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OCTOBER 27, 2024

AT&T's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) rose 3.4% billion year over year , helping reduce its leverage ratio from 2.99 With its free cash flow rising and its leverage ratio falling, AT&T's high-yielding dividend is growing safer. That's enabling the company to repay debt.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

The new collaboration will enable Enbridge to leverage AI powered by Microsoft Azure machine learning across its operations. million) of recurring earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) savings per year. That makes it a lower-risk way to earn an attractive return in the AI age. million-$219.9

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Herbalife quoted CFO John DeSimone as saying that the company paid down debt during the quarter and "Our total leverage ratio is down to 3.3 times at September 30 and we are on track to reduce our total leverage ratio to 3.0 Investors cheered not only the bottom-line beat but also news of a balance sheet getting cleaner.

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APRIL 1, 2024

The move will expand Home Depot's addressable market by an estimated $50 billion, but the company said it would suspend share buybacks until it returns to its target-debt leverage of two times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Home Depot.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Enbridge currently gets 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from stable cost-of-service or contracted assets. The company currently boasts an investment-grade credit rating backed by a leverage ratio toward the low end of its 4.5-5.0 times target range.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

PDD leverages its huge short-video user base to offer livestreaming e-commerce services, an area where Alibaba was the incumbent. To this end, Alibaba is embracing a low-cost strategy and leveraging its logistics arm (Cainiao) and artificial intelligence to provide a better e-commerce experience to consumers.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

KMI Financial Debt to EBITDA (TTM) data by YCharts That said, a part of the problem was Kinder Morgan's more aggressive use of leverage than its peers'. Kinder Morgan's leverage is lower today, but it still tends to use more leverage than Enterprise. In 2020 the dividend ended up being increased by just 5%.

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JULY 1, 2024

Meanwhile, its balance sheet is in good shape with a leverage ratio (net debt/adjusted EBITDA ) of just 3.2 < Situated in the right basins, MPLX looks in good shape to continue growing its distributions, while its forward enterprise value (EV) -to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) valuation of 9.6

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Companies typically adjusts their earnings by removing non-cash items (like depreciation and amortization) and realized and unrealized investment losses. Essentially, it is looking to capture the income being generated by the business's investments, which is primarily influenced by its net interest spread and how much leverage it is carrying.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

But a week containing positive news can make a big difference in a portfolio's returns. But adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) soared 43% on a comparable basis year over year. The company's work to improve profitability and lower debt levels has investors returning to the stock this week.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Restaurant-level profit margin, a key industry metric, improved from 11% to 16%, and Sweetgreen's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) loss narrowed from $17.9 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. million to $1.8 per share to $0.24

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MAY 17, 2024

That makes logical sense, given that, historically, around 57% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) came from oil pipelines, with another 28% from natural gas pipelines. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

On the other hand, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) held steady at $204.6 On the earnings call, CFO Rich Bressler noted that the debt-to-EBITDA leverage ratio should drop from 7.2x The company reported a net loss of $41.3 today to approximately 3.2 at the end of 2028.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Q3 earnings preview for Block For the third quarter, Block has guided for a headline 17% year-over-year increase in the gross profit while forecasting $695 million in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), accelerating by 46% from last year. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Block.

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MARCH 17, 2024

The industry's long-term issue comes down to its inability to generate a return on capital necessary to cover its cost of capital. Delta Air Lines 2022 2023 Long-Term Target Return on invested capital 8.40% 13.40% Mid-teens Weighted average cost of capital 8% 8% 8% Data source: Delta Air Lines. billion at the end of 2022 to $29.2

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MAY 11, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 Enterprise ended the quarter with leverage of 3x. It defines leverage as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. cents per unit. cents per unit.

