The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2025

The company's approach leverages its store base to fulfill 80% of online sales. Its ScoreCard Rewards loyalty program, boasting over 25 million active members, plays a crucial role, accounting for over 70% of its sales. This strategy enhances customer convenience and operational efficiency. year over year.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We've increased our regular dividend rate 160%; and including both regular and special dividends, paid or committed to pay more than $13 billion directly to shareholders; and $3.2 billion of that free cash flow back to our shareholders through a mix of our regular dividend and opportunistic share repurchases. We generated $1.6

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. It will receive recurring monthly option payments, which will be used to pay predictable dividends to shareholders, and will additionally receive initial deposits and proceeds from the sale of fully developed homesites. million shares for over $2 billion in cash.

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The Motley Fool

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

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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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

We have a packed agenda lined up for the next three days, and we're excited to see our customers, partners, analysts, shareholders, and employees, all in person to share our passion for BI, AI, bitcoin, and innovation. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be creative to existing shareholders. Equity issuances.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In fact, our top four Contact Center deals in the quarter came from the channel, which speaks to our progress leveraging this amazing resource to extend our success across geographies and industries. As indicated in our earnings press release today, we are also excited to announce our board has authorized an incremental $1.2

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, its personal accounts that used to offer peer-to-peer payments now offer a full suite of financial services. One of them was the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to leverage PayPal's huge data trove and create more value for clients and expand its opportunities. So far, it's going well. last year to $1.08

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

And here's the icing on the cake: Growth would have been even faster during the year, but Tesla said in its fourth-quarter shareholder update that its energy storage product deliveries were supply constrained. billion in 2024, accounting for more than 10% of total revenue for the period. The segment's sales were nearly $10.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With our industry-leading brands that excel in each of their respective segments, the most innovative fleet and destinations, and the best people who are focused on delivering a lifetime of vacations for our guests, we focus on winning share from the large and attractive travel industry while delivering long-term shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Our latest earnings press release and the accompanying materials available on gapinc.com also include descriptions and reconciliations of any financial measures not consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. The remaining 50 basis points were driven by ROD leverage. Now, let me turn to SG&A. SG&A was $1.3

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The Motley Fool

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. In 2022, the company's sales of exclusive brands accounted for 30% of total net sales, up from 29% in 2021. When same-store sales fall, retail chains often lose operating leverage and profits go down.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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. With its strong profitability, the cruise line rewarded shareholders with share repurchases and a high-yield dividend.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

This program is unlike any ever launched at CMC due to the breadth and depth of its reach, as well as the visibility and the accountability structures built to support it. In addition, we had approximately 815 million of availability under our credit and accounts receivable facilities, bringing total liquidity to just under 1.7

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The Motley Fool

MAY 29, 2024

That's the fee it takes to ensure payment moves from your bank or credit account to the merchant's bank account. And while it's already a massive business, accounting for $15 trillion in payment volume across 276 billion transactions last year, there's still room for it to grow. Importantly, Visa is not a bank itself.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

These are stocks that pay out a large percentage of their earnings to shareholders in the form of dividends. Humira accounted for about 28.9% AbbVie has a solid track record of rewarding its shareholders with dividends. However, not all high-yield stocks are created equal. billion in total net sales.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

However, there's no reason for shareholders to panic. million households as customers, adding 2 million net new accounts last quarter. The fact that hours streamed increased at a faster rate than the growth in active accounts is also worth noting because it indicates an improvement in engagement per household.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

Two weeks into the start of trading of this new breed of Bitcoin ETFs, the two leaders account for about 70% of all inflows. Importantly, scale can play an important role in driving down costs for shareholders. Issuers can leverage certain operational expenses for an ETF, such as marketing spend.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft is leveraging the old with the new. Apple's calling card to success has long been its iPhone, which accounts for more than half of U.S. Entering 2024, three Magnificent Seven constituents had been paying a dividend to their shareholders for years. 2 cloud-infrastructure service platform. smartphone market share.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2024

