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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Supply chains are improving, which have normalized lead times, allowing us to create better operating leverage in our manufacturing facilities. And also we're working on further SG&A leverage as we standardize and leverage also functional excellence across the organization. Services is growing faster than install now.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Second, like many other companies, our gas utility is contending with inflationary pressure on operating expenses, primarily due to the renewal of several multiyear O&M contracts, higher personnel costs, the amortization of cloud computing technology investments, and higher pension expenses. per share lower than our 2023 earnings.

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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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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

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, the power of our platform is a crucial differentiator as we leverage our expertise across ownership of over 15,400 properties globally, inclusive of the Spirit portfolio. times in line with our targeted leverage ratio. And on a leverage-neutral basis, this represents 60% of the total capital.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2024

We are incredibly excited about what we can achieve together by leveraging our combined assets, capabilities, and competitive advantages. Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased approximately 4% compared to the second quarter of last year. Pros outperformed the DIY customer, but both were negative for the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2024

We will also, for the first time, have the ability to leverage advanced player tracking data to refine and enhance our leading AI enabling betting and streaming products and services. The sports rights impact in the quarter was mostly offset by the operating leverage we delivered across the rest of our call space.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

Non-GAAP gross margin, excluding amortization of acquired intangibles, was 73%. We expect gross margins will improve over time as we realize the benefits from lab automation, leverage investments in a lab infrastructure, and see an increased mix of rescreened patients. You get a ton of leverage by adding these reps.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.66, down from 1.76 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years. We will remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet and advancing to our stated goal of achieving a leverage ratio of 1.5 million or 10%. last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ultimately, as we progress through 2025, we expect revenue growth to accelerate and more revenue to drop right to the bottom line as we improve operating leverage further. On a pro forma basis, excluding amortization expense, stock-based compensation, and the impact of the sale of Board.org, opex decreased approximately $6 million or 16%.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

We reduced our total leverage ratio from 3.9 And we are committed to reducing our total leverage ratio to three times by the end of 2025. We've developed a new operating model with our major markets reporting directly to our president, Stephan Gratziani, who is leveraging his 32 years experience as a top Herbalife distributor.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

It's a starting point for our climate strategy as we leverage our system already be in place in new, innovative ways to continue driving down emissions even further. million, primarily due to customer growth and the amortization of deferrals, partially offset by the effects of warmer weather and lower gains on gas costs.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

While average leverage was largely unchanged for the quarter at 7.4 times tangible equity, our end-of-period leverage declined to seven times tangible equity as of Q4 from 7.9 It triggered my memory because thinking about that last part of the question, and it was an important point to bring up the leverage outlook.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

As we entered this year, we did so as a leaner, more focused organization with a relentless commitment to leveraging our decade-long investment in artificial intelligence. We have launched new products and are optimizing our go-to-market approaches to maximize the impact of our AI technologies married with our product strategy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We've introduced Snowflake Cortex to leverage AI and machine learning on Snowflake. Yeah, we have seen a variety of use cases, but a good number of those private-preview customers are leveraging GPU instances in Snowflake Container Services for use of large language models. This is Christian.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

The adjusted results also exclude incremental costs attributed to the Operational Excellence program and amortization associated with the eOne acquisition. Additionally, as we shifted to leverage licensed IP within Wizards, we incurred higher royalty expense, resulting in a 1.7 Looking at year-to-date results, revenue of $2.2

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The Motley Fool

MAY 15, 2024

Interest for our newer offerings, including log monitoring and application security, also continues to grow, especially for those customers leveraging our Dynatrace Platform Subscription, or DPS, contract vehicle. The airline deal I just mentioned is our largest DPS transaction to date, and they are already leveraging log monitoring.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Excluding these items and non-cash intangible amortization of 1.2 Our non-GAAP 2024 operating expenses exclude non-cash intangible amortization of approximately $3.4 Fourth-quarter GAAP operating expenses included 1.9 million of restructuring-related charges, compared to 0.8 million in the prior year, as well as 0.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Just wondering if you could say where you expect to be within that leverage range now. So, I think to your question, there should be excess leverage capacity to be fair. And then I did want to ask about the non-recourse debt principal amortization schedule. Chris Sotos -- Director, Investor Relations Sure. Appreciate it.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

These center closure costs impact our patient care costs, G&A, and depreciation and amortization expense lines. Depreciation and amortization declined $12 million in Q2 versus Q1, partially as a result of a decline in center closure costs. Leverage at the end of Q2 was 3.1 Moving now to capital structure. million shares.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

We further enhanced our operating profit growth from gross profit growth through operating leverage. We've scaled the model up to the trillion-parameter mark, leveraging the MoE architecture to enhance performance and reduce inference costs, and we are rapidly improving the model's text-to-picture and text-to-video capabilities.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

On marketing, excluding our investments in Vrbo and international markets, our consumer business showed some year-on-year marketing leverage in the second quarter. Excluding these investments, we saw some marketing leverage in our B2C business in the second quarter. Our gross leverage ratio had further reduced 2.3 billion or 9.2

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

million customers and generated $305 million in pre-tax servicing income, thanks to continued strong operating leverage. to 6.2%, which contributed to somewhat higher amortization in the quarter. And meanwhile, we continue to deliver very strong operating leverage. We grew the servicing portfolio to $1.2 That's helpful.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.47, down from 1.66 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last six years. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $3.7 Our leverage ratio was reduced to 1.47 last quarter. EBIT ex-items for the quarter was $18.2

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Adjusted gross profit margin, excluding depreciation and amortization, was 79.2%, an increase of approximately 90 basis points over the prior year. As we scale, we've continued to drive leverage in G&A. So, how do we leverage AI to make the product more usable for clients, for employees, for associates?

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