to a ratio of 4.7 for Mastercard and a much higher ratio of 8.2

Financial Institutions 130

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Rivian gained a lot of attention when it went public in November 2021 because it was already ramping up its production, it was backed by Amazon and Ford Motor Company , and the bulls were aggressively bidding growth and meme stocks to astronomical valuations. In 2021, it produced 1,015 vehicles. At its all-time high of $172.01

Initial Public Offering 130

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Blackstone

AUGUST 8, 2024

Private capital financed 86% of LBO transactions in 2023, up from 65% in 2021. These investors are facilitating the movement of assets from bank balance sheets, which are levered and funded by short-duration deposits, to the end accountholders, who want to hold these assets for life against their long-duration liabilities.

Financing 121

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Shares of the fitness equipment and related tech company are down an incredible 97% from their early 2021 peak. Peloton's top line has been steadily sinking since 2021, and though its losses are now shrinking, they're shrinking mostly because Peloton's business is shrinking (thus crimping the company's capacity to suffer losses).

Prospects 147

Prospects Debt Liabilities Leveraging 147

The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

This ratio measures a company's financial leverage. When a company shows a negative D/E ratio, its liabilities exceed its assets -- a sign of potential problems. The company has maintained excellent double-digit revenue growth since it went public in March 2021, as seen in the chart below.

Debt 245

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

Strengthening its financial foundation American Tower's telecom tower business in India has been more of a liability in recent years. It had gotten its leverage ratio down to 5x at the end of the third quarter, putting it at the top end of its 3x-5x target range. Falling leverage will put the REIT's 3.2%-yielding

Asset Management 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Our LTC segment reported an adjusted operating loss of $29 million in the second quarter, driven by a liability remeasurement loss. We are very pleased with Enact's total shareholder return of 104% as of July 30th, since its IPO in 2021. We also expect a liability remeasurement loss from actual-to-expected experience for the full year.

Liabilities 130

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

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. Leverage provides the opportunity to generate higher returns if the price increases. billion in current market value, which are held at MacroStrategy.

Leveraging 246

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Pillar 3 centered on reducing complexity and simplifying our organizational structure with an emphasis on client engagement, quality, automation, and operating leverage. We also introduced our next-generation mellowNow digital underwriting engine and brought our servicing business in-house. trillion, which is up from a forecast of $1.8

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On the bright side, analysts still expect it to grow its annual revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 108% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023 -- which surpasses its pre-merger target CAGR of 87%. It also ended its latest quarter with $948 million in total liabilities and just $255 million in cash and equivalents.

Mergers and Acquisitions 130

Mergers and Acquisitions Enterprise Values Earnings Before Interest Amortization 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Economic leverage ticked down slightly to 5.7 This new partnership in conjunction with our existing recapture agreements should allow Annaly to leverage best-in-class industry partners without taking on the operational leverage and earnings cyclicality of an originator. And our leverage was down a touch heading into the quarter.

Capital 130

Capital Leveraging Collateral Assets 130

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. 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.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Shareholders Capital Debt 130

Cobalt

APRIL 19, 2024

The next few months we will be testing out expand ing beyond our in-app Cobalt Analytics to leverage the dataset capabilities out of the platform. Looking to Q3 2021 , we see a rapid increase in investment level, with no clear new mean level of support. This changes as we move forward in the chart.

Legal 52

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Halfway through the year, we feel great about our progress against these goals and are happy to report our fourth consecutive quarter of improving active customer growth, our highest quarterly e-commerce growth since Q1 of 2021 and progress on our insurance expansion which we will speak to shortly. million or 11% of revenue to $22.4

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Returns Depreciation Liabilities 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

Pillar three calls for reducing complexity and simplifying our organization structure with an emphasis on driving client engagement, quality, automation, and operating leverage. It was a lower coupon originations largely from 2020 and 2021 vintages. But I think also the automation to pick up the operating leverage associated with that.

Debt 130

Debt Leveraging Resale Liabilities 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They will leverage ZoomInfo to better understand and expand their total addressable market in their SMB and midmarket segments to identify high propensity to buy accounts and to build dynamic audiences for digital activation. Our net leverage ratio is 2.3 We estimate that this will save us more than $100 million going forward.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Accounting Assets Liabilities 130

Blackstone

JULY 31, 2023

At a Glance US economy shows surprising resilience in 2023 Reduced leverage lengthens monetary policy effects’ lag Creative approaches to asset allocation amid uncertainties The resilience of the US economy is unquestionably one of 2023’s big surprises. link] Source: US Census Bureau, American Housing Survey 2021.

Leveraging 52

Leveraging Debt Taxes Assets 52

The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

For example, in software, our broad suite of automation products like Apptio and watsonx Orchestrate are leveraging AI and we expect to do the same with HashiCorp once the acquisition is complete. The last 12 months of AI pilots has made it clear that sustained value from AI requires truly leveraging enterprise data.

Consultants 243

Consultants Consulting Leveraging Taxes 243

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These results allowed us to surpass the Rule of 40 this quarter, the first time since early 2021. It means that we are going to see more leverage from our cost structure also next year. So by definition, the leverage in partners the next year is going to be higher than self creators. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Education Liabilities Investors 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Across the world, we're continuing to win in the market by leveraging our scale and relying on our local expertise of our bottling partners. Our balance sheet remains strong and our net debt leverage of 1.6 I had a question as it pertains to the Fairlife liability. This payment has grown as Fairlife has outperformed.