Two stocks that have rapidly increased their dividend payments to shareholders over the last half-decade, Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) , have managed to outperform non-dividend payers in that time. So, each extra swipe practically puts more money in shareholders' pockets. They are payment network operators.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2023

accounting for a whopping 47% of its stock holdings at last count. This figure does mark a 3% decrease from the same quarter a year ago, but Apple still returned a staggering $23 billion to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends in the quarter. Apple is also poised to benefit from the recovery of the global economy in 2024.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Our first priority is to create shareholder value through our approximately 81% ownership stake in Enact. Enact's value continues to grow with a total shareholder return, or TSR, since its IPO of approximately 100% as of February 14th and approximately 15% in 2024.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

Receiving a dividend check in the mail (or a deposit to your account these days) every quarter is excellent. This income can supplement salary or retirement, fund some entertainment, or be reinvested to bolster your retirement account. Warren Buffett says leverage is one of the few ways smart investors go broke.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

At their core, banks are essentially leveraged bets on a lending portfolio. Banks typically use debt, or leverage, to boost those returns. Both companies are able to squeeze more shareholder profit out of each dollar invested. Quite simply, the bank isn't able to squeeze as much profit out of its asset base.

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The Motley Fool

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. Pushing toward profits The key to both advertising and subscriptions is that Uber is leveraging its existing product to add value.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Today, although Dropbox still leverages its core cloud storage technology, the company focuses more on helping individuals and teams build and collaborate on content. For most users, this makes switching far more cumbersome, especially for the multiple-person teams that now account for 35% of Dropbox's overall users.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Representing Prudential on today's call are Charlie Lowrey, chairman and CEO; Rob Falzon, vice chairman; Andy Sullivan, head of international businesses, and PGIM, our global investment manager; Caroline Feeney, head of US businesses; Yanela Frias, chief financial officer; and Rob Axel, controller and principal accounting officer.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As part of that partnership, the two companies will collectively invest up to $2.5bn over the next five years, leveraging Mubadala’s long-term and strategic partnership with Apollo Global Management. Mubadala will hold 80% ownership of the Abu Dhabi Global Market-based joint venture entity, with the remaining 20% held by Alpha Dhabi.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

I also want to acknowledge the board of directors for providing a unique equity compensation structure that ensures my alignment with shareholder interest. Our board of directors has recently approved the resumption of our share repurchase program, leveraging our existing $50 million authorization.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the quarter, we continue to execute against our strategy that is driving long-term growth and shareholder value. We're very pleased with Enact's operational strength's capital levels and consistent shareholder distributions. On a statutory accounting basis, the U.S. Genworth reported net income of $85 million or $0.19

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Leveraging its leading position in the graphics card space, Nvidia has since grown from its relatively small 1999 public offering to the $1.5 The company's been through ups and downs which would have shaken several of even the staunchest of shareholders out. The rest, as they say, is history. trillion powerhouse it is today.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

In the past, it has over-leveraged and left itself vulnerable to downturns. The company has reduced its leverage by paying down a sizable amount of debt and taking a cautious approach to capital expenditures. Despite its dominant position, ExxonMobil isn't a perfect company. for every dollar in earnings toward the dividend.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is because the company achieved its leverage target last year after five years of paying down debt. Since the company brought its debt down to comfortable levels, it has been increasing its payouts to shareholders methodically every quarter. That's because management stopped doing earnings calls with public shareholders years ago.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Instead, various offerings, like bank accounts, loans, credit cards, and insurance products are all offered via the company's mobile app. It focuses on leveraging the popularity of smartphones and the internet to provide a superior user experience in a market that's not known for that. That would be substantially higher than the $0.09

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Ark Invest believes that in the future, the business' vertically integrated offerings, like digital wallets, bank accounts, and debit cards for consumers, and payroll, working capital, and bill pay for merchants, will result in a powerful and more widely used closed-loop payments system. Block falls squarely into this investment theme.

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