The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2023

The following article may be the source for a quiz question on a future fantastical industrial sector-focused game show. 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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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

In addition to the opportunity to increase sales and ultimately realize further growth in the pOpshelf banner, we are also able to leverage learnings from this banner and apply them in our non-consumable categories in our Dollar General stores to further strengthen that offering for our DG customers.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. during the first quarter, minimizing our amortization expense. Finally, we did an outstanding job generating positive operating leverage, with expenses up only $6 million sequentially, despite our rapid growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As disclosed earlier in the third quarter, First Solar also possesses a TOPCon patent portfolio through our acquisition of TetraSun in 2013, which we have begun to leverage as part of our ongoing efforts to develop the next generation of PV technologies.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For us, our focus on mitigating shrink has been a continual and evolving process, leveraging our cross-functional teams and investing in technology to test and learn the most effective methods of reducing shrink. Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased 4% compared to the third quarter of last year.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. billion in 2024 and a conservative net leverage ratio of 0.93x, indicates a sound financial position poised for further investment. Maintaining its leadership will depend on how it leverages its strengths amid evolving real estate market trends. .*

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

leveraging its talent across brands to help share unique learnings and experiences. This second phase will focus on maximizing the value creation potential of our platforms through the acceleration of AI capabilities in combination with fully leveraging the immense data assets we now own. Consumer Data Insights system.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Where appropriate, we may refer to non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate our business, specifically adjusted EBITDA, a measure of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and share-based compensation. Ashley Cordova -- Chief Financial Officer I'd say that has more to do with the ending of the amortization of the royalty.

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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. We have reduced our leverage to 8.48 One, a $4 million increase in interest expense. times as compared to 8.76

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Most notably and uniquely, our lower middle market strategy provides attractive leverage points and income yield on our first-lien debt investments while also creating a true partnership with the management teams and other equity owners of our portfolio companies through our flexible and highly aligned equity ownership structures.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For us, SG&A means selling, general, and administrative expenses including payroll and other compensation, marketing and advertising expense, depreciation and amortization expense, and other selling and administrative expenses. Additionally, we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of these items to U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. One of its core focuses is leveraging its cloud-based platform to penetrate a market that is increasingly leaning toward digital solutions. EBITDA $111 million N/A $29 million 283% Free cash flow $134 million N/A $81 million 65% Source: Toast.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

Customers using the platform are actively leveraging our advanced AI features and, more importantly, finding real value in them. Cost of revenues decreased by $6 million, or 53%, in Q4, primarily due to previous technology-related amortization expenses that became fully amortized in 2024. R&D decreased by $1.1 million or 6%.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. The business focuses on leveraging its TTFields technology to tackle a wide range of solid tumors. All articles published by JesterAI are reviewed by our editorial team, and The Motley Fool takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this article.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Key success factors for Yelp include maintaining high-quality content, leveraging its large consumer audience, and focusing on profitable revenue streams like home services. As Yelp continues to leverage its strategic pivots, its trajectory in expanding successful verticals like home services is key for sustainable growth.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

surge in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and a 14.3% Management has also been diligent on improving the balance sheet and has reached its target net leverage of roughly 3.0. The strategy has fueled profitable growth, and that held true in the company's third quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Commerce Audiences are a set of precision targeting tactics that leverage the largest commerce dataset on the open internet and best-in-class AI to help advertisers acquire and retain customers. Moving down the P&L, depreciation and amortization decreased by 2% in Q1 2024 to $25 million.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, operating margins increased roughly 6 points driven by improved operating leverage through cost management and the higher gross margin noted earlier. billion, including approximately $500 million of amortization of acquired intangible assets from the Activision acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

This increase was driven by retail labor, including approximately $40 million of our targeted labor investment, as well as utilities, depreciation, and amortization and rent. These include reducing our inventory position, refreshing and refining our processes, leveraging additional tools and technology, and improving execution in our stores.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2025

While it is too early to share any details, we are excited about the opportunity to leverage technology, and we have more to share later in the year as we develop these plans. Depreciation and amortization of $730 million, interest expense of $315 million, and a tax rate of 18%. comp leverage point that we've given you.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

These increases were partially offset by a $4 million decrease in amortization expense, as the intangible technology assets acquired with our rentals business completed their amortization. All of those let us get leverage over margins. Our adjusted EBITDA was $4 million, down from $8 million in the prior year.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