Liabilities 130

Liabilities Banks Leveraging Portfolios 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Free cash flow was up 24% year on year to $444 million, the highest since the first quarter of 2021. Barrick's holistic approach to our business encompasses managing the many mine closure liabilities we have accumulated along the way. But that really shows you the leverage on the costs in PV, which is one of our low-cost producers.

Mergers and Acquisitions 130

Mergers and Acquisitions Liabilities Assets Capital 130

The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

First, our Senior Medicare Advantage business continues to leverage the foundational changes we made more than two years ago. Our operating expense per policy remains nearly 30% below the levels from our 2021 vintage driven primarily by the shift away from Flex agents. Ryan Clement -- Chief Financial Officer Yeah.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Debt Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As highlighted on Slide 11 of the investor presentation, Fortinet continued to be the only vendor to leverage a single operating system for the U.S., Their journey begins with Fortinet firewalls and expand to leverage our FortiLink technology to manage Fortinet switches and access points. So we are the No. We're also the No.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Taxes Accounting Financing 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One, we plan to increase our marketing and brand spend on a full-year basis for the first time since 2021. Two, we expect to drive positive sustained e-com growth also for the first time since 2021. As just discussed, the channel will benefit from our first full-year increase in marketing spend since 2021.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Accounting Depreciation Education 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

launched hand-breaded Original Recipe chicken nuggets to expand its off-the-bone chicken offerings, leveraging the learnings from our significant off-the-bone business at KFC international. The global Taco Tuesday campaign, which launched in June and will continue through the third quarter, leverages Taco Bell's U.S.

Leveraging 188

Leveraging Capital Shareholders Debt 188

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We've invested -- we've done increasing investments in areas that are -- we know are high-growth areas, and we've still been able to generate over $1 billion of spending leverage over the last five years. So that's where that $1 billion of spending leverage comes, right? But it's not a cookie-cutter approach, David.

Liabilities 130

Liabilities Portfolios Leveraging Depreciation 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We saw revenue growth and positive operating leverage for the firm and across all five businesses. Overall revenues grew by 3% ex-divestitures, with each of our core businesses delivering growth and positive operating leverage. Services generated positive operating leverage and delivered net income of approximately $1.7

Banks 130

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 19, 2024

billion of insurance earned premiums is the highest since our IPO, and we see a long runway ahead as we leverage synergies with our auto finance team. Ally bank depositors are highly engaged with more than 1 million consumers, leveraging core product features across deposits and invest. billion of retail auto loans within the quarter.

Financing 130

Financing Finance Taxes Banks 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In parallel to our in-network insurance initiatives, we continue to leverage our Universal Eligibility Check tool to help customers easily locate their in-network insurance coverage and average out-of-network benefits across channels. Within adjusted SG&A, Marketing spend increased from $19.7 million or 11.6% of revenue to $23.7

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Depreciation Returns Liabilities 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The first was to pay down our debt as fast as we could as this would lower our interest payments and increase our available borrowings, would also give us the financial flexibility we had historically enjoyed given our past low debt leverage ratios. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

Debt 240

Debt Capital Leveraging Prospects 240

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per-share basis. Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the third quarter of 2024.

Capital 130

Capital Asset Management Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Debt 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

And by leveraging generative AI, we can deliver great client experiences at scale by handling more interactions and keeping more clients engaged with better automation. Recent data shows that clients using chat have conversion rates three times higher compared to those who didn't leverage chat.

Companies 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

In Q1, our e-commerce channel continued to improve, growing 2% year over year and contributing to overall top-line growth and fixed-cost leverage. As expected, we saw stability and modest leverage within the more fixed portion of our cost of goods, including retail occupancy as we've continued to scale our store base. year over year.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Returns Depreciation Investing 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

We are well-positioned to drive growth for HashiCorp by leveraging IBM's enterprise incumbency and global reach. We have leveraged watsonx to build AI assistance through our software portfolio. And finally, we are seeing our infrastructure segment play a larger role as clients leverage their hardware investments in their AI strategies.

Consultants 130

Consultants Consulting Leveraging Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

billion, and we achieved significant operating leverage on that growth delivering a 20% increase in adjusted EBITDA to $333 million. The majority of these sites are in markets where we want to build density and leverage our existing teams, each new service center helps our network operate more efficiently. times last quarter and 2.5

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Accounting Capital Companies 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

iShares' fixed-income ETF assets now stand at over $1 trillion, nearly 40% higher than at year-end 2021. This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. We are effectively leveraging our technology, our scale, and our global footprint to deliver profitable growth. And Aladdin. Finally, fixed income.

Assets 130

Assets Leveraging Mergers and Acquisitions Capital 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Good afternoon, and welcome to RingCentral's third quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Through this partnership, RingCX customers will be able to leverage Verint's leading WEM and CX automation solutions, which complement RingCentral's native AI capabilities. We are also leveraging our large GSP network to grow internationally.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Leveraging Accounting Debt 130