The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While we continue to pursue growth opportunities, the company will remain focused on its three long-standing, long-term financial tenets, those being to; maximize free cash flow, maximize return on invested capital, and returning excess free cash to our shareholders. I'll now turn it over to. Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The driving force behind Copilot's adoption is the measurable return on investment it offers. Additionally, in Q3, we funded a $30 million settlement related to right of publicity lawsuits, providing avoidance of future litigation costs and liabilities. We estimate that this will save us more than $100 million going forward.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

While we navigate through the current challenges and pursue growth opportunities, the company will remain focused on its three long-standing, long-term financial tenants, those being to maximize free cash flow, maximize return on invested capital, and returning excess free cash to our shareholders. Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

And this quarter, there is quite a meaningful boost from contract liabilities, so the SEK 6.5 Sorry, I get the inventory going down, but contract liabilities is a separate thing. At the same time, the industry has a problem with return on investments. Joe Zhou -- Barclays -- Analyst OK. It's just that specific item.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

With these last couple of acquisitions, it's starting to speak that same language about cost and opportunity and return on investment. But this is one of the first times I've seen a board level perspective on this, where we're starting to think a little bit more about corporate liability. That's what a lot of the piece got into.

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Hedgestone

JULY 10, 2023

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

In the factory, we're beginning to see early returns on investments in production, including robotics, our patented automated mold polishing process, and machine perception in our quality verification process. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

million, largely as a result of the finalization of the SEC investigation, and the settlement of the class action and a decrease in the cost of directors and officers liability insurance premium in the amount of $0.4 Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Two additional key performance indicators that management will be discussing on this call are net asset value, or NAV, and return on equity, or ROE. NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per share basis. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Are the results meeting or exceeding our expectations for return on investment? Next question comes from John Bair, and he says a recent article in the Wall Street Journal headlines Ocean Freight Rate Pressures, which highlight a significant drop in East Coast to China shipping costs among other routes.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

The increase in R&D was driven primarily by compensation, which was affected by lapping a reduction in valuation-based compensation liabilities in certain Other Bets in the second quarter last year followed by depreciation. And how are we thinking about the return on invested capital with this AI capex cycle?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The difference with others is our liability that we settled for is quite a bit higher than our insurance -- total insurance value. And then, just thinking about kind of the capital deployment question, you stepped up on buyback a bit in the quarter in spite of writing a sizable liability check. It's at about $700 million.

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Lakehouse Capital

JULY 17, 2022

The following is a Lakehouse Capital feature article published on 18th July, 2022. In addition, executive officers are required to invest 75% of their after-tax bonus into common shares of CSU to be held in escrow for a minimum period of four years, after which officers may choose to receive the entire bonus in cash.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

You made a comment when you were talking about the Fourmile vend-in that as long as a joint venture meets a return on invested capital, did you mean the Fourmile meeting the return on invested capital, or the joint venture itself, the whole Nevada Gold Mines? And then, we have been dealing with these liabilities.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But we will continue to evaluate it as we always do and to make sure that hold ourselves to a strict return on investment threshold. But this is a team that is just very disciplined around ensuring that we're using our capital judiciously and we're looking for every opportunity to maximize return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

As you may know, there's a pretty heated debate in the market on your customers and customers' customers return on investment and what that means for the sustainability of capex going forward. What's on your dashboard as you try to gauge customer return and how that impacts capex? That's a tremendous return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

We will remain financially disciplined and evaluate each node in the network based on the return on investment and the timing of the impact to the P&L. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. million, up 1.2% million last year.

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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. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also talked last quarter about how we're undertaking a fundamental rebuild of our machine learning stack and data infrastructure and using AI to enhance the return on investment we're able to deliver to our advertising customers. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Unity Software.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

This allows us to serve the most relevant ad, maximizing engagement and return on investment. 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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We continue to make progress on the remaining leases and expect to have entered settlement agreements with landlords for substantially all remaining lease liabilities by the end of the year. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

and a trailing 12-month return on invested capital of 10%. And it was interesting, there's a recent article out by PCA that suggests that the inflationary impact on the infrastructure spend could be somewhere in the range of 25% to 30%. CMC reported net earnings for the fourth quarter of $103.9 million or $0.90

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

With strong cash generation, we continue to progress our balance sheet back toward investment-grade metrics and announced a 50% increase to our quarterly dividend. We delivered a return on invested capital of 13%, 5 points above our cost of capital and in the top half of the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But again, like Prashanth said, we will be very disciplined in terms of those acquisitions because the bar for return on investment is quite high at our shop right now. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Nikhil Devnani -- Analyst Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We are encouraged to see that this new user cohorts are purchasing bigger basket sizes than older cohorts, giving us better returns on investments and improving our unit economics. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As we've noted before, the customer acquisition spend, we invest to drive returns and cash flow has synergy across more than just senior shopping for Medicare Advantage policies. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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, rightsize the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. Debt less cash on hand as of October 31, 2023 was $37.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

We're leaning into areas where the return on investment is the strongest, specifically large transactions and our best industry verticals. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Appian's particular advantage is at the high end of our market.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 12, 2024

So, that's the return on investment that attracts and keeps us going at this game. Muse -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst William Stein -- Truist Securities -- Analyst More AVGO analysis All earnings call transcripts This article is a transcript of this conference call produced for The Motley Fool. And this is more than a game.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

While platform conversions with enterprise customers often have longer sales cycles and take time to deploy, once implemented, they are accretive to revenue and margin and create a return on investment for our customers. We see the same articles. David Wilkinson -- Chief Executive Officer Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

So far this year, we've realized nearly $3 billion in gross proceeds from bottler refranchising and streamlining our equity investments. Return on invested capital is 24%, up approximately five points from three years ago. The liability does, however, continue to grow. Good morning.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 27, 2024

I mean, one it is obviously asset-light, and it's a great driver of return on investment capital. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Andrew McLean -- Chief Executive Officer We're going to accelerate that, Alex. We stepped into it.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Furthermore, we have continued to open new stores at a highly attractive returns on investment and have continued to opportunistically return capital to shareholders in a highly accretive manner. We are very pleased with the performance of our new stores, which continue to generate highly attractive returns on investment.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

Rack stores that were opened last year are performing well delivering a solid return on investment while attracting new customers. We've opened a lot of Rack stores and our return on investment is pretty darn consistent. We're planning to open 12 more new Rack stores this year ahead of the holiday season.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

So, there is an intense focus in the company culturally on return on invested capital. 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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