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DECEMBER 15, 2024

Meta Platforms: Up 390% from October 2022 Meta's results since 2022 are the outcome of a clear focus by management. Netflix: Up 300% from October 2022 Netflix's growth over the past two years was invigorated by two major changes at the streaming video pioneer. First, the company introduced an ad-supported tier in late 2022.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The MLP has an elite credit rating (its A-/A3 bond rating is the highest in the midstream sector) thanks to its low leverage ratio. The company's leverage was 3.0 For example, in 2022, the company bought Navitas Midstream Partners for $3.2 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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. on 27% loan growth last quarter.

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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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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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OCTOBER 19, 2024

That is, they acquire all sorts of additional assets that may not have the same return profile as the original well -- potentially squandering the original golden goose. Even Chevron has struggled to maintain its average return profile during recent volatility. CVX Return on Equity data by YCharts. of the company.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

The Nasdaq Composite index, which is chock-full of growth stocks, tanked by 33% in 2022. Last year was the 11th time since 1971 that the Nasdaq Composite index returned to positive gains following a negative year. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a high-flying stock that split each of its shares into 20 new ones in June 2022.

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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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APRIL 23, 2024

billion in 2022. The combination of increased sales and a return to positive operating income helped to accelerate free cash flow (FCF). 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. billion of operating income.

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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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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 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. per share to $0.24

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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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MARCH 24, 2024

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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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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APRIL 12, 2024

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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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. It can fuel growth with cash and support a sizable capital-return program. In less than 1 1/2 years -- between Nov.

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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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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. Assuming the stock rises at the same rate as the dividend, to maintain the yield, investors will get a 10% to 12% total return with an investment in Enbridge.

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MARCH 21, 2024

million in 2022. If the company can leverage data licensing as a major new revenue source, shares could surge above current levels. 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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MAY 12, 2024

Keep in mind that Berkshire has owned Occidental stock since the first quarter of 2022, meaning the company has already produced huge gains on its investment. CVX Total Return Level data by YCharts What exactly is Chevron doing so well? The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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. Dani Cook has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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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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MAY 12, 2024

This affects short-term earnings, as the rising costs squeeze profits and require a higher return on investment to make acquisitions worthwhile. Agree Realty continues to grow despite a challenging backdrop Since peaking at around $73 per share in June 2022, Agree Realty stock has fallen 20%. return over the same period.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

In early 2022, Warren Buffett and his investing team at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) At their core, banks are essentially leveraged bets on a lending portfolio. Banks typically use debt, or leverage, to boost those returns. made a splash by buying $3 billion in shares of Citigroup (NYSE: C).

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AUGUST 7, 2024

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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MAY 1, 2024

Valuations in the technology sector cooled off when the Nasdaq-100 plunged 33% in 2022, and soaring interest rates triggered a slowdown in the advertising industry. Some brands -- even those outside of fashion -- used AR to help double their return on advertising spending recently. A couple of things happened.

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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. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Anders Bylund has positions in Alphabet and Nvidia.

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MAY 11, 2024

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. Enterprise has averaged about a 13% return on invested capital over the past five years. cents per unit. That was down to only $1.4

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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. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. wasn’t one of them.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

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 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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MAY 12, 2024

Disney dived deeper into ads at the end of 2022 when it added an ad-supported tier for its popular Disney+ service. Advertisers want the loop closed so they can use their limited advertising dollars with greater precision and a better return on their investment. Media companies such as Disney also want to maximize revenue per ad slot.

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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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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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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Besides reinforcing the savings habit, regularly buying shares of well-selected stocks can leverage the power of compounding to turn small investments into a big nest egg over time. This is in terms of total return and thus assumes the reinvestment of dividends. Investing early in your career can pay huge dividends later in life.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Whether a stock is up or down in the near term, if you patiently hold shares of a competitively strong business, you're going to earn great returns sooner or later. Like Amazon, MercadoLibre is leveraging its extensive e-commerce platform for media and advertising with strong results. It has the No.

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