The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2023

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.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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 Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

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.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 21, 2023

Number 2, you have this brand danger from pirating, which I think the article mentioned. This seemed to have come from a CEO who is only focused on the numbers going back to the article. The return on investment for hiring a financial professional get that second opinion might be smaller.

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Hedgestone

JULY 3, 2023

In this article, we will guide you through the process of valuing a restaurant business, step by step. In contrast, a restaurant with significant liabilities, such as outstanding debts or legal liabilities, is likely to be less valuable.

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Hedgestone

JULY 10, 2023

In this article, we’ll provide a comprehensive guide to help you understand how to value a landscape business. It’s a crucial step in the buying and selling of businesses, and it’s also necessary for tax purposes, financial reporting, and legal matters.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

million was mainly due to a decrease in our legal expenses in the amount of $1.6 As with all our articles, The Motley Fool does not assume any responsibility for your use of this content, and we strongly encourage you to do your own research, including listening to the call yourself and reading the company's SEC filings.

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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.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

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%

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Hedgestone

JULY 10, 2023

In this article, we’ll provide you with a comprehensive guide on how to buy a closed business, including the steps to take, the challenges to overcome, and how HedgeStone Business Advisors can help. It’s important to conduct thorough due diligence to ensure that the business you’re interested in is a good investment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

We've also built a dedicated government solutions team stack with experience: sales, customer service, sales administration, and legal teams with a shared goal of supporting successful government procurement and providing best-in-class fulfillment and service at every level of the government.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

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%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In short, we believe these changes enhance our competitive position by elevating the value of our identity graph and further improving the effectiveness and return on investment for the ZMP for engagement. Our observations pre and post their rollout show equal to, and in some cases, even better deliverability and higher open ranks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We also had extraordinary legal expenses of approximately $800,000 in the fourth quarter. It allows us to optimize the restaurant, both from an efficiency standpoint but also from a return-on-investment standpoint. Todd Brooks -- The Benchmark Company -- Analyst OK. And, Tom, one for you.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

We generated $721 million of free cash flow year-to-date, reflecting strong operating income growth and lower capex, offset by payments related to NFP transaction and integration charges, legal settlement expense, restructuring, and higher cash tax payments as we've previously communicated. So everything is in the construct of that.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

But again, that's all in the optionality going forward and how we'll choose it but getting back to the actual legal basis on which we can manage this, I'll pass it to Graham. And there is a way to develop Fourmile on a stand-alone basis. There's definitely a way to do it. Anita Soni -- Analyst Hi, Mark. Anita again.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There's no reason why being good and reducing waste and improving throughput doesn't extend to how we run R&D, how you run a legal function, HR function, finance. We have a strong return on investment in the spaces. And I think when you do across the whole enterprise, you really start to become a much better company.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

Please note that it also includes the benefit of a one-time legal settlement. Additionally, we delivered return on invested capital of 27.8%, inclusive of a 750-basis-point impact related to transaction costs associated with the sale of our Canadian retail business and the discrete gain we reported in Q1. SG&A of 16.4%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

Jeffrey Graves, president and chief executive officer; Michael Turner, executive vice president and chief financial officer; and Andrew Johnson, executive vice president, chief corporate development officer, and chief legal officer. The webcast portion of this call contains a slide presentation that we will refer to during the call.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

Behind each of these drivers is the need to make AI more actionable with more relevant personalization, more impactful marketing programs and more measurable return on investment. We're seeing encouraging returns on investments across product development, sales, and marketing.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

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.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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.

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