The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This is money that could have otherwise been reinvested into Carnival's business or returned to shareholders. However, one goal may be even more important than all of these : reducing debt. On top of interest expense, the debt principal also has to be paid down -- with the sum ramping up from $1.8 billion in 2025 to a staggering $8.8

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

Generating positive free cash flow (FCF) every year since the turn of the century, the stock has delivered total returns of 3,600% over that time -- or seven times the S&P 500 index's return. Should you invest $1,000 in MTY Food Group right now? is down 40% from its high.

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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. billion in debt due by the end of 2025.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

Earnings season is here, and Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) shareholders have every right to be tense. The stock has been a big winner in 2023 -- up 77% year to date through Monday's close -- so it will need to justify that surge by delivering a blowout second-quarter performance. Roku has delivered on the earnings stage so far this year.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2023

Ideally, your nest egg will generate passive income, so you don't need to sell your investments to live off of them. Mature, profitable companies with long track records of paying shareholders, and also increasing the amount they pay yearly, can be a strong foundation for any retirement portfolio. Dividends can do this well.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2023

Carnival also proposes the formidable goal of attaining a 12% adjusted return on invested capital (ROIC), an extraordinary feat that involves more than doubling the 2023 adjusted ROIC by 2026, reaching an unprecedented level. billion in cash and equivalents to help keep operations afloat, Carnival shows no signs of sinking soon.

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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. In simplest terms, when a company's ROIC is higher than its WACC, shareholder value is created.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Thank you pricing hikes for Chipotle shareholders. For the smoke brisket, I personally don't eat beef, so I'm not as excited, but as a shareholder of Chipotle and a fan of Chipotle, I think it's fantastic. Accounting treatment says you should start amortizing those every year. We're talking about real returns.

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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. Looking ahead, we will remain highly focused on our disciplined capital allocation approach, balancing capex optimization, accretive growth, and strong shareholder returns. billion in the quarter.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 238

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

The company estimates it could generate an additional $300 million of annual adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from this business in the coming years. So, with dividends reinvested, Enterprise Products stock generated nearly 42% returns for shareholders in the past five years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The board has decided those are the three things that are actually driving the most shareholder value. In the short term, we made some trade-offs, some strategic trade-offs that Hans and I feel very good about to drive shareholder value. But where does the value come for Verizon and its shareholders? We know how it feels.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2024

Beginning this quarter, in addition to our GAAP measures, we are providing the following non-GAAP measures: adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, and adjusted diluted earnings per share, which excludes noncash amortization of acquired intangible assets. billion in dividends to our shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories' second quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $3.8 Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories third-quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $3.7 Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories second quarter 2023 earnings call. In addition, we'll review Core's strategies and the three financial tenets that the company employs to build long-term shareholder value. G&A x items for the quarter was 8.7

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

We are continuing to advance our key strategic priorities to drive shareholder value by accelerating profitable growth, driving productivity and operational excellence, and empowering our people. Throughout the quarter, we advanced our enterprise strategic priorities to drive shareholder value for the long term.

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What it might be going on here is a bit of investment. When you invest in your capital base and make it bigger, that lowers your return on invested capital. As a shareholder, you want that asset base to be big and get bigger because this is a company that's got to scale up. What is going on here? Also humongous.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

After acquiring Moritex, we have sufficient capital to continue to support our organic growth objectives and M&A plans and for continuing to return capital to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. We are excited about the returns that this investment can deliver.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Since joining the company seven weeks ago, I've been evaluating, together with the team, all aspects of our business, our strategic direction and priorities, our product offerings in terms of current performance and market potential, the outlook for our business units, and where we can drive improved performance and long-term shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

Excluding amortization, adjusted gross margin was 57.5%. As we look ahead, we remain committed to investing in our business for the long term with an eye toward delivering attractive total shareholder returns in a balanced way, which brings me to our capital allocation philosophy. Now, turning to gross margins.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

As these costs are now fully amortized, Q2 will be the last quarter we report on these headwinds. This was after investing $43 million in capital expenditures supporting our long-term growth and returning over 69 million to our shareholders through quarterly dividends and share repurchases. Occupancy costs, at 10.9%

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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. And with that, I'll now turn the call over to Mark.

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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 3, 2023

Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the shareholder letter, historical financial information spreadsheet and investor day materials on our investor relations website. You'll find everything else from the quarter in the shareholder letter we posted an hour ago.

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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 continue to enjoy strong gross margins. Sales and marketing costs were $10.5

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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 includes investing in our high-return sustainability growth projects, acquiring accretive businesses, and returning cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.

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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

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. Essentially, we've pull forward our most important sustainability goal and expect a step change in both profitability and return on invested capital in just three years.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Non-GAAP gross margin, excluding the amortization of inquired tangibles, was 73%. Everett's done a really nice job of leading this team, but we see such strong return on investment there that we are going to raise some investment there. Precision oncology revenue of 160 million grew 12%, or 11% on a core basis.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Our third-quarter operating income was $273 million, which included depreciation and amortization and accretion of $78 million, round cost of $25 million, production stage expense of $12 million, and share-based compensation expense of $8 million. Since our last earnings call, we have continued to make steady progress on this journey.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

As we look forward, we will continue to execute our business strategy, which, at its core, is based on technology differentiation, a laser focus on performance, and value delivery for our customers and shareholders. To support this strategy, we are prioritizing investment in our capacity and capabilities. In 2023, we invested over 2.9

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

Looking ahead, management also gave new long-term guidance, calling for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) per available passenger berth day (ALBD/APBD) to increase by 50% by 2026, reaching its highest level in almost two decades.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In our shareholder letter last year, Steve and I wrote about the three factors that have defined Wayfair at our best. We're able to make these investments, because of the considerable financial discipline we've exhibited over the past three years as we continually improve multiple areas of the P&L. I talk a lot about that.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Today's presentation will also include certain non-GAAP measures, including, but not limited to, adjusted operating margin, adjusted diluted earnings per share, and return on invested capital. Excluding intangible asset amortization in the quarter, our adjusted operating margin for the fourth quarter was 11.7%, compared to 12.1%

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 214

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Amortization Leveraging Assets 214