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While free cash flow was impacted in 2024 by extraordinary items, all of which we've previously communicated, including the NFP transaction and integration costs, restructuring, and legal settlement expenses, we remain confident in underlying free cash flow growth. It's a return on invested capital, cash-on-cash return.
Our investment activity in the third quarter included total investments in our lower middle market portfolio of $52 million, which after aggregate repayments on debt investments and return on invested equity capital, resulted in the net increase in our lower middle market portfolio of $2 million.
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.
And with me today are Sonos' CEO, Patrick Spence; and CFO and chief legal officer, Eddie Lazarus. Now, I will turn the call over to Eddie to provide more details on our results and our outlook, Eddie Lazarus -- Chief Legal and Financial Officer Thank you, Patrick. Eddie Lazarus -- Chief Legal and Financial Officer All right.
It has terrifically high guest satisfaction scores, which create layers of advantage, which suggests we should be able to stain -- sustain high margins and high returns on investment. With a business with that profile, you invest in it. It's a 25-plus margin business and has been for an extended period of time.
In fact, there's a wonderful little article in Reuters that captured the comments of some of those few companies. The better way to look at this is actually the return on investment. That's this legal process by after someone passes away, the courts validate the will. It is a legal document.
billion, and we delivered a return on invested capital of nearly 14%, putting Delta's returns in the top half of the S&P 500. Peter Carter -- Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary Hey, Mike. per share, a $0.20 Free cash flow was $1.4 How does that play out? It's Peter Carter.
And following the Fitch upgrade in July, our balance sheet now has two investment-grade ratings and our dividend yield is in line with the S&P 500. We are focused on finishing the year strong, delivering industry-leading performance with a return-to-earnings growth and margin expansion, positioning us well as we head into 2025.
The largest single factor in the year-on-year decline in G&A expenses was lower charges related to legal matters. And how are we thinking about the return on invested capital with this AI capex cycle? Operating income was $27.4 billion, up 26%, and our operating margin was 32%. Net income was $23.6 billion and EPS was $1.89.
Our strategy is underpinned by a commitment to financial performance, with a focus on free cash flow, return on invested capital, and earnings durability. Delivering these financial results also positions us to reduce our leverage ratio to three times by the end of the year and significantly improve our return on invested capital.
Our guidance assumes, among other things, that we don't conclude any additional business acquisitions, restructurings or legal settlements. And then we see the revenue, operating income and free cash flow benefit for years to come after that, with strong returns on invested capital. And now I'll turn the call over to Andy.
As I've discussed on prior calls, we remain focused on reducing our capital intensity and continuing to provide increased stockholder returns, as well as maintaining a strong balance sheet, prudent capital allocation, and improving return on invested capital. Capital expenditures for the quarter were $1.4
The increase in SG&A was primarily associated with increased restructuring costs in the period from settling the leases from company-owned transition studios and increased legal fees to address regulatory inquiries. This range translates into roughly 39% adjusted EBITDA margin at the midpoint and is unchanged from the previous guidance.
While we're pleased with our top-line results, operating income was below our guidance due to higher-than-anticipated expenses, largely certain legal accruals. Store remodel costs were also higher as we rolled out 117 of our flagship design stores earlier this month, and legal expenses increased. from 4% to 4.5%
times or said another way, a return on investment of 41% for a property, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, that is now the youngest in our Las Vegas portfolio with the attending low capex requirement. Backing out the change to cash rent with these transactions results in a net increase of $188 million on $460 million of capital.
Capital expenditures totaled $620 million in Q4 as we continue to invest in strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability. And lastly, we delivered a return on invested capital above 36% for the year. So back to the two themes, it's mainly the cycling of the legal settlements and the deleverage on lower sales.
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The increase was primarily driven by a benefit from a legal settlement that we are overlapping from the first quarter of fiscal 2023 as well as deleverage from our top-line results. From time to time, we will also invest in the business through acquisitions to enhance our capabilities and to accelerate our strategic objectives.
We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations, sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, right-size the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital.
Lastly, we made substantial progress on certain legacy compliance and legal matters, including resolving our Janssen settlement for which Emergent received a $50 million payment. The more we can do those types of things, obviously, the better return on investment for our shareholders. So, we're going to be focused on it.
