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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) has disappointed a lot of investors since it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in April 2022. It might be a promising speculative play for long-term investors, but its high valuation, high leverage, and persistent losses could limit its near-term gains.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

In October 2022, executives went through the entire Q3 call without saying the word "dividend." Also, the healthcare REIT's leverage as measured by the adjusted net debt to transaction-adjusted annualized EBITDAre (earnings before interest, income taxes, and depreciation and amortization for real estate) increased in Q2.

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MARCH 25, 2024

on April 6, 2022. The company claimed it could deliver a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%, taking revenue from $140 million in 2020 to $388 million in 2023 while expanding its gross margin from 30% to 50% and keeping its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins in the high teens.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Meta Platforms After a disastrous performance in 2022, Meta Platforms made a major comeback in 2023, with shares rising by nearly 182.5% Meta is also leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to strengthen all of its business offerings--improving ad targeting, content discovery, user engagement, and monetization. so far this year.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Its operating loss in Q1 2022 was a whopping $1.5 In fact, management thinks that Carnival will produce adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of $4 billion (at the midpoint) this fiscal year. Ford Shares of Ford (NYSE: F) are 44% off their all-time high from early 2022.

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MAY 11, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 Enterprise ended the quarter with leverage of 3x. It defines leverage as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. billion in 2022.

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JULY 21, 2023

After a difficult 2022, this video streaming specialist's stock seems to be finally on the road to recovery, with shares gaining by 90% so far this year. According to Ark's valuation model, published in July 2022, Roku's shares can be worth $605 by 2026 (base case). When it comes to smart TV operating systems in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Once discretionary cash flow turned positive, distribution growth sped up in 2022. billion in 2022. Leverage has also been reduced, with debt-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) at roughly 3.2 To be fair, capital spending has fallen. It peaked at $4.2

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MARCH 2, 2024

This is a huge market opportunity that Dutch Bros is leveraging to grow its business quickly, and these new stores alone will generate higher revenue for the foreseeable future. million in Q4 2022 to $3.8 million in Q4 2022 to $3.8 Profits have been improving Though Dutch Bros' net loss increased from $2.8

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AUGUST 6, 2023

Second, Apple spends a fortune each year on share repurchases, including $90 billion in its fiscal-year 2022 and $38 billion during the first half of its fiscal-year 2023. For comparison, Kroger's net leverage ratio at the end of its fiscal first quarter 2023 was a much-healthier 1.3 over the past decade. times EBITDA. times EBITDA.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Its business recovered in 2022 and 2023 as the pandemic diminished and people started traveling again, but its stock has still lost about a quarter of its value over the past three years. billion in fiscal 2022 and just $26 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2023. That leverage gives Carnival a high debt-to-equity ratio of 4.6.

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JULY 28, 2023

Investors feared these factors would significantly dent its revenue growth in 2022, contributing heavily to the company's stock price decline last year. Since the global economy is not out of the woods yet, many of the concerns that hurt the stock in 2022 persist in 2023. This ratio measures a company's financial leverage.

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MAY 14, 2024

billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and $1.2 Sirius XM is also starting to pay down its long-term debt since that bearish leverage peaked in 2022. It has posted an annual profit every year since 2010. The model works. It expects to generate $2.7

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JANUARY 10, 2024

After its 2022 merger with Kirkland Lake Gold and its acquisition of Yamana's Canadian assets, Agnico has emerged as a leading producer of gold -- and profits. in net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). Currently, investors can grab shares of Agnico Eagle from the bargain bin.

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JULY 22, 2023

In 2022, the company sold 413,000 cars, or more than nine times the 44,000 it sold just five years earlier in 2017. By using data, technology, and its massive physical footprint of inspection centers, Carvana found a way to provide a substantially better consumer experience to the used car industry. Unsurprisingly, revenue has soared as well.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

The chart below shows how each company raised full-year guidance on every earnings call since 2021 and beat the third-quarter guidance in the full-year results in 2021 and 2022. However, a crucial part of being an industrial conglomerate is using cash flow and financial leverage to acquire or internally develop new businesses.

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MARCH 3, 2024

As a result, its net income declined every year through 2022, when it posted a $541 million loss. Block has reorganized its Square team and is taking steps to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help sellers manage more of their business and grow their customer base.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The last highly profitable quarter Paramount's film studios reported was the second quarter of 2022, thanks to smash hit Top Gun: Maverick. OIBDA = operating income before depreciation and amortization. See, the company's film arm isn't always profitable, and even when it is, it's not a huge moneymaker. Data source: Paramount Global.

