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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In 2022, the livestock-and-pet category accounted for 50% of its sales, which was pretty close to what it's been in past years. Tractor Supply's supply chain can handle massive volume -- including 8 billion pounds of feed in 2022 -- because its a massive company. billion in fiscal 2022 and $12.73 billion in fiscal 2022 and $12.73

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adapting to and leveraging new technologies has been in our DNA from the start, and generative AI is pushing the pace of technology innovation faster than ever. in the fourth quarter was up versus last year by about 320 basis points due primarily to leverage from adjusted fixed operating expenses and marketing expenses.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Investing in the future while returning cash to shareholders Meta's massive step-up in share repurchases over the past three years is an indication of the strength of its operations and balance sheet. billion it generated in 2022 and up from the $38.4 Meta generated $43 billion in free cash flow in 2023. billion generated in 2021.

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Thiel remains one of the largest shareholders in Palantir, which has a market cap around $83 billion as of this writing. Co-founder and CEO Alex Karp points out that commercial customers grew from 14 to 295 over the past four years in his most recent letter to shareholders. Thiel has now exhausted the authorization through Dec.

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JUNE 18, 2023

It was a cash bonanza for shareholders. But the benefit for shareholders of this dividend change was pretty intense. In 2022 it increased again to just over $25 per share for the year. To be fair, Pioneer isn't wildly over leveraged. Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) is a U.S. onshore energy driller.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Income that's leverage to rising oil prices Reuben Gregg Brewer (Pioneer Natural Resources): Unlike most companies, Pioneer Natural Resources has a variable dividend policy. PXD data by YCharts Over most of the past year oil prices have been declining from their 2022 peak. That will give it more money to return to shareholders.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

In his 1988 annual letter to shareholders, Buffett penned that when it comes to owning outstanding businesses with excellent management, "our favorite holding period is forever." As for why Buffett's love grew for Apple, the company returns an incredible amount of capital to its shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A major blow to its video game segment in early 2022 became a driving factor in the stock's decline. What happened to Sea in 2022? 2022, India banned Free Fire over national security concerns, and Garena eventually saw its revenue decline 9% for the year. Sea's business has three pillars. billion, it was Garena's $2.5

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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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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. billion and negative shareholder equity of $217.7

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APRIL 27, 2024

Metric Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023 Stock Buybacks $66.1 Apple has the cash to step in and buy its stock, thereby reducing the share count and giving existing shareholders greater ownership of the company. Therefore, Apple's true "cash position" is even better than its leverage ratios would indicate.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

The company smartly leveraged its user base in QQ to distribute its online games, which helped it scale the business rapidly and cost-effectively. billion) in net profit in 2022. And if Tencent uses up all its growth opportunities, it can still grow shareholder value via external investments. billion on WeChat.

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JULY 23, 2023

If this doesn't discourage you from wanting to become a shareholder, then perhaps it's a good idea to learn more about the company. Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy," reads Tesla's 2022 annual report. Achieving profitability In 2022, Tesla produced $13.7

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MAY 20, 2024

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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JULY 27, 2023

First, Microchip has recently completed a de-leveraging cycle that began all the way back in 2018 after the large acquisition of Microsemi. Now having reached its leverage target, the company will programmatically increase cash returns to shareholders, growing from 62.5%

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some of the attractive ETFs that can deliver passive income with the potential for some capital appreciation include iShares Core High Dividend ETF (NYSEMKT: HDV) , Global X US Preferred ETF (NYSEMKT: PFFD) , and Cambria Foreign Shareholder Yield (NYSEMKT: FYLD). Start Your Mornings Smarter! Of course, there's no free lunch.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The S&P 500 is back at record highs, confirming that the current bull market began in October 2022 and continues today. Moreover, Alphabet is growing that revenue by 13% year over year, the quickest pace for the company dating back to early 2022. It has cash to burn that could be used to increase shareholder returns.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Perhaps even more encouraging for shareholders is Carnival's path to getting back toward profitability. Its operating loss in Q1 2022 was a whopping $1.5 Ford Shares of Ford (NYSE: F) are 44% off their all-time high from early 2022. This is largely due to macro headwinds that rattled the industry throughout 2022.