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AUGUST 24, 2024

Further, its distributable cash flow payout ratio is well within management's target range of 60% to 70% The balance sheet is also healthy: Leverage is well within management's target range of 4.5 to 5 times debt to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, deprecation, and amortization). ENB Dividend Yield data by YCharts.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As the only end-to-end digital presence platform in the market, we believe we are uniquely capable of leveraging our combined capabilities to accelerate the pace of innovation and deliver additional value to our customers and partners," said CEO Michael Walrath. Narrow guidance for the fiscal year Yext also raised its fiscal 2025 guidance.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) and SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) are two small-caps attempting to leverage unique AI-powered applications into long-term growth. The company reported a loss on Q2 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of $3.7 Image source: Getty Images. The case for BigBear.ai

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

That's the lowest leverage among the company's closest peers (and would actually be low for any company in any industry). Simply put, low leverage gives Chevron the wherewithal to prosper in any oil market. When oil prices recover, as they always have, Chevron reduces its leverage in preparation for the next downturn.

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MARCH 24, 2024

billion of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and $5.3 leverage ratio , which falls in the middle of its 2.75-3.25 While MPLX doesn't have quite as high a credit rating, at BBB, its leverage ratio is only slightly higher at 3.3, Last year, MPLX produced $6.3 target range.

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MAY 31, 2024

At the end of 2023 -- the foreign-based company reports financials only twice a year -- its debt-to-EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) ratio was roughly 4.7. EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. That compares with 3.6 for Philip Morris International and 2.2

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APRIL 23, 2024

The natural gas pipeline giant recently showcased its commitment to maintaining a conservative financial profile by adjusting its targeted- leverage ratio. Adjusting the target Kinder Morgan unveiled in its first-quarter earnings report that it's adjusting its long-term leverage target. times to its leverage ratio this year.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Meanwhile, the company said it was seeing selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) leverage, as 40% of its order volume is now benefiting from automation. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) soared 60% to $0.24.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

The company has also lowered its debt balance with net debt down from $775 million to $690 million, and it's aiming to bring its leverage ratio down to two-to-three times adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). Can Hain keep climbing? Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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JULY 25, 2024

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) edged up 2.5% Verizon's balance sheet is also in solid shape, with the leverage ratio on unsecured debt (net unsecured debt/trailing-12-month adjusted EBITDA) coming in at 2.5. billion consensus. Meanwhile, it has paid out dividends of $5.6

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ( EBITDA ) for 2025. When compared with the company's $7 billion-plus in net debt, that's still a high leverage ratio. That means New Fortress remains a high-risk, leveraged bet on LNG prices going forward.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) rose 2.5% Its leverage ratio on unsecured debt (net unsecured debt/trailing-12-month adjusted EBITDA) remained at 2.5. Verizon now plans to end 2025 with a leverage ratio on unsecured debt of between 2 to 2.25 Its adjusted EPS came $0.01

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

So leverage is a notable issue in the midstream sector. Enterprise has long operated with a highly conservative amount of leverage, showing up near the bottom of the debt-to- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) list year after year. They are also very expensive to build.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

And it forecast a margin of 32% to 34% for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), which is slightly better than its 31% margin in fiscal 2024. Management deserves praise for its success so far, but considering the leverage involved, it can be a risky strategy when things go wrong.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Gill helped spark the meme-stock run from a few years ago, but had been absent on social media the past three years before returning in May of this year. However, pet ownership has been on the rise in the past three decades, and Chewy expects 2025 to return more to normal trends. Its Q2 gross margins rose 120 basis points to 29.5%

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APRIL 12, 2024

The other thing that can impact dividend payouts is debt and leverage. In order to sustain dividends, companies need to keep their leverage within a reasonable range. billion in debt and leverage (net debt/consolidated adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA )) of 3.1

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Grab's user base also continued to grow, reaching 41 million monthly transacting users, and profit margins improved as well with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) up from $64 million to $81 million. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

Strength in that segment helped drive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) up 124% to $28.9 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

With interest rates likely headed lower over the next few years as the Fed embarks on a rate-cutting cycle, income-oriented investors may be looking for places to invest that can offer higher yields and attractive returns. EV to EBITDA = enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization).

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AUGUST 6, 2024

as the company benefited from lower input and quality costs and improved leverage on plant-related expenses. That drove adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to jump from $9 million to $35.1 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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