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JULY 18, 2024

It locks in the spreads with hedges and then uses leverage to increase its returns. The value of AGNC's holdings not surprisingly tumbled as reflected in the nearly -50% decline in tangible book value AGNC saw from the start of 2022 until the end of 2023. Image source: Getty Images. at the end of September 2023 to $8.84

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

The company is paying about 10 times estimated 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) for these assets. Williams also made three bolt-on deals in 2022 (MountainWest, Nortex, and Trace Midstream). times leverage ratio , down significantly from 4.8 billion to $6.8 times in 2018.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Metric Q3 2022 Q3 2023 Change Revenue $199 million $265 million 33% Locations 641 794 24% Same-store sales growth 1.7% According to management's latest guidance, Dutch Bros is expected to achieve between $150 million and $155 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) for 2023.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

It also expects full-year adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) growth of 4%, up from its earlier forecast of at least 3%. Its 5% growth in adjusted operating income, reflecting the effect of cost cuts and leverage in the mobility business, qualifies as a victory for the long-suffering stock.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to a report issued last year by the Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, dividend-paying companies have generated an annualized return of 9.18% over the past half-century (1973-2022). Since March 31, 2022, AT&T's net debt has declined from $169 billion to $128.9 yield is safe.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Since the start of 2022, Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) has increased its distribution every quarter. Approximately 90% of Energy Transfer's 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) is projected to come from fee-based activities. However, everything has not always been smooth for the company.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. In fact, we built our servicing platform to be cloud-native from the start, which is why we were able to sell the IP to Sagent in early 2022 for a 20% interest in their firm. rate and a 30-year to 40-year amortization.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Unity only expects its revenue to rise 5% to 9% on a pro forma basis (including ironSource) this year, but its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) are quickly rising. between 2022 and 2030 as more companies replace their workers with these software robots.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Its leveraged exposure to oil production has pushed down Occidental's share price to levels it hasn't seen since the beginning of 2022. Occidental's current share price of about $50 gives it an enterprise-value -to- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) multiple of just 5.3.

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JULY 8, 2023

After a disappointing year for stocks in 2022, the markets have rebounded this year. It reported a better-than-expected adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) profit of $681 million, though it's still losing money on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis. billion-$4.25

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APRIL 12, 2024

AT&T, on the other hand, cut its dividend nearly in half in 2022, taking it down from $0.52. The other thing that can impact dividend payouts is debt and leverage. In order to sustain dividends, companies need to keep their leverage within a reasonable range. Its year-end leverage was 3 times.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

AT&T's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) rose 3.4% billion year over year , helping reduce its leverage ratio from 2.99 With its free cash flow rising and its leverage ratio falling, AT&T's high-yielding dividend is growing safer. That's enabling the company to repay debt.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Strip away those one-time items, and Verizon posted a profit for the period and full year, albeit at a lower rate compared to 2022. billion less than in 2022. That enabled it to reduce its leverage ratio from 2.7 times at the end of 2022 to 2.6 While Verizon's revenue and earnings were lower, its cash flow improved.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Consumer Revenue Growth 1.4% (2.8%) 7.6% Verizon's wireless retail churn rate of 1.62% in the first nine months of 2024 also represented an improvement from its churn rate of 1.67% in 2023 and 1.63% in 2022. Here's how those two core businesses fared over the past five years. in 2023 and 40.2%

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JANUARY 22, 2024

It does this by investing in debt or equity to companies with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) between $10 million and $250 million. According to data from PitchBook, banks went from around a 70% share of the middle market direct lending market in 1994 to around 25% in 2022.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in 2023. That was almost 9% above 2022's total. times leverage ratio , well below the 4 times level its stable business can support. MPLX's strong coverage and leverage ratios put its high-yielding payout on a very firm foundation.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

That rising leverage made Carnival a risky stock to hold as interest rates rose, and its stock sank to a 30-year low of $6.38 Carnival's exposure to macro headwinds and high leverage still make it a tough stock to love, but I believe it has a viable path toward generating a 10-bagger gain within the next 20 years. per share on Oct.

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JUNE 23, 2024

Meanwhile, the company ended the first quarter with 3 times leverage, which it defines as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). This has come down from the over 4 times leverage it was at in 2017. billion to $3.75

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AUGUST 14, 2023

He said that the CRO is "positioned to make rapid progress against our goals and strategies, leveraging our customer relationships to drive revenue growth and margin expansion in an attractive clinical services market." The lower end of the range represents a 2% decline from 2022. and 37% in full-year 2023.

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