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MARCH 1, 2024

Restaurant-level profit margin, a key industry metric, improved from 11% to 16%, and Sweetgreen's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) loss narrowed from $17.9 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. million to $1.8 per share to $0.24

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MAY 16, 2024

The company's financial services segment outperformed with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) that soared 50.3% A buy now Sea Limited reported deeply negative free cash flow in 2022, but this figure has rocketed to more than $2 billion over the past 12 months. trailing free cash flow.

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MARCH 7, 2024

on April 13, 2022. It predicted its gross margin would expand from 30% to 50% as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin would only dip slightly from 18% to 16%. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Its stock opened at $9.84

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JULY 3, 2024

Palantir's revenue rose 24% in 2022 and 17% to $2.2 Symbotic's revenue surged 136% in 2022 and 98% to $1.18 SentinelOne's annual revenue more than doubled in fiscal 2021, 2022, and 2023 (which ended last January). The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In its pre-merger presentation in 2020, it claimed it could ship 600 battery-powered electric trucks (BEVs) in 2021, ship 1,200 BEVs in 2022, and ship 3,500 BEVs in 2023. It only shipped 131 BEVs in 2022 and 79 BEVs in 2023 before a series of battery fires forced it to recall most of those vehicles. million $35.8 million) ($784.2

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MARCH 17, 2024

The industry's long-term issue comes down to its inability to generate a return on capital necessary to cover its cost of capital. Delta Air Lines 2022 2023 Long-Term Target Return on invested capital 8.40% 13.40% Mid-teens Weighted average cost of capital 8% 8% 8% Data source: Delta Air Lines. billion at the end of 2022 to $29.2

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MARCH 17, 2024

Nvidia was one of SoundHound's earliest backers prior to its public debut in 2022, and it recently made another investment in the company. SoundHound went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in 2022. Its revenue rose 47% in both 2022 and 2023, and analysts expect its revenue to rise 51% to $69.5

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MAY 11, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 billion in 2022. Enterprise has averaged about a 13% return on invested capital over the past five years. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on April 28, 2022. During its pre-merger presentation, SoundHound predicted that its revenue would rise from $13 million in 2020 to $20 million in 2021, and then grow to $28 million in 2022. and rallied to an all-time high of $14.98

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MARCH 20, 2024

Management's decision to slash the dividend in 2022 must have been tough, but it's proving to have been the right move. That sets a low bar for solid investment returns when you factor in the stock's starting 6.5% Still, 3% earnings growth plus that dividend is nearly 10% total returns annually. dividend yield.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, Roku's 357% return since its IPO would still have beaten the S&P 500 's 129% rally during the same period. Roku's numbers of active accounts and streaming hours have risen constantly since its IPO, but its average revenue per user (APRU) peaked in 2022 and fell in 2023. Rising interest rates also squeezed its valuations.

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MAY 11, 2024

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is the widely followed measure of inflation, hit a 40-year high of 8% in 2022. Its business struggled since 2022, and its stock is currently trading 93% below its all-time high. Redfin close that business at the end of 2022 as interest rates began to soar, leaving a large hole in its revenue base.

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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. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than tripled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*.

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APRIL 20, 2024

AT&T If you're looking for stocks that can grow their high-yield dividends, you might have overlooked AT&T because it reduced its dividend payout by 47% in 2022 to compensate for the spinoff of its media assets. times adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) last year, from 3.19

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JULY 14, 2024

Metric 2021 2022 2023 Revenue (estimated) $182 million $277 million $388 million Revenue (actual) $146 million $155 million $155 million Gross margin (estimated) 40% 43% 50% Gross margin (actual) 23% 28% 26% Data source: BigBear.ai. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. wasn’t one of them.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its business recovered throughout 2021 but slowed again in 2022 after it lapped its post-pandemic recovery. Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 Trips Growth (YOY) 28% (27%) 27% 19% 24% Gross Bookings Growth (YOY) 28% (11%) 56% 19% 18% Revenue Growth (YOY) 37% (14%) 57% 49% 18% Data source: Uber Technologies. trillion by 2043.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Medical Properties' valuation looks dirt cheap Medical Properties Trust struggled to win over investors not just this year but in 2022 as well. And that's after falling 53% in 2022. Since the start of 2022, shares of MPT are down 80%. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Listed in June 2022, Symbotic grew leaps and bounds last year. By fiscal 2023 Q4, Symbotic had posted its first positive adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

