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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

billion indirectly through share repurchases, all while reducing debt 35%. And we continue to improve our capital efficiency by leveraging technology and innovation across both our foundational and emerging assets. Taking into account our full year regular dividend, we have committed to return $4.3 Of that $3.8 billion, $1.6

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JUNE 23, 2024

Maxing out retirement accounts may not be the best move for everyone, but it's something I look forward to every year. Retirement accounts, such as a 401(k) and Roth IRA, can come with many benefits that can make your life easier now and during retirement. For instance, pre-tax contributions to a 401(k) can lower your taxable income.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

By defining clear objectives over five years, ExxonMobil is holding itself accountable and painting a big picture for long-term investors to look past quarterly results. Higher risk, higher potential reward The greatest beneficiaries of higher oil prices are leveraged companies or companies with higher breakeven levels.

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MARCH 27, 2025

While we'll go into more financial detail in a moment, it's important to highlight at the outset that our fourth quarter results reflected the change in accounting estimate for our regenerative medicine program. For simplicity, through the remainder of this morning's call, we'll simply refer to this item as a change in accounting estimate.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

As an operating business, we are able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds from equity and debt financing, to accumulate bitcoin, which serves as our primary treasury reserve asset. In addition, it also enables us to acquire bitcoin through the use of excess cash or proceeds from equity capital raises or corporate debt capital raises.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, they may be losing out on the interest that could come with an emergency fund in a high-yield savings account. And it's easy to understand why: When you reach the upper echelon of earnings, taking on debt isn't necessarily a concern since you may already have the funds to pay off your balances. of their income.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

They provide the company with very predictable earnings backed by cost-of-service agreements and long-term contracts, accounting in total for 98% of its EBITDA. Thanks to its strategy of using long-term, fixed-rate debt and keeping its leverage ratio low, it has an investment-grade credit rating. target range.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Image source: Getty Images If you're a millennial, you've likely heard your boomer parents (or even silent generation grandparents) tell stories about how they bought a house in their 20s, paid off their education, and still had enough left over in their checking account to vacation, send the kids to college, and even buy a second home.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Maybe $1 million will do the trick, or perhaps $400,000 in an individual retirement account will suffice, especially if I have other accounts to tap into. Needless to say, my account balance barely moved during those years. Take a look at how your account could potentially grow if you invested $7,000 annually.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

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. It made good progress in fiscal 2023 by bringing its debt down by $4.6 Take fiscal 2023, for example.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Taking all this into account, we expect adjusted earnings per share for the quarter to be $1.40 European itineraries will account for 15% of our capacity, Alaska will account for about 6% and Asia Pacific will account for 11%. billion of debt, lowering rates by 300 basis points. Our leverage was below 3.5

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JUNE 18, 2024

Adobe booked a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP) operating margin of 35.5% But the company is also gaining interest and usage for its Express mobile and Express for Business offerings, which is an all-in-one app that leverages AI to help users create graphics, PDFs, and short-form videos. And it doesn't pay a dividend.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 11, 2023

This added protection allows AGNC to prudently leverage its bets in the MBS space in order to pump up its profit potential. This leverage also supports the company's juicy payout. A BDC is a company that invests in either the equity (common or preferred stock) or debt of middle-market businesses. billion in debt securities.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It's ramping up its spending as its growth cools off Zscaler has stayed unprofitable on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis ever since its IPO. Pay attention to its debt and dilution Zscaler had a high debt-to-equity ratio of 2.7 That's roughly triple its debt-to-equity ratio of 0.9

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The cruise line operator's revenue plunged in 2020 and 2021 as global travel ground to a halt during the pandemic, and it was forced to take on a lot more debt to stay solvent. billion in long-term debt, but that figure hit a whopping $29.5 billion in long-term debt, but that figure hit a whopping $29.5 NYSE: CCL).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, excluding the impact of noncash compensation expenses. And we continue to maintain very strong liquidity and a conservative leverage profile, which we believe is important in the current economic environment.

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APRIL 12, 2024

It's less than $25 per share and can fit into many investment accounts, though it's volatile and is typically not appropriate for oversize positions. 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. million in 2023.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The bank reduced managerial layers from 13 to eight, eliminated 60 committees, shut down many foreign business units (including its global distressed-debt operations), and is now in the process of shedding thousands of positions, many of which are high-cost executive roles. Banks typically use debt, or leverage, to boost those returns.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Private credit has become an integral part of the financing solutions available to support corporate growth and there is an increasing demand for debt capital from well-established and high-growth software and technology businesses, which typically have leading market positions, resilient customer base and strong financial fundamentals.”

