The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 1, 2024

One factor driving its elevated yield is concerns that the company's hefty debt level might impact its ability to sustain that payout over the long term. The company's debt is on track to balloon further after it agreed to buy Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FYBR) in a $20 billion all-cash deal. billion of total debt (and $122.8

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Our improvement is a direct byproduct of our hard work integrating Amobee's technology, data assets, and talent base, which we accomplished amid challenging macroeconomic conditions, as well as our rebrand to Nexxen. Our clients can leverage this data to layer added insights onto campaigns.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 14, 2025

Princeton, which manages $1.3bn in assets, has a history of backing wellness brands like Massage Envy and D1 Training. Barrys, with its strong brand and loyal customer base, continues to outperform, leveraging the growing focus on health and wellness. The company, co-owned by.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Secondly, and simultaneously, we continue to migrate our operating platform to an asset like configuration. reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. debt to total capital ratio. million shares for over $2 billion in cash. million shares for over $2 billion in cash. We ended the quarter with $4.7

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The oil company has been slowly monetizing that position to raise cash to repay debt. The company's midstream assets generate very stable cash flow. Fee-based contracts with Occidental and other customers support 95% of its gas infrastructure and 100% of its crude oil assets, protecting it from commodity price exposure.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

These funds, which saw rapid growth between 2019 and 2021, provide fresh capital to high-potential assets, ensuring continued value creation. By leveraging their expertise and resources, firms like Audax Private Equity have implemented operational initiatives that have driven recovery, even in challenging industries.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

billion indirectly through share repurchases, all while reducing debt 35%. And we continue to improve our capital efficiency by leveraging technology and innovation across both our foundational and emerging assets. And it reflects our confidence in the increasing capital efficiency of our business going forward.

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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. On today's call, I will provide my usual update regarding our performance in the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

The company operates as a business development corporation ( BDC ) and invests in debt or equity in mid-sized companies that banks overlook. BDCs tend to use leverage to help boost their payouts. While this leverage can help juice returns, it could also exacerbate losses during an economic downturn.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The recent dividend cut at the Brookfield Real Assets Income Fund (NYSE: RA) led to a significant fall in the share price and called into question the sustainability of dividends in many closed-end funds. Not only do many of them come with mid-teens yields right now, but they tend to invest in a myriad of assets, which helps diversify risk.

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 8, 2025

BlackRock made headlines in late 2024 through the firms acquisition of HPS Investment Partners , backed by their expectation that the private debt market will more than double to $4.5 The sector has become extremely attractive for investors, with LPs and asset managers pouring money into private credit. trillion by 2030. [2]

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

We believe the introduction of spot bitcoin ETPs further evidences the maturation of bitcoin as an institutional grade asset class with broader regulatory recognition and institutional adoption. Debt financing. billion in debt through the issuance of both senior secured notes and convertible notes. We've issued $3.2

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Instead, it's a highly leveraged yen "carry trade" that has led to billions of dollars in selling and liquidations starting in the crypto market on Sunday night. Very few assets are up today, but the notable moves are the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) falling 2.99% and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) losing 3.7% treasuries.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

They also have geographic diversification via global asset portfolios. At the end of the first quarter of 2024, Exxon had a debt-to-equity ratio of roughly 0.2. Chevron's debt-to-equity ratio was even lower at 0.14. The next-closest peer had a debt-to-equity ratio of around 0.4 The best time to buy?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 7, 2023

Midstream companies like Enbridge own pipelines and other assets that help to move energy and largely charge fees for the use of their assets. It also needs to have a sound financial foundation, otherwise cash will have to be put toward debt reduction and interest costs instead of dividend payments.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Carnelian Energy Capital, the private equity owner of Ridgemar Energy, is exploring the sale of the US-based oil and gas producer, aiming for a valuation exceeding $1bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters. Likewise, Point Energy Partners, supported by Vortus Investments, sold assets to Vital Energy and Northern Oil and Gas.