We also drove stronger operating leverage, while continuing to invest in our content and technology capabilities. percentage points and grew net cash flow from operating activities by 54%, highlighting the operational leverage in our model. We made significant progress in driving profitability, improving operating leverage by 1.8

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2024

So, in Q2, we continue to work with our customers and focus on leveraging our leading technology as well as optimizing our business through our strategic initiatives, which, of course, includes our cost reduction actions that we have taken. We continue to leverage our technology leadership while prudently managing our business.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Our strong financial performance, debt refinancing, and early achievement of net leverage ratio goals have allowed for a tighter focus on equity dilution management. The primary driver of the decrease was the result of the SpotX acquired intangible assets that became fully amortized in the third quarter of last year. at the end of Q2.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We have built a strong foundation for our business with a diverse portfolio of products and broad client distribution funnel, which are leveraging to monetize our global sports content. The 4Sight products target fast-growing in-play gaming sector and optimizes acquisition, engagement and retention by leveraging our cutting-edge technology.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Gross margin increased sequentially from our second quarter due to fixed cost leverage from higher revenue in Q3 and inventory management. We expect non-GAAP gross margins to be approximately 40 bps higher due to approximately $6 million of stock-based compensation and amortization of intangibles included in GAAP cost of revenue.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2025

of volume leverage, higher productivity, and lower restructuring charges, more than offsetting the unexpected $0.04 This performance was driven by benefits from volume leverage, productivity, Solventum transition service agreement, cost reimbursements, and restructuring, partially offset by FX and investments to drive growth in the business.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The strong and dedicated neuromodulation sales force will be able to leverage our existing spine team to drive uptake and penetration while our spine team can offer more solutions to their surgeons. in the prior-year quarter, driven by operational improvements as well as lower inventory step-up amortization. versus 55.4%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Impairments and amortization of intangibles increased primarily due to impairments of intangible assets of $31 million at E&E and MG Asia as a result of the termination of our live streaming services and our Hakuna brand. Our gross leverage was three times trailing AOI and net leverage was 2.3 Turning to our balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 15, 2024

Craig will be coming on board starting June 1st, and I'm looking forward to partnering with him as we look to continue to drive our business momentum, operational leverage, and shareholder value. He joins us from Lindblad Expeditions where he was CFO for approximately seven years. With that, let's turn to our revised 2024 outlook.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We'll continue our strategy of investing for growth and adding more differentiated value to our membership model to deliver generational relevance while continuing to leverage the strengths of our business model, all of which gives us a competitive advantage. Looking forward, we continue to view marketing and opex as a key source of leverage.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Adjusted gross margin improvement was driven primarily by lower freight costs, occupancy cost leverage from the extra week, and higher vendor allowances, partially offset by product costs inflation, unfavorable sales mix, and elevated shrink. At year-end, our leverage, as defined under our revolving credit agreement, stood at approximately 2.4

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Axial

APRIL 3, 2025

These advisors leverage their HVAC industry expertise in two critical ways: Theyll have data on other HVAC deals theyve worked on. By working with an advisor who has insider knowledge of past transactions, you can effectively leverage recent deal data to refine your valuation.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Accounting treatment says you should start amortizing those every year. Buffett says, that amortization piece, that non cash theoretical charge against earnings that we each year push against total assets, we should ignore that. You remove amortization from net income, and that's the top of your equation. You actually get $3.6

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As of the of the end the third quarter, our unsecured leverage stands at 2.50 And today, we're announcing an update to our long-term leverage target of 2.0 And as we've said many times, we will consider share buybacks but our unsecured leverage metric reaches 2.25 We're still facing headwinds with primary amortization.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

And one of the things you'll see is the leverage of the overall platform. On the MSR portfolio, just given its growth, I mean, do we have an estimate for how much amortization you might incur going forward including on the excess MSRs that you bought during the quarter? It's really more of direct lending of the Rithm balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

In fact, you couldn't ask for a better demonstration of operating leverage. We reported pre-tax income of $288 million, up 58% year over year, reflecting the benefits of growth in operating leverage, while CPR speeds came in slightly below expectations. This means that we expect amortization expense will be a headwind in 2025.

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