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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. at the end of its first quarter of 2023. For comparison, Kroger's net leverage ratio at the end of its fiscal first quarter 2023 was a much-healthier 1.3

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In fact, according to Ark Investment Management's Big Ideas 2023 report, AI software will rake in revenue of up to $14 trillion in 2030. The company also leverages AI algorithms to optimize ad placements in real-time bidding, thereby ensuring a high return on investment for its clients.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

In late 2023, the company notched its 29th consecutive year of increasing its payout when it raised its dividend by 3.1% Enbridge currently gets 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from stable cost-of-service or contracted assets. for this year. times target range.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Since the launch of its Axon 2 AI-based advertising technology in the second quarter of 2023, the company has seen explosive growth. The company continues to see a ton of operating leverage in its business as sales climb, with gross margin for the quarter improving to 77.5% Earnings per share (EPS) surged from $0.30 from 69.3%

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AUGUST 12, 2024

PDD leverages its huge short-video user base to offer livestreaming e-commerce services, an area where Alibaba was the incumbent. First, Alibaba is still the leader in this industry, with a 46% market share in 2023. PDD's low-price strategy has attracted Chinese consumers. By comparison, it delivered 42% growth in 2021.

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MARCH 28, 2025

Despite high-profile sports betting launches from ESPN and Fanatics in 2023, DraftKings continues to grow. At a stock price of around $39 per share, DraftKings trades for an enterprise value roughly 21 times management's 2025 outlook for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ).

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JANUARY 1, 2024

The tide is rising Jeremy Bowman (Carnival): Carnival, the world's biggest cruise line, was quietly one of the top-performing stocks of 2023. The company just capped off fiscal 2023 with record revenue of $21.6 billion with positive adjusted net income of $1 million as it overcame more than $2 billion in interest expense.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Analysts expect its revenue to grow at a CAGR of 33% from 2022 to 2025, and for its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to rise at a CAGR of 54%. from 2023 to 2030, according to Verified Market Research. Image source: Getty Images. and Zscaler wasn't one of them!

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

30, 2023), better than the 4.7% for twelve months ending October 2023, slower than the 3.7% rise seen for the 12 months ending September 2023. The cooling inflation hints at a possible end to the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike cycle, which bodes well for the health of the stock market. so far this year.

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MARCH 17, 2024

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. The table below shows the company's improvements in earnings and cash flow. billion at the end of 2023) is crucial to improving Delta's balance sheet.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Like many other SPAC-backed EV companies, it lost its luster as its growth cooled off, it racked up ugly losses, and its bubbly valuations popped due to rising interest rates. ChargePoint's revenue surged 94% to $468 million in fiscal 2023 (which ended this January), but its adjusted net loss widened from $186 million to $236 million.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Wall Street analysts have ARR dropping into free cash flow generation of $656 million in 2023, followed by $743 million in 2024 and $909 million in 2025. Unlike some aggressive companies that jeopardize their financial well-being by relying heavily on leverage to pursue acquisitions, Heico has adopted a more conservative approach.

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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. cents per unit.

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JUNE 20, 2023

billion of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) this year. That gave it money to fund its growth capital projects and strengthen its balance sheet (its leverage ratio is on track to be at the lower end of its 4.0 billion to $13.5 That puts its valuation at 7.2

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AUGUST 20, 2023

On July 31, 2023, it reported growing third-quarter fiscal 2023 revenue by 78% year over year to $312 million, handily beating analysts' estimates of $262.68 When a company improves its operating leverage, it means that the company can generate more profits from a given level of sales. and Symbotic wasn't one of them!

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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. billion in the third quarter of 2021 to a trough of just $443 million in the second quarter of 2023. billion in 2021 to just $921 million in 2023. of loans outstanding.

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MARCH 2, 2024

It has incredible expansion opportunities Dutch Bros operated 831 stores in 16 states as of the end of 2023, and management sees the opportunity to reach at least 4,000 stores over the next eight or so years. It exceeded its plans to add 150 stores in 2023 with 159 openings, and it plans to open up to 165 new stores in 2024.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

2023 has come to an end, and one thing we can be sure of is that the 2024 winners won't necessarily be the same as the 2023 winners. But many of them will since great companies that are achieving their goals and leveraging their opportunities are likely to continue performing well and generating investor confidence.

