The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The launch of Celebration Key next year, an exclusive destination from Carnival, is a major growth catalyst that should drive strong returns on investment for the company. The stock has fallen 86% from its 2021 peak, but now trades at a reasonable price-to-free cash flow multiple of 29. trillion global travel industry.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This link to the world of decentralized finance is why Chainlink's value skyrocketed in 2020 and 2021. Between March 2020 and May 2021, the price of Chainlink exploded from $2 to $50. Between March 2020 and May 2021, the price of Chainlink exploded from $2 to $50. That's a 25x return on investment in just over a year.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Requiring a 15% annualized return for five years, an investment needs to slightly outperform the market's historical annualized total return of roughly 11% to 12% to accomplish this feat. United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) and Murphy USA (NYSE: MUSA) are two companies that fit this simple billing.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2023

The logistics services provider has come a long way since it was spun off from XPO in 2021. Chief Investment Officer Mark Manduca said in an interview that the company's debt-to-EBITDA ratio would be within investment-grade range by the end of the year, potentially setting the company up for an acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2024

This can be scored using a company's return on invested capital. Since 1990, Verizon has returned an average of $1.07 It must balance expensive investments in upgrading and maintaining its network with price-conscious customers. back for each dollar it puts into the company. That's not great. It's a tough business.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

The business has since stabilized and is back to growth, but the stock seems to offer more upside opportunity, as it's still down 54% from its peak in 2021. The company has been investing to make the site more searchable and shoppable while leveraging the power of AI to improve usability and return on investment for advertisers.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

The number of monthly active users (MAUs) globally on the platform grew 11% year over year to an all-time high of 498 million in the fourth quarter -- the fastest it has grown since the first quarter of 2021. The company is leveraging next-generation AI to give better and more relevant recommendations to users.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

Those two metrics are now higher than pre-pandemic levels, but the stock still trades well off its previous all-time highs set in 2021. But that hasn't prevented the stock from surging 60% year to date, nearly doubling the return of the Nasdaq Composite. Big hotel companies can leverage these assets to gain market share.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The company strategically bids for advertisement space across a variety of online channels such as video, mobile, desktop, and connected television (CTV) to ensure that advertisements have the maximum impact on viewers, as well as a healthy return on investment for the advertisers.

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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. The driving force behind Copilot's adoption is the measurable return on investment it offers.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When we went public in July 2021, we laid out a plan showing rapid growth with increasing profitability over time. In 2021 and 2022, we delivered 55% and 45% year-over-year revenue growth, respectively, and had about breakeven adjusted EBITDA margins. For G&A, we expect to continue to get operating leverage as we scale.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

We will also offer some perspective on our strengthened balance sheet position with the recent divestiture of one of our noncore businesses, which underscores our focused product strategy and our commitment to driving a strong return on invested capital. We acquired the business in 2021 for a total consideration of approximately 14.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If we turn to Slide 5, let me speak to the efficiency from a cost and return perspective. We have shown these KPIs in the past but wanted to highlight the power and operating leverage, like what has created both from an Asian productivity and scaling perspective.

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H.I.G. Growth Partners

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Capital, is pleased to announce that it led a $72 million investment in ProsperOps (“ProsperOps” or the “Company”), an autonomous cloud cost optimization platform. ProsperOps delivers best-in-class return on investment on cloud spend, unlocking maximum value and savings outcomes for companies building in the cloud. About H.I.G.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And following the Fitch upgrade in July, our balance sheet now has two investment-grade ratings and our dividend yield is in line with the S&P 500. Around the world, we're continuing to develop our JV partnerships and leveraging our strengths. Gross leverage ended the quarter at 2.9 impact from the CrowdStrike-caused outage.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Customers globally continue to ask for our help leveraging the power of AI and automation to transform their businesses, and it's is becoming more clear to customers that AI is about automation. There are a few things I find more satisfying than seeing customers leverage our automation platform to flourish and succeed.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Looking forward, we expect to continue to actively repurchase our shares in the fourth quarter, further leveraging our remaining repurchase capacity, which stands at $5.6 We will leverage Dr. Carlton's study as we continue to engage in fact-based discussions about these critical issues.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

Within our merchandising, we'll continue to invest in our industry-leading owned brand portfolio, along with the expansion of key national brand partnerships, like Ulta Beauty, Levi's, Apple, and Disney. These areas have always been a source of strength, and we want to ensure we continue to differentiate our experience from our competitors.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

To bring awareness to our innovation and product offerings, our marketing and creative teams ramped up our investments in social influencers, which delivered meaningful engagement and strong growth from new younger consumers. million and leveraged 250 basis points to 44.3% Today, we reported full year 2023 net sales of 646.7