It also declared its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) would turn positive by 2027. Back in its pre-merger presentation, it predicted it would post adjusted EBITDA losses of $102 million in 2022 and $114 million in 2023. billion in 2028. gives it ample room to raise fresh cash.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) on April 28, 2022, and it soared to a record high of $14.98 SoundHound's revenue rose 47% in both 2022 and 2023. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The bulls initially embraced both stocks.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

As assets age, companies depreciate their value, which reduces their current taxable net income. However, depreciation is a non-cash expense. After adding back depreciation and subtracting maintenance and a few other expenses, Energy Transfer generated $1.6 billion of distributable cash flow during the second quarter.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

That's different from Zillow and Redfin , which both shuttered their similar first-party home-flipping services in 2022. But in 2023, the company's revenue plunged, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin declined, and it stayed unprofitable. Metric 2020 2021 2022 2023 Revenue $2.6

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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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AUGUST 20, 2024

The first half of the chart below shows all this good news: soaring earnings (in the form of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or EBITDA ), lower capital expenditures, and strong cash flow growth. This can be seen in the 2022 data in the chart below for UPS' U.S. But it's not the full picture.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The company has been gaining steam since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. The chart below shows its share-price appreciation (or depreciation) in the first and second halves of each full year since its initial public offering (IPO). The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

As a rough rule of thumb, you could think of a company's depreciation and amortization (DA) as representing its "maintenance-capital spending." billion in 2022, and its capital spending was $7.16 of its sales in 2022. These figures imply a 53% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2022 to 2025, slowing to 18.6%

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MARCH 5, 2024

billion, a 35% improvement from where it was at the end of 2022. Its adjusted gross profit and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) rose even higher. The stock still has a long way to go to return to its initial public offering (IPO) price of $40.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Before its merger, it claimed it could grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 40% from $140 million in 2020 to $388 million, expand its annual gross margin from 30% to 50%, and keep its margin on the basis of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in the high teens.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Unlike many other SPAC-backed companies, ChargePoint actually exceeded its own expectations in fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2023. Metric FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 Projected revenue growth 46% 75% 74% Actual revenue growth 65% 94% 8% Data source: ChargePoint. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Netflix shook up the entertainment industry with its 2022 advertising launch, and the company just made it clear that the ad tier is rapidly being embraced. Since then, Roku has slimmed down and the company is now delivering solid top-line growth and positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ).

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MARCH 13, 2024

That decline reduced Sea's enterprise value to $29 billion, which is just 2 times its projected sales and 21 times its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) for 2024. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Zscaler is still priced for growth it can't deliver Zscaler's revenue rose 62% in fiscal 2022 (which ended in July 2022) and 48% in fiscal 2023. As its growth cooled off, its cost-cutting measures boosted its adjusted operating margin from 10% in fiscal 2022 to 15% in fiscal 2023. Image source: Getty Images.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The S&P 500 index climbed by 26.3% (including dividends), which is more than twice its average annual return going all the way back to 1957. Federal Reserve increased the federal funds rate from a historic low of 0.25% all the way to 5.50% between March 2022 and August 2023. The stock market had a great year in 2023.

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MARCH 6, 2024

However, the post-pandemic reopening, along with the game's ban in India in February 2022, conspired to plunge Garena's post-pandemic revenue and earnings. Not only that, but Sea's chief corporate officer, Yanjun Wang, noted that this outlook doesn't incorporate the return to India. billion in 2021 to just $921 million in 2023.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) loss slipped to negative $12.7 Metric FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 9M FY 2024 Hashrate 1 EH/s 4 EH/s 10 EH/s 22 EH/s Bitcoin Assets Held $27.5M $11.1M $56.0M $413.0M Metric FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 9M FY 2024 Revenue $49.4M $131.5M $168.4M $289.7M

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MARCH 25, 2024

2022, in contrast, when Virgin Galactic flew no commercial flights even as it incurred sizable operating costs, probably gives investors a better picture of how its finances will look during its upcoming flight hiatus. Depreciation and amortization accounted for the rest.) Well, let's consider.

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AUGUST 12, 2023

Sales of energy and sports drinks will exceed $240 billion by 2027, up from $171 billion in 2022, according to Statista. The company's revenue soared 108% to $654 million in 2022. Cava Group Restaurant chains in the early stages of their national expansion plans can deliver fortune-building returns to their shareowners.

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