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MARCH 21, 2025

The brand is set to launch and begin delivery in April, leveraging NIO's [Inaudible] network for rapid market expansion. Basically, we ask all the teams and employees to take the ownership and accountabilities of the company's operational targets. No matter if it's debt or equity. We call it CBU or sales business unit.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

And thanks to its incredibly popular foam clogs, which account for the vast majority of overall revenue, it seems like Crocs has become a household name. By leveraging its fixed costs, management has quickly increased net income. Profitability is superb, but Crocs currently carries a $2 billion debt burden, primarily from the $2.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

Some may have unsustainable payouts, declining businesses, or high debt levels that could jeopardize their dividends in the future. Humira accounted for about 28.9% The drawback is that AbbVie's aggressive dealmaking has created a sizable debt overhang for the company. However, not all high-yield stocks are created equal.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

That, meanwhile, is backed by a strong balance sheet, with the company's debt-to-EBITDA also within management's target range, which in this case is between 4.5 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.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Higher rates have made certificates of deposit and high-yield savings accounts more attractive to income investors over the past two years or so. For capital-intensive businesses that tend to carry a high amount of debt on their balance sheets, lower interest rates can reduce the cost of capital and make debt financing less expensive.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

The companies generate returns by earning a spread between their funding costs (short-term debt used to buy the MBS) and the yields of the mortgages in their portfolios. These firms then use leverage to boost their returns. Annaly and AGNC also have less leverage than they've used in the past before the pandemic.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

However, you can still use it to increase your retirement readiness by stashing it in a retirement account or a taxable brokerage account. And those without much personal savings may need to claim Social Security early to avoid falling into debt, even if doing so reduces their lifetime benefit.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Since our last earnings call on April 30, I am pleased to announce that we are making solid progress on our path forward of one, simplifying the business; two, operational performance improvement and three, reducing leverage. Our path forward goal is to reduce $2 billion in debt.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We're also leveraging AI to create a more intuitive workflow and faster turnaround times to reduce frustrations for our members and provider partners. We've seen high retention and strong welcome season in our national accounts book and have made meaningful progress in the rightsizing of our Individual Exchange footprint.

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MAY 4, 2024

It offers a full suite of financial services on its app, including bank accounts, investing tools, loans, and more. It's banking for modern times, and its easy-to-use services and low fees are attracting hundreds of thousands of new accounts quarterly.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

Accounting for almost 90% of the AI GPU market, Nvidia is well-positioned to benefit from the rapid artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure build-out. The company is leveraging its AI systems to analyze this data and derive insights, which help advertisers improve their advertising performance. billion in debt at the end of 2024.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

In the past, it has over-leveraged and left itself vulnerable to downturns. However, ExxonMobil has improved its balance sheet significantly since then, taking advantage of outsize gains in recent years to pay down debt. Despite its dominant position, ExxonMobil isn't a perfect company.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, excluding the impact of noncash compensation expenses. This approach provides us significant downside protection through our first-lien debt investments and preferred equity positions while still providing the benefits of significant upside potential through our equity investments.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That may sound time consuming, but if you're willing to use a budgeting app that links to your various accounts, it can actually be done passively on your behalf. This option also has the benefit of letting you double-check that there aren't inconsistencies or fraudulent charges to your account.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Riley "continues to mark an asset at anywhere from 2-3x its fair value" and that the company is "being incredibly misleading in its accounting and in its disclosures around the nature of control it exercises over companies that it invests in." Secured debt is debt backed by collateral, which helps reduce the risks associated with lending.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

We continued our impressive debt reduction journey in 2024 as well, ending the year with $790 million in holding company debt, down from $4.2 who can leverage that access to optimize quality care, affordable pricing, and personalized service. GAAP accounting. life assumption reviews.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 29, 2023

That marked the first time its total cash and BTC holdings exceeded its total debt. Marathon's revenues are soaring, but it isn't consistently profitable on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis, and it's taking on a lot of debt to expand its mining operations.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

The banking services and fintech stock also halved its generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) net loss to $0.06 As for its headline numbers, SoFi's adjusted quarterly revenue rose 37% year over year to $488.8 million, trouncing estimates for $476 million. per share in Q2, beating estimates calling for a wider loss of $0.07

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