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a result of their efforts, ITW delivered record financial performance in 2023 with solid organic growth of 2% on top of 12% growth in both 2021 and 2022, best-in-class margins of more than 25%, and after-tax return on invested capital of more than 30%. So, we've got some volume leverage at that 2% to 4% revenue growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our revenue growth management execution capabilities give us a distinct advantage, and we are leveraging these capabilities to ensure we have the right product in the right package in the right channel and at the right price points to meet consumers where they are. Leveraging data to drive better decision-making is key to improving execution.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased approximately 1% compared to the second quarter of last year. These improvements are exactly what we set out to achieve with this wage investment. In addition to investing in our associates, we must also leverage technology to further simplify both the associate and customer experience.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

In closing, our agreement with Marriott, ongoing investments into our operations and a fantastic sports entertainment backdrop in Las Vegas position us well to create operating leverage by growing our EBITDAR against our fixed rent escalators. With that, I'll turn this over to Jonathan for more detail on the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

To date, they have achieved a return on investment of over $250 million. After starting their automation journey in 2021 with core RPA, they adopted the full UiPath platform as they work to consolidate their automation program to one end-to-end solution. A great example is Johnson Controls.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

is to invest in our network. Our business has historically generated a high return on invested capital. Our net debt leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was 2.9 This was an improvement from three times at year-end 2023, and we expect to further reduce our leverage this year. The second pillar of LTL 2.0

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Asit, what's the return on investment of those save 50 minutes? Now, I think the return on investment is going to be coming from a surprising place. Important because Crocs purchased this in 2021 for about two billion in cash in 450 million in stock. Asit Sharma: That is such an interesting question.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Adjusted gross margin expanded 290 basis points in Q1, adding to our strong track record in this space and freeing up resources to invest in the brand activation plans I described earlier. In parallel, we are taking action to structurally change our cost base, leveraging the unique opportunity we have in front of us as we exit TSAs.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

We generated free cash flow of $2 billion while investing 5.3 billion back into the business, and we improved our leverage by two full turns and reinstated our quarterly dividend. Return on invested capital was 13.4%, a 5-point improvement from 2022. Our leverage ratio improved two terms to finish the year at three times.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

But the CEO when all these declines were going on, took over in 2021. If Duolingo can get you to subscribe to premium off its own ads, that's a light-years better return on investment than any other random ad it could place. They just had a new CEO take over. Since then had really been trying to reposition the portfolio.

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Steve Sanduski

MAY 16, 2023

But organic growth for financial advisors, on average, has been flat for the five years ending 2021— despite being in a big bull market. ROL stands for Return on Life. Since then, we’ve trained hundreds of advisors from 13 countries on how to shift from a return on investment focus to a Return on Life focus.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

I'm very, very proud of our progress to date, and I'm confident that we're going to continue to leverage our core strengths to achieve our potential. We are on an exciting path and are well-positioned to deliver durable growth and sustainable shareholder returns. We are making the company better, stronger, and faster. billion and 1.7

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

The segment delivered record system sales for the second consecutive quarter, as well as the highest revenue and operating margin since the fourth quarter of fiscal-year 2021. New stores are bringing attractive unit economics for the business while we benefit from strong growth in returns on invested capital in these markets.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

It represents a critical step in continuing the transformation of our business, enabling us to improve collaboration and alignment and further leverage synergies across our integrated businesses. The work is delivering exceptional results, driving industry-leading returns on investments and growth in earnings and cash flow.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2023

million, an increase of 29% from the prior quarter, producing an annualized return on invested capital of 19.1%. We have a clear path toward executing on a broad commercial strategy, one that leverages a unique portfolio of reinforcement solutions to deliver more value to project owners, general contractors, and project engineers.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In Q3, comparable beauty sales in the shops opened in 2021 and 2022 increased more than 30% to last year. We remain committed to returning our balance sheet to its historical strength with a long-term objective of managing to 2.5 times leverage level. We also remain committed to returning capital to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

at the end of 2021. Now that we've completed our two spinoffs, we have more opportunities to invest in driving long-term growth in LTL, a business that generates a high return on invested capital. We're also continuing to make strategic investments in our network to capitalize on upturns in demand. years from 5.9

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We also continue to open new restaurants in a balanced manner and make sure our portfolio is optimized to continue driving the best return for our shareholders. At the same time, we continue to expand margins through sales leverage and productivity and savings initiatives. Todd Brooks -- The Benchmark Company -- Analyst OK.

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