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AGNC's portfolio has a weighted average yield of 4.52%, so the company uses leverage -- meaning debt -- to boost returns for investors. The company expects leverage to be around 6 to 12 times its tangible stockholders' equity. It gains leverage by borrowing against its assets, which helps boost returns during good times.

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In 2022, as interest rates started picking up, Klarna's borrowing costs increased to highest level ever. One way it did this was by leveraging generative AI. Klarna quickly adopted AI last year and leveraged ChatGPT to build tools that automate some of the more repetitive, time-consuming tasks for employees.

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billion it generated in 2022 and up from the $38.4 2022 was a bit of an anomaly for Meta, as a pullback in advertising spending combined with Meta's massive increase in capital expenditures curbed its financial results. by simply integrating similar features into its app and leveraging its network effect.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Berkshire began building a stake in early 2021, but the real jump came in the first quarter of 2022. To top it all off, Chevron has an elite balance sheet with very low leverage. But the subsequent boom in 2021 and 2022 was a huge win for Oxy, which was able to pay down debt thanks to higher oil prices.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

billion in fiscal 2022 (ended June 30) and increased to $1.87 million in fiscal 2022 to $173.5 million in fiscal 2022 to $173.5 million in fiscal 2022 but has reversed this in fiscal 2024 to a positive cash flow of $184 million. Net sales stayed flat from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024 at close to $7.1 million to $158.6

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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. This segment is also showing really high operating leverage, with Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $148.5 million operating loss in 2022 to $490 million in operating income in 2023.

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APRIL 5, 2024

The e-commerce and cloud leader grappled with a post-pandemic slowdown and tough macro headwinds in 2022, but its core businesses have been stabilizing. Its earnings per share ( EPS ) jumped 82% in 2020 and 55% in 2021, but it reported a loss in 2022 as its investment in the struggling EV maker Rivian withered. set on July 8, 2021.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The recovery was due to a sharp sell-off in the stock in 2022 that left it oversold, and an impressive recovery in its profit margins in 2023. It also gained leverage by growing into warehouse capacity that it built during the pandemic. He has also cut back on money-losing projects like Alexa.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

As 2022 got underway, the company was projecting adjusted annual earnings to come in between $12.00 High leverage, slowing sales, and weak margins were all contributing factors. But Stanley Black & Decker has been working to get back on track by reducing leverage, cutting costs, and raising prices, among other things.

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APRIL 23, 2024

billion in 2022. billion of FCF; in 2022, FCF was negative $11.6 And by leveraging AWS, Anthropic should be a unique source of generating leads for Amazon's cloud platform. But more importantly, the company generated positive operating income for these two segments. billion of operating income. AMZN PS ratio data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

The Nasdaq Composite index, which is chock-full of growth stocks, tanked by 33% in 2022. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a high-flying stock that split each of its shares into 20 new ones in June 2022. trillion in 2022 and is projected to grow by 15% annually through 2030, according to Grand View Research. Sellers spent $12.1

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Investors all but gave up on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock in 2022. The stock has more than tripled from its nadir in 2022, including Tuesday's after-hours gains, as it's adapted to the challenges in front of it, and found new ways to grow. The company plans to spend $17 billion in cash on content in 2024, equal to 2022 levels.

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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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JANUARY 11, 2024

Amazon Amazon last split its stock in June 2022, when each share turned into 20. On a currency-neutral basis, AWS' last four quarters of growth rates looked like this: Quarter Growth Rate Q4 2022 20% Q1 2023 16% Q2 2023 12% Q3 2023 12% Data source: Amazon. Table by author.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

Marathon's main strategies Marathon plans to grow by continuously expanding its fleet of BTC miners, leveraging its increasing scale to reduce its energy costs, and periodically selling some of its own BTC to boost its liquidity. That decline coincided with soaring energy prices, and its net loss widened by 19x in 2022.

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But if you seek a bit of leverage to the digital coin's price, you might as well invest in an established miner with identifiable signs of growth. Overall, the company appears to be in a fairly solid financial position, having improved from a net loss of $694 million in 2022 to net income of $261.2 million in 2023.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft's strengths are offsetting its weaknesses Microsoft's revenue rose 18% in its fiscal 2022 (which ended in June 2022) but only grew 7% in its fiscal 2023. Second, it's leveraging its battle-hardened reputation to sign up more enterprise customers for its commercial-facing Foundry platform. Image source: Getty Images.

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The tech giant added roughly $700 billion in market value and bounced back from the 2022 bear market that saw its stock price get sliced in half. Thanks to the rebound from the 2022 crash and the fervor over generative AI, nearly every major tech stock soared last year. billion in 2022. billion in the previous year to $11.2

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MARCH 1, 2024

2023 was a strong year for Sweetgreen -- we continued to demonstrate high growth, substantial operating leverage and executed on significant innovation across the business," said CEO Jonathan Neman in the earnings press release. "In On the bottom line, Sweetgreen's adjusted loss narrowed from $0.44 per share to $0.24

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JANUARY 25, 2024

The company generated 58% and 65% of its revenue from selling cruise tickets in its fiscal 2022 and 2023, respectively. Filling them up, therefore, allows the company to leverage these high fixed costs and turn a higher profit. This onboard revenue accounted for 42% and 35% of its revenue in fiscal 2022 and 2023, respectively.

