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Our Q3 adjusted EBITDA results reflect a continuation of our strong gross margin performance, our disciplined approach to cost management, and the ongoing benefits of fixed cost leverage as we scale. Like, no relative leverage from the extra week. Not meaningful from a capitalinvestment perspective. million or 6.7%
And it reflects our confidence in the increasing capital efficiency of our business going forward. And we continue to improve our capital efficiency by leveraging technology and innovation across both our foundational and emerging assets. That is one of the key advantages of operating in multiple basins.
And this quarter, we reached a key financial milestone by returning to a fully unsecured capital structure. Our leverage was below 3.5 There were some conflicting reports out there at how much the capitalinvestment that was going to take. And then we also feel that where we are on the leverage is within our targets.
reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. As a result of our continued focus on balance sheet efficiency and reducing our capitalinvestment, we once again continued to migrate toward our goal of becoming land-light. million shares for over $2 billion in cash. billion revolving credit facility.
Additionally, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was transitioned to MGM Rewards, and these regular capitalinvestments into our resort operations drive continued guest visitation and increased spend. We've also made some important capitalinvestments this year in high-limit slot areas, ARIA, MGM Grand, The Bellagio is underway.
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In the middle layer, where companies seek to leverage an existing large language model, customize it with their own data, and leverage AWS' security and other features, all as a managed service, we've launched Bedrock, which is off to a very strong start with many thousands of customers using the service after just a few months.
Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, operating margins increased roughly 6 points driven by improved operating leverage through cost management and the higher gross margin noted earlier. And so, I think that focus is really helping on both execution and leverage. Now to our segment results. Thank you, guys.
The decrease of 450 basis points was driven by lower operating leverage and the revenue factors I just spoke about, as well as continued modest cost inflation of 1% to 2%. The unfavorable impact of lower operating leverage was offset by other productivity savings related primarily to logistics during the quarter. in the prior year.
This is just one example of how we leverage local trends to connect with users at an emotional level, making them feel that Free Fire is relevant and interesting. Regarding the second questions, regarding the question on the logistic investment. And second question is on the leverage in your e-commerce business model.
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And third, builders and companies of all sizes are excited about leveraging AI. While many teams will build their own models, lots of others will leverage somebody else's frontier model, customize it with their own data and seek a service that provides broad model selection and great generative AI capabilities.
Interconnection and ecosystem customer wins and use cases included payments processing company, WebPays, who is leveraging Fabric cloud router to connect to their key cloud partners and lower their networking costs. And now looking at the capital structure, please refer to Slide 8. per quarter.
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We're finding tangible ways to leverage generative AI to improve the customer, member and associate experience. We're leveraging data and large language models from others and building our own. So, whether it's that or the capitalinvestments in supply chain, what you're seeing is that we are playing offense.
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Smart capital continues to guide the pace and breadth of our global capacity expansion, and our new operating model has uncovered opportunities to build and utilize manufacturing capacity more efficiently. And now that we've paid the capital to catch up, and I'll view this catch-up capital, you know, we had no spare capacity.
Our teams worked to increase the relevancy of the ads we show to our customers by leveraging machine learning and improve our ability to measure the return on advertising spend for brands. We've also seen improvements in our working capital contributions to free cash flow. Next, let's turn to our capitalinvestments.
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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As discussed on the year-end call in February, results in 2024 reflect a combination of regulatory lag related to our capitalinvestments and inflationary pressures. It's a starting point for our climate strategy as we leverage our system already be in place in new, innovative ways to continue driving down emissions even further.
Our net leverage ratio improved with record adjusted EBITDA, which increased 25% over the first quarter with expected production and current prices, along with the remaining $14.8 This larger dividend payment highlights our unique silver-linked dividend policy, which provides additional exposure and leverage to silver prices.
In closing, our agreement with Marriott, ongoing investments into our operations and a fantastic sports entertainment backdrop in Las Vegas position us well to create operating leverage by growing our EBITDAR against our fixed rent escalators. The capitalinvestment requirement is fairly modest.
We've begun this with our strategic review of Casa Berardi, and we're evaluating extensive portfolio of exploration assets and investments to unlock value. We're implementing a rigorous capital allocation framework centered on free cash flow generation and return on investment metrics with clear hurdle rates. Turning to Slide 7.
Recall that overhead costs are allocated to multiple areas, including capitalinvestment exploration LOE and G&A. And with that kind of potential appreciation buying back shares is leveraging to our current shareholder base and a number of our shareholder base actually support the buyback pretty heavily.
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And since that time, we've been an active contributor to its growth by leveraging our pharmaceutical grade cultivation and science driven approach to product innovation. million in the quarter, inclusive of working capitalinvestment, this is down sequentially from $30.9 We first partnered with MedReleaf Australia back in 2017.
Let me now provide broader context into how we plan to leverage these funds to support our growth. We continue to invest strategically in technology by leveraging AI and cutting-edge tools to enhance efficiency across the group.
With the deleveraging from our revolver and an improvement in our adjusted EBITDA, we've also seen our net leverage ratio improved to 1.8 And as I noted previously, during the quarter, we were able to reduce our net leverage ratio to 1.8x Capitalinvestments in the quarter totaled $11.2 Capitalinvestment of $14.4
We're also providing updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. After which, we'll be happy to take your questions. at the end of the second quarter.
To simplify and provide more transparency, we are now excluding leverage from productivity while still holding our previously communicated multiyear target of $400 million, which originally included a benefit from leverage of between $50 million and $70 million. Tristan Thomas-Martin -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst Good morning.
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While we continue to maintain strong credit ratings, a solid balance sheet, and long-term earnings growth outlook of 4% to 6%, our earnings guidance for 2024 reflects a combination of lag related to our capitalinvestments and inflationary pressures that we are experiencing simultaneously. million due to additional capitalinvestments.
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Turning to our finances, revenue growth of 14% in the quarter reflect solid procedure performance and strong capital placements. Product margins were above our expectations, reflecting a combination of cost reductions, fixed overhead leverage, and some one-time nonrecurring benefits. And that's primarily driven by depreciation.
We continue to leverage our broad portfolio of our intellectual property with the licensing of game feature patents, helping to drive non-terminal revenue, up 45% in the second quarter. We invested about $200 million in capital expenditures and license obligations, resulting in free cash flow of around $264 million.
Second, using customer demand signal and time to value to manage our cost structure dynamically and generate durable long-term operating leverage. We expanded our data center footprint announcing investments across four continents. With that, let me highlight examples starting with Azure. Now to our segment results.
This year's growth capitalinvestments in the Williston are progressing on time and on budget and are primarily focused on the continued build out of the infrastructure on the western side of the Rough Rider system. billion revolving credit facility, resulting in a consolidated leverage ratio of approximately 4.25
as we deployed capital for the benefit of FPL customers and leverage our competitive advantages to extend energy resources renewable leadership position. Florida has underlying population growth and an economy that continues to drive clear investment needs. Adjusted earnings per share grew by approximately 8.6% billion and $9.5
as we deployed capital for the benefit of FPL customers and leverage our competitive advantages to extend energy resources renewable leadership position. Florida has underlying population growth and an economy that continues to drive clear investment needs. Adjusted earnings per share grew by approximately 8.6% billion and $9.5
As we think about our broader known customer base, we are fortunate to have a tremendous amount of first-party customer data for our advanced analytics capabilities to leverage. As a result, our capitalinvestments for fiscal '25 are concentrated more on existing store updates and refreshes and less on major remodels or store openings.
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