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MARCH 24, 2024

billion of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and $5.3 Its adjusted EBITDA was up nearly 9% in 2023, while DCF rose more than 7%, driven by organic expansion projects across its business segments. leverage ratio , which falls in the middle of its 2.75-3.25

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AUGUST 18, 2023

The company is targeting a gross leverage ratio of 3.0. Gross leverage compares gross to debt to adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of August 14, 2023 David Jagielski has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In 2023, capital spending is projected to be around $2.3 Leverage has also been reduced, with debt-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) at roughly 3.2 times in the second quarter of 2023. It peaked at $4.2 billion in 2019 and hit a nadir of $1.6 billion in 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This is exactly what happened in 2022 and 2023. Management boasts that the business has reported positive-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA) in four straight quarters, with the expectation that this will continue going forward. This should play to Roku's favor.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Carnival Even after skyrocketing 97% in 2023 , as of this writing, Carnival 's (NYSE: CCL) stock trades at a price of roughly $16. During its fiscal 2023 first quarter (ended Feb. Ford battled supply chain issues, rising costs, and rapidly rising interest rates that hurt the company. Adjusted earnings per share of $0.63

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MARCH 25, 2024

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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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 22, 2023

But the hope is that with a much larger number of units sold and higher revenue, the business will be better able to leverage its fixed costs and approach management's goal of EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) margins between 8% and 13.5% over the long term.

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JUNE 16, 2023

And to be fair, Energy Transfer produced distributable cash flow of around $2 billion in the first quarter of 2023. For example, its ratio of debt to EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) is generally among the lowest of its closest peer group. yield from Enterprise.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

But management has brought leverage down to 2.9 times its net debt (total debt minus cash) versus its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). Management is forecasting full 2023 organic revenue growth at 4%, its highest uptick in five years. Is it perfect yet? billion by 2027.

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JULY 17, 2023

Demand for cruises continues to be strong, meaning Carnival should continue to post record results through 2023 as bookings tend to come several months ahead of time, with the third quarter being its seasonal peak. The company should continue to grow and gain leverage as its business as a digital payments platform is highly scalable.

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JULY 10, 2024

Internally, Alibaba has undergone massive turnaround efforts since 2023. In comparison, Pinduoduo grew revenue by 90% in 2023. This business segment is also enormously profitable, generating 189 billion yuan ($26 billion) in earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA) in the fiscal year 2024.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Q3 earnings preview for Block For the third quarter, Block has guided for a headline 17% year-over-year increase in the gross profit while forecasting $695 million in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), accelerating by 46% from last year.

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JULY 18, 2024

It locks in the spreads with hedges and then uses leverage to increase its returns. When the Fed began increasing interest rates, mortgage rates followed suit. 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.

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JULY 21, 2023

Connected TV (CTV) ad spending, which is estimated to grow from $24 billion in 2023 to $29.5 The company has been leveraging the power of contextual artificial intelligence (AI) to effectively target audiences by running appropriate advertisements that match the content shown on the Roku Channel. billion in 2024.

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APRIL 6, 2024

The Trade Desk also continues to expand its ecosystem with Solimar, an AI-powered platform that leverages its first-party data to place ads without relying on third-party data; Unified ID 2.0, billion in revenue in 2023, which is comparable to Alphabet's pre-IPO revenue of $1.5 billion in 2023. It generated $1.95

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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. That implies they will supply it with about $200 million of incremental earnings next year. That's a decent amount of additional earnings for a company on track to produce $6.6

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AUGUST 18, 2023

nVent continues to grow As such, nVent continues to churn out growth, with management expecting organic sales growth of 4% to 6% in 2023, with EPS growth of 19% to 21%. 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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JULY 28, 2023

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. The company also generated more cash than management had forecast for its first-quarter 2023 earnings, as it successfully reduced costs. Here's why.

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