The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

The two biggest areas to look at when it comes to dividend safety are its distribution coverage ratio and leverage ratio. Meanwhile, the company ended last year with leverage of 3x, which is near the low end of companies in the midstream space. When the leverage at companies gets too high, there's a risk they may cut their dividend.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, climbed 10% to nearly $2.4 Over the past five years, Enterprise has averaged about a 13% return on invested capital, so these growth projects should provide meaningful growth to the company in the years ahead.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Finally, Carnival lifted its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) guidance for the full year to $6 billion -- that's up by nearly $200 million from guidance, given a few months ago, and represents a 40% increase from last year. Carnival also has prepaid debt, for example prepaying $7.3

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 28, 2023

Yesterday, a number of analysts raised their price targets on the stock in the wake of the second-quarter earnings report, commenting on the strong 2026 guidance, which calls for $7 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) by that year. 10 stocks we like better than Carnival Corp.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) came in at $681 million, toward the high end of its guidance, and a significant improvement from a loss of $928 million in the quarter a year ago. If Carnival can hit those goals, the stock should be a winner over the next few years.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) also rose 5% to nearly $2.44 It ended the quarter with leverage of 3x, which it defines as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. It produced distributable cash flow (DCF) of $1.96

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

The company also dramatically improved its adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) margin by 14 percentage points to 37% in the quarter. The company is leveraging next-generation AI to give better and more relevant recommendations to users.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Then the pandemic hit, and low oil prices coupled with a heavily leveraged balance sheet forced Occidental to make a dividend cut. It's investing heavily to build out direct air capture (DAC) projects that would suck carbon dioxide from the air for permanent sequestration underground. That's a 25% increase from last year's level.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2023

The stock yields 3% at the current share price, giving retirees a solid return on investment they can trust. Additionally, the 73% dividend payout ratio and stellar balance sheet, leveraged at just 1.6 It's one of only two publicly traded companies with an AAA corporate credit rating -- that's higher than the U.S. government!

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

However, with $62 billion of non-cancellable leases on its books -- and generating over $5 billion annually in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) -- the company should easily handle its debt obligations. Now trading with its highest-ever 3.5%

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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 Given our cash flows and overall financial strength, this is the appropriate range for our business to provide flexibility to invest for growth and return capital to shareholders.

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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. We're talking about real returns. That's your return piece. There's one little tweak here.

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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

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

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

MAY 9, 2024

We will also offer some perspective on our strength and balance sheet position and profitable growth with the recent divestiture of a non-core business as well as elaborate on our product strategy and our commitment to driving strong return on invested capital. First, let me remind you of some of the core fundamentals of FiscalNote.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

We achieved these results against an increasingly promotional environment and softening industry metrics by leveraging our market advantages and focusing on regular-price selling, driving improved customer service, and controlling costs. As these costs are now fully amortized, Q2 will be the last quarter we report on these headwinds.

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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. I'll now turn it over to. Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These ones are the result of having our products available on a single integrated platform, and we are excited to deliver an enhanced omnichannel experience for consumer lending in the spring, further leveraging the technology we acquired in the SimpleNexus transaction. revenues were $23.4

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

We will also offer some perspective on our strengthened balance sheet position with the recent divestiture of one of our noncore businesses, which underscores our focused product strategy and our commitment to driving a strong return on invested capital. We have an operational foundation that drives extremely high operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

These required significant investment and the markets have not seen the growth in profitability we had expected over the past several years. We see an opportunity to shift these resources toward strategic areas that have a higher potential return on investment, and we continue to drive toward our goal.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The decrease in GAAP gross profit was driven by the impacts of the NuVasive merger, namely step-up inventory amortization. Adjusted gross profit, which excludes the impacts of inventory step-up amortization, was 65.5%. in the prior year, driven again by the impact of step-up amortization as a result of the NuVasive merger.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements about our new organization and governance structure, strategies, and business plans, as well as our beliefs and expectations about our business prospects such as the future growth of our business, revenue, and return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Nexxen has built and developed an incredibly advanced tech and data stack that not only helps customers navigate these challenges but also enables them to drive enhanced return on investment and reach their target audiences regardless of where they consume content.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

per share, amortization of acquired intangibles of $0.38 International was also an important contributor with strong revenue growth in the quarter, driven by our B2B business, while we are also seeing success in leveraging our hospital and health systems offerings to unlock new public health system opportunities. Your line is open.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Non-GAAP gross margin, excluding the amortization of inquired tangibles, was 73%. We're also expecting continued opex leverage this year, especially within G&A. We expect that, as we grow this year, leveraging that fixed cost is a big deal. Opex leverage, another hallmark. Fourth quarter GAAP gross margin was 70%.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

The interests of our shareholders, clients, and employees will always be well served by Core Labs' resilient culture which relies on innovation, leveraging technology to solve problems, and dedicated customer services. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was 3.9 Our leverage ratio improved to 1.85 million or down 7.9

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

One important component of this strategy is innovation to solve customers' most pressing needs, aligned with market growth trends, and generate a strong return on investment. This industry-leading machine, which leverages 30 existing and pending patents, is the world's most powerful all-terrain horizontal directional drill.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To gain share, we will leverage our sales network to broaden and accelerate distribution of Moritex products and we will leverage our combined R&D capabilities to accelerate innovation. Excluding acquisition costs and intangible amortization, we expect the deal to be immediately accretive to EPS in 2024.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This resulted in higher realized iron ore premiums, but more importantly, higher margins and returns on invested capital. 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 26, 2023

compounded annually, which will allow us to use our cash flow generation to pay down debt and rebuild the balance sheet as we work toward investment-grade leverage metrics. We are also working to further leverage and monetize our industry-leading land-based assets in the Caribbean and Alaska. And then -- is that the right math?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. This improvement was primarily fueled by our collection and disposal business benefiting from the robust operating leverage of our strategic cost optimization. Thank you so much.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

That's a tremendous opportunity for us to leverage our extensive capabilities and consumer insights to develop innovative new products to better serve the needs of our consumers. Excluding amortization, adjusted gross margin was 57.5%. So, we balance all of that in the most effective way that maximizes the return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations and sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, rightsize the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. The increase of $6.1

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For those who don't know what EBITDA is, it's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, so think of it as earnings before really everything that matters. Now they're selling a lot of AI services that have a good return on investment. A lot of their incentives are tied to that.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

As you can see, we are focused on leveraging our strong reputation in the marketplace to position Blink to compete and win in the short midterm, while also continue to structurally adjusting the company for sustainable long-term growth. So when we do a DC fast charger, we do it for a return on investment in the short term.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

You see it leverages our continuous account circulation engine. This gives advanced notice to those payroll administrators on potential issues that may arise and really leverages that power of data anomaly connection and AI to cut through the complexities that face their business. Or are you seeing ongoing health into spending mood?

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