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MARCH 17, 2024

2, 2022 and March 8, 2024, Meta went up a staggering 458.8%. A lot of it was due to Meta being oversold in 2022, but the bigger story is that Meta has one of the best business models in the world. But Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is just as good -- if not a better story. In less than 1 1/2 years -- between Nov.

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stock market, a marked change from the disappointing performance of 2022. The benchmark S&P 500 index has gained nearly 20% so far this year and is up by 28% from its bear-market low of October 2022. 2023 is gearing up to close on a promising note for the U.S. PayPal is currently trading at a price-to-sales ratio of 2.6,

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MARCH 4, 2024

The global retail market hit a valuation of $27 trillion in 2022 and is projected to rise to $30 trillion this year. Amazon has delivered an impressive turnaround An economic downturn caused a marketwide sell-off that saw the Nasdaq Composite plunge 33% in 2022.

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The top dog delivered 71% and 51% revenue growth in 2021 and 2022, respectively. With a higher sales volume, Tesla would have the economies of scale to reduce its unit-production cost, giving it even more leverage to lower its selling price further. Besides, 2023 volume growth almost kept up with that of 2022 (40% growth).

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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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APRIL 7, 2024

An economic downturn in 2022 caused a marketwide sell-off, resulting in the Nasdaq Composite plunging 33% during the year. Shares in Amazon fell 50% in 2022 alongside steep profit declines in its e-commerce segments. Investors who sold the company's stock in 2022 will not have benefited from its significant growth since then.

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Brian Krzanich, who failed to leverage Intel's lead in PCs to expand into the mobile market, stepped down in 2018. Intel's revenue fell 20% in 2022 and dropped another 14% in 2023. Its revenue rose 33% in fiscal 2022 (which ended in March 2022) as the 5G market expanded but fell 1% in fiscal 2023 as that upgrade cycle cooled off.

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After leveraging its balance sheet to acquire CrownRock -- a shale producer with assets in the Permian Basin -- the company is set to make around $260 million in additional cash flow for every $1 increase in oil prices. If you're bullish, few investment options are superior to Occidental, given its direct leverage to rising prices.

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MAY 17, 2024

And that will not only help to support, and justify, the company's higher leverage levels (than midstream peers), but also help to build the foundation for long-term growth. The big risk here might be that you don't take advantage of the fact that Enbridge's stock is down some 30% from its 2015 peak and 20% from its highs in 2022.

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2022 was a dismal year for some investors, with several growth stocks getting battered left, right, and center. This, in turn, appeals to even more advertisers, which further provides more leverage with new streaming partners. However, things seem to have taken a turn for the better as we come to the end of 2023.

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MARCH 25, 2024

on April 6, 2022. Its gross margin shriveled to 26% last year while adjusted EBITDA margin turned negative in 2022 and 2023. 2022 amid that slowdown and was succeeded by Mandy Long, a former IBM executive. BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company on Dec.

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MARCH 9, 2024

The broad surge of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has been boosting the stock market for more than a year now, stretching back to OpenAI's release of the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022. Since then, a handful of early leaders in AI technology have soared into the stratosphere.

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APRIL 25, 2024

The following table outlines the average benefit for beneficiaries of different ages as of December 2022: Age Range Average Monthly Social Security Benefit 62 to 64 $1,364.00 Data as of December 2022. Adults in the 70 to 74 age range above in 2022 were born between 1948 and 1952. 65 to 69 $1,777.52 70 to 74 $1,938.49

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million in 2022. If the company can leverage data licensing as a major new revenue source, shares could surge above current levels. Last year, Reddit's revenue increased 20% annually to reach $804 million. Meanwhile, the business posted a net loss of $90.8 million -- down from a loss of $158.6 million of that revenue this year.

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As it scales, Palantir is exhibiting tremendous operating leverage. Its adjusted operating margin expanded from 23% in the second quarter of 2022 to 37% last quarter. And while the company is showing strong earnings growth as it leverages its fixed costs with more commercial customers, that valuation makes it extremely risky to own.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

It could be its leverage to rising oil prices. At peak 2022 levels, that could result in enough additional cash flow to finance the entire CrownRock acquisition. Of course, oil prices are roughly $50 per barrel lower than they were in 2022. What does Buffett like most about Occidental?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Microsoft (31%) Gates donated $20 billion to his foundation in 2022, and it appears a large chunk of the donation came in the form of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock. The trust added about 38 million shares to its portfolio in 2022, worth about $8.9 The stock is up more than 60% since July of 2022, when Gates made his donation.

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