They have continued to drive a strong return on investment. All in, though, we're really really excited about their great return on investment, great acquisition of new customers for our total banner -- our total brand. We do expect there to be some legal challenges too, I suspect. So, I'll start there.
Our guidance assumes, among other things, that we don't conclude any additional business acquisitions, restructurings, or legal settlements. It's not possible to accurately predict demand for our goods and services, and therefore, our actual results could differ materially from our guidance. And now I'll turn the call over to Andy.
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We've designed our capital investment programs to ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. We believe our approach will enable us to grow faster in the long term, grow our share of EBITDA in the Macao market, and generate industry-leading returns on invested capital.
Recycling capital in this way keeps our portfolio competitive, lower its capital expenses, and accelerates our return on invested capital, driving long-term core FFO growth. per share and are primarily legal expenses and expense transaction pursuit costs. billion in apartments with an average age of four years, developed 4.2
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.
and foreign operations related to a legal entity restructuring implemented in anticipation of the IPO and separation. As Steph mentioned, we will take a disciplined approach to that M&A, balancing profitable growth with return on invested capital. The effective tax rate for 2023 was 24.3%, compared to 19.6%
So, as you think about -- you think about 2024 and opex, we're going to -- we've kept a similar run rate for legal, not the fourth quarter run rate but the full year. The legal environment is pretty challenging right now, and cost overall of settlements and trials and all that are much higher than they have been historically.
of sales, down 137 basis points versus last year's adjusted SG&A, driven by sales deleverage, as well as the cycling of a favorable legal settlement. per share and repurchased 3 million shares for $743 million, returning $1.4 times, and we delivered a return on invested capital above 32%. SG&A was 18.8%
And again, return on invested capital-based, content-based in every way, shape, or form. First question is about the Vesttoo legal settlement. We've communicated legal settlements and, as Eric just said, expect those to flow through over the next several years, noting there will be meaningful recoveries. Good morning.
I'd like to start by congratulating Erica Burkhardt, who was recently promoted to chief legal officer and corporate secretary for Yum! and a key driver of our performance is the strength of our talent base, including our deep bench of amazing leaders always ready to take on bigger roles. who has been with the company for over 20 years.
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And finally, during fiscal 2023, we returned approximately $8 billion to our shareholders in the form of share repurchases, including $1.5 Computed on the average of beginning and ending long-term debt and equity for the trailing 12 months, return on invested capital was 36.7%, compared to 44.6% billion in the fourth quarter.
Actual results could differ materially from our expectations, and we have no duty to provide updates unless legally required. Is a dividend in the works to at least provide some return on investment? Before getting started, I want to remind you that today's call will contain forward-looking statements. This one is for Jason.
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We made a number of significant decisions and identified the programs we want to prioritize and others where we assess the challenges resulted in a low probability-adjusted return on investment and thus were promptly modified or discontinued. and EU sometime later in 2023.
G&A for the quarter was $191 million on a GAAP basis or $175 million on a non-GAAP basis, excluding about $12 million related to equity awards granted for retention of key executives, and a $4 million increase in legal reserves. Jon Tower -- Analyst OK. Maybe switching gears to the marketing front.
These additional earnings would bolster Realty Income's return on investment while ensuring incentives between public and private investors are aligned. We have a very large legal team that we are going to leverage that obviously is a massive source of pride for us given that we do a majority of the work in-house.
And of course, we were pleased this month to welcome Amy Tu into the role of chief legal and compliance officer. So now I want to end my commentary on the quarter by covering our after-tax return on invested capital, which is an important measure of the quality of both our financial results and our capital investments.
in the second quarter, down 19 basis points from last year due to continuing supply chain investments, partly offset by lower transportation costs and ongoing PPI initiatives. of sales delevered 87 basis points due to sales deleverage, as well as the cycling of a favorable legal settlement. Gross margin was 33.5%
This also meaningfully extends the production life of our installed capacity and improves our returns on investments, similar to the announcement last quarter of our Tower Semiconductor partnership at the 65-nanometer node with our New Mexico site. Our success with IFS will be measured by customer commitments and revenue.
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