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MAY 12, 2024

If you're a current shareholder or are looking to buy shares, you'll want to consider the following first. 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%. Its overall performance hasn't been much to celebrate, either.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During this time, I have connected with shareholders, customers and clients. The combination of these measures will ultimately deliver greater shareholder value. We're also leveraging AI to create a more intuitive workflow and faster turnaround times to reduce frustrations for our members and provider partners.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

This will be supported "by both improving our core series and film offering while investing in new growth initiatives like ads and gaming," the shareholder letter reads. Netflix's current scale is precisely why the business is so profitable, as it can leverage huge content costs. between 2015 and 2025. It reported an impressive 29.6%

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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. Gates is still one of the largest shareholders in the company he founded, and the company's stock still accounts for a large portion of his wealth. billion at the time.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

That was good news not only for those who invest directly in Bitcoin, but also for shareholders of certain crypto stocks. It's true that the big decline in Bitcoin prices during early and mid-2022 came at the same time that the Federal Reserve was doubling down on its policy of rapidly increasing interest rates.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

billion rose 16% compared with the same period in 2022. Palantir shareholders might also remember in 2021 when CEO Alex Karp forecasted a 30% revenue growth rate in the 2022-2024 time frame. Palantir has a long track record of leveraging AI to deliver analytical insights.

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MAY 14, 2024

The good news is that I saved some of the more potent aspects of the bullish argument for the end to justify at least holding Sirius XM if you are already a shareholder. Sirius XM is also starting to pay down its long-term debt since that bearish leverage peaked in 2022. There's the dividend, of course.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Dividend growers and initiators averaged a total return of 10.24% from 1973 through 2022, while non-payers averaged returns of just 3.95%. So, each extra swipe practically puts more money in shareholders' pockets. Both Visa and Mastercard return nearly all their free cash flow to shareholders. And it's not even close.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Shareholders may well see significant benefits -- assuming the new addition can contribute as planned. Per a report by Coherent Market Insights, the market for drugs that treat Fredreich's ataxia was worth $777 million as of mid-2022 although it could grow larger than $2 billion annually by 2030. billion in cash.

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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. REITs are income-producing properties whose operators are obliged to pay 90% of their taxable income to shareholders.

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JULY 14, 2023

It is because they are leveraged -- they buy securities and then borrow against them to purchase more. Warren Buffett says leverage is one of the few ways smart investors go broke. billion in 2020 to $20 billion in 2022, and the market is forecast to grow by 8% CAGR over the next five years. Have you wondered how they do this?

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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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JANUARY 16, 2024

After surging in 2021 and 2022, energy stocks cooled off last year. It plans to return about 70% of free cash flow to shareholders. While that statement rings true for Diamondback Energy, it would be a mistake to conclude that the stock is simply a leveraged play on the price of oil. Shares are valued at 4.4

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Amazon's profitability is piling up John Ballard (Amazon): Amazon has been a truly wealth-building investment for long-term shareholders. Like Amazon, MercadoLibre is leveraging its extensive e-commerce platform for media and advertising with strong results. Amazon Web Services, or AWS). It has the No.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Tripadvisor only started breaking out Viator's financial results in 2022, so investors can't track its progress too far back. However, Viator has generated revenue of $576 million through the first three quarters of 2023, which is a 57% increase from the comparable period of 2022. And it appears that Viator's time has finally arrived.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

You might be a regular customer of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) , but are you a shareholder as well? If not, here's a rundown of the top four reasons (in no particular order) you might want to become a shareholder sooner rather than later. If so, you know at least one of the several reasons to own it. is respectable but far from jaw-dropping.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The company isn't talking about that milestone yet, but CEO Andrew Jassy laid out a course for it last week in his annual shareholder letter. In his shareholder letter, Jassy said the company reduced its shipping costs per unit in 2023 for the first time since 2018, and its same-day service was an important part of that reduction.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Aside from investors chasing the next hot initial public offering (IPO) , a group of investors that should be digging into Instacart's financials are Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) shareholders. By comparison, Uber exited 2022 with a $500 million run rate on its advertising unit.

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