The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

I'm with Western Avenue Advisers LLC, which was hired in April as an investor relations consultant to the company, following Sara Buda's departure. 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.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

We generated 7% underlying revenue growth continuing our best stretch of growth in more than two decades with both risk and insurance services and consulting delivering strong results. Revenue grew 7% on an underlying basis with 8% growth in RIS and 6% in consulting. In the consulting segment, fourth quarter revenue was $2.4

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Continuing with GBS, we're bringing together the best capabilities of our Analytics and Engineering and Applications business, now called Consulting and Engineering Services, with industry veteran Howard Boville as our general manager. Now, we do have operating leverage with working capital. Moving on to security. SG&A was 8.7%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

Reflecting on the significant improvements in SkyWater's operational execution and financial performance over the past four quarters, we are demonstrating important progress toward achieving the strong revenue growth and operational leverage objectives communicated since our IPO a little over two years ago.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

In Europe, our differentiated capabilities continue to create significant opportunities for our clients to leverage the top talent on their most complex business and technical challenges. We ended Q2 with more than 47,000 consultants, designers, engineers, and architects, a decline of 4.8%, compared to Q2 2023.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This rebranding allows us to leverage marketing investments and capitalize on the strength of the Spartan brand name. The year-over-year increase was largely due to net sales leverage, productivity improvements and net price realization, primarily driven by lower floor plant costs. Residential segment earnings for the quarter were $32.6

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While this trend continues, and in some cases to our benefit, we are seeing encouraging signals of a general rebound for build-based solutions and for traditionally strong Continuum capabilities in advanced tech, data experience, consulting, and AI. This tool was released in 2023 with upgrades coming in Q1 and beyond.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

These were partially offset by higher depreciation and higher amortization of cloud computing arrangement costs. Franchisees strong restaurant EBITDA performance in 2023 supported an improvement in balance sheet health with lease-adjusted leverage ratios improving year over year. and 25% in Canada. It's our Biggie platform.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

For 2023, we also expect additional ongoing expense savings for Sunsetting Legacy Networks and leveraging the newly launched Blink Network. Increases in noncash amortization of intangible assets of 900,000, as well as operating expenses associated with the Q2 2022 acquisition of SemaConnect. There's definitely leverage in there.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To obtain information on factors that may lead to results different from those forecast by Vale, please consult the reports Vale files with the U.S. billion, leveraging optimization initiatives in certain capital investments. They should rather be treated as a type of debt amortization. billion in the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

This industry-leading machine, which leverages 30 existing and pending patents, is the world's most powerful all-terrain horizontal directional drill. The year-over-year increase was largely due to net sales leverage and productivity improvements. The AT120 enables productivity, while at the same time, reducing job site noise.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The capability and infrastructure additions that came from pandemic-era investments give us a foundation for exceptional operating leverage going forward. They act not only as product suppliers, but technical experts who consult and help customers through their development and scale-up challenges. Maravai 3.0 per share to a $0.06

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Revenue grew 7% on an underlying basis with 8% growth in RIS and 7% in consulting. In the consulting segment, fourth-quarter revenue was $2.3 Consulting operating income was $443 million, and adjusted operating income was $480 million, up 18%. For the full year, consulting revenue was $8.7 Are you raising fees?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hinetics, a company that has developed an electric motor for commercial regional jets and narrowbody aircraft, leveraged our manufacturing precision and speed to have a new complex metal component manufactured. million and amortization expense of $1 million. CNC machining revenue fulfilled via the Protolabs Network grew 80% in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

in the prior-year quarter, which is inclusive of product-related intangible amortization for both periods presented. The decline in GAAP gross profit is primarily the result of step-up amortization from the NuVasive merger, which will end during our fiscal fourth quarter. It's looking at things like consulting spend and outside spend.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Given the unique breadth and openness of our portfolio, we can enable end-to-end digital thread initiatives, which leverage a connected flow of product data across design, manufacturing, service, and ultimately, reuse. This is the leverage I was mentioning on the previous slide. Moving to Slide 8. There are a few key takeaways here.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Consistent with the prior year, the decrease in gross profit is largely associated with the NuVasive merger, namely step-up amortization. Excluding the impact of step-up amortization, adjusted gross profit was 69%. GAAP gross profit in the first quarter was 60.2% compared to 74.4% in the prior-year quarter.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Just a few weeks ago, Baker Hughes named EPAM as a key partner for digital and AI to transform the energy sector by leveraging advanced AI-native digital platform implementations at scale. We ended Q4 with more than 55,100 consultants, designers, engineers, trainers, and architects, a growth of 16.3% compared to Q4 of 2023.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

