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The sector has gone through a transformation in the past decade, with midstream companies reducing leverage and being more disciplined when it comes to funding growth projects. Even better, the company has said it could pay excess distributions once its leverage is below 3 times and it has excess free cash flow.
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billion Canadian ($3 billion) of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in the period. That gives it a nice cushion while allowing it to retain billions of dollars in excess free cash flow each year to fund its continued growth. The pipeline and utility operator produced $4.2 target range.
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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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for the full year, strong levels of NII per share and DNII per share to fund our record level of annual shareholder dividends, and a new record for NAV per share for the 10th consecutive quarter. for the quarter. Our positive performance in all four quarters for the year resulted in a return on equity of 19.4%
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According to a report issued last year by the Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, dividend-paying companies have generated an annualized return of 9.18% over the past half-century (1973-2022). million in net debt, its net-leverage ratio is a modest 0.31. Though it closed out 2023 with $277.3 30, 2023.
The MLP cut its distribution payment in half during the pandemic to retain additional cash to fund expansion projects and debt reduction. It was able to steadily chip away at its leverage ratio , driving it down to its 4.0 That gives it plenty of money to fund expansion projects, to the tune of $1.6 That strategy has paid off.
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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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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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billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in 2023. The company used that excess cash to fund its capital expenses, which totaled about $1.2 times leverage ratio , well below the 4 times level its stable business can support. An excellent year MPLX generated nearly $6.3
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