This decreases our reliance on third-party consultants and builds our internal expertise to manage these systems going forward. We also look forward to leveraging the multi-temp distribution center to access more opportunistic products that can benefit both Grocery Outlet and UGO stores. SG&A expense increased 13.3%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

in the prior-year quarter, and is inclusive of the mix impacts from NuVasive as well as $19 million of inventory step-up amortization related to the merger. Given the impact of step-up amortization on GAAP results, we are introducing an adjusted gross profit metric to better provide comparability with operating results.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

Consistent with commentary from previous quarters, the decline in gross profit is associated with the NuVasive merger, namely step-up amortization. As a reminder, step-up amortization is expected to end during our fiscal fourth quarter. Excluding the impacts of step-up amortization, adjusted gross profit was 67.2%.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

Band-Aid was also recognized in the quarter as America's most trusted brands for 2023 by Morning Consult, and this is the second year in a row that Band-Aid has earned the top spot. Excluding amortization, adjusted gross margin was 57.5%. Yet today, a majority of Americans do not use sunscreen on a regular basis.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

What is important also to note is that our primary focus on digital products and data engineering services, combined with digital consulting agency, design content, and digital marketing services, will remain. We ended Q2 with more than 49,350 consultants, designers, engineers, trainers, and architects.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So the outlook, any volume will bring that leverage right back, but also part of the reason why we're taking these self-help actions. And does it have any change to your amortization or depreciation or anything like that? So yes, those two are down and any uptick there gives us some nice leverage. That was all index pricing.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

The term of the facility will be extended to 2029, including extension options, and our cost to borrow will be reduced by 5 basis points based on our anticipated credit ratings and leverage ratio at the time of closing. I had a conversation yesterday with a turnaround consultant who was very busy working with retailers.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

million at the end of the third quarter with net leverage of about 1.5x. For fiscal 2025, we will have increased capital expenditures due to a higher number of organic new store openings and supply chain investments, and as a result, higher depreciation and amortization. We ended the quarter with $68.7 million of cash.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

And some key Q2 customer go-lives included a multinational government consulting firm that is now live on Dayforce payroll, HR, and time for all 39,000 employees in the U.S., million of amortization expense related to the retired Ceridian trade name, which was not in the Q2 2023 comparison financials. and Canadian employees.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

For instance, in the Incidence Response segment, we expanded our partnership with Google, becoming a strategic endpoint vendor for Mandiant Consulting. To this extent, we have already demonstrated tremendous potential for leverage across the business. These non-GAAP measures are not intended to be a substitute for GAAP results.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And I got to see firsthand what Bain was doing in strategic consulting and understand their view of business separate from the numbers. But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage. All the things we know now.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

That helps deliver a great patient experience and supports patients in making more informed choices about their dental treatment and consultation with our doctors. We're looking at different areas of how we can leverage that brand to try to encourage consumers more in this sense of entertaining Invisalign treatment. million, down 5.4%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our win rates remain strong, and we are delivering operating leverage. Is this going to be more of a lead-gen innovation-type consulting business? These non-GAAP measures are not intended to be a substitute for our GAAP results. Our teams are executing well. Really interesting development with Pinnacle One.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I have known Ramesh for a number of years, and he is familiar with our business through previous consulting work. We also leveraged gross profit by 76 basis points and grew adjusted EBITDA by 18%. million at the end of the fourth quarter with net leverage less than one times adjusted EBITDA. Now, let's turn to the acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the in-person attendees were 40 customer presenters such as JPMorgan, MIT, Boston Consulting Group, HubSpot, and Kohls, who spoke about their amazing experiences on Zoom and excitement about the future. So, the bucket gets filled up, and then that's getting amortized through the rest of the year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within each of these markets, we see significant opportunities that can leverage our know-how and core technology that have been developed over the last 25-plus years of Vuzix. The decrease is largely due to a reduction in external development expenses and consultants related to new products. Research and development expense was $2.8

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We are leveraging automation and executing thorough reviews of our usage to improve efficiency while simultaneously improving our uptime, security, and performance. We also continue to be mindful of hiring, as well as costs associated with head count such as travel and reducing our usage of contractors and consultants.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The number one, we got to maintain our persistence in Medicare and commercial to grow this base business and leverage the $35 insulin copay that currently exists for Medicare and commercial insured. We've been waiting for this moment, where we have people, money, and data. Many times, we had two out of three, but not all three. 1 objection.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In addition, we are engaging on consulting services and co-marketing projects that include leveraging our NFL sponsorship. In addition to our flagship risk management services, Visa Advanced Authorization and Visa Risk Manager, they will also expand their use of consulting services. from the amortization of acquired intangibles.

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