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Private Equity Professional

APRIL 3, 2025

Limited partners in SCF II include both new and returning SCF I investors such as pension plans, insurance companies, family offices, and asset managers from the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Image source: Getty Images Americans have a lot of misunderstandings about debt, especially when considering small business loans. Small business loan debt is a tool Too often, Americans think that being in debt is some kind of moral failing or weakness. But debt is not inherently bad or good -- debt is a tool.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

According to Reuters sources, the transaction, which could be announced as early as Monday, will see constellation pay mostly stock, with a small cash component, with the purchase price including around $12bn of Calpine debt which the buyer will absorb.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Net-asset-value (NAV) loans, which layer additional leverage onto private companies already burdened with significant debt, have come under scrutiny, particularly when buyout firms use them to fund distributions rather than growth. Now theres much more discussion with investors, more transparency and more education.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Since our last earnings call on April 30, I am pleased to announce that we are making solid progress on our path forward of one, simplifying the business; two, operational performance improvement and three, reducing leverage. On asset sales, in the second quarter we sold an outparcel deal for $7.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

A Chapter 7 bankruptcy (or BK, as we call it) would eliminate most or all of their debts and they would get a clean slate. If you find yourself in debt and you would rather not or cannot file BK, do you have options? Negotiations and debt settlement One way out is to negotiate with your creditors. Indeed you do. I can pay $0.10

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

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. Ryan will discuss our NAV per share increase in more detail.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2023

Its debt load will continue to come down A big reason investors aren't overly thrilled with Viatris is that the business has a lot of debt on its books; that's not a good look as interest rates are rising. As of June 30, the company's long-term debt was over $17.2 The company is targeting a gross leverage ratio of 3.0.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2024

AGNC's portfolio has a weighted average yield of 4.52%, so the company uses leverage -- meaning debt -- to boost returns for investors. The company expects leverage to be around 6 to 12 times its tangible stockholders' equity. It gains leverage by borrowing against its assets, which helps boost returns during good times.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

Additionally, American Airlines has worked diligently to reduce its substantial debt load, successfully cutting $15 billion at a faster pace than the anticipated timeline. Highlights from the Quarter The fourth quarter saw American Airlines leveraging strong passenger demand and efficient route management to deliver record revenue.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In its earnings release, Chevron said that asset sales in Canada, Congo, and Alaska are part of its plan to divest $10 billion to $15 billion by 2026, with further structural changes expected to reduce costs by $2 billion to $3 billion from 2024 to the end of 2026. Still, the leverage ratio remains at a very healthy level.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Between now and then, it'll need to repay more than $6 billion in debt. Even if it devoted 100% of its CFO toward paying down its debt -- which would mean cutting its dividend to zero -- it would still take more than 11 years to fully repay its loans. With $19 billion in assets, it can generate quite a bit of money that way.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It repaid debt, which steadily drove down its leverage ratio. Today, Energy Transfer has a strong investment-grade balance sheet with a leverage ratio in the lower half of its 4.0-to-4.5x That improving leverage ratio has provided Energy Transfer with increased financial flexibility. times target range.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Leverage ratios like debt-to-capital and financial-debt-to-equity are also lower now than before the pandemic, as Chevron has used outsize profits to pay down debt. billion in total debt, which is low for a company of Chevron's size. billion in total debt, which is low for a company of Chevron's size.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

It has jettisoned high-cost operations and recycled that capital to grow its higher-returning assets. billion, putting its net leverage ratio at around 0.6 billion of debt. billion of debt over the next two years. Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) has transformed into a low-cost oil producer over the years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

That is, they acquire all sorts of additional assets that may not have the same return profile as the original well -- potentially squandering the original golden goose. Or was it a wise strategic decision, alongside the rest of Occidental's capital allocation plan, that incorporates dividends, share buybacks, and debt repayments?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 11, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, released a report that compared the returns of publicly traded companies initiating a dividend and growing their payout over a period of 40 years (1972 to 2012) to publicly traded companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same time line. This leverage also supports the company's juicy payout. All but $0.1

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 17, 2023

This excess cash allowed the midstream company to pay down more debt, pushing its leverage ratio toward the lower end of its target range of 4.0 The leverage-neutral transaction will boost its distributable and free cash flow. Meanwhile, leverage is around 4.0 times after recently selling its natural gas storage assets.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 11, 2023

per share, partly due to asset sales used to repay debt following a significant surge in interest rates. While adjusted FFO should improve in the next year, an analyst asked whether the company had thought more about reducing its dividend and reallocating that cash toward debt reduction. That gives it some breathing room.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Mubadala Investment Company , Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investment arm, has formed a strategic partnership with New York-based alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital as it seeks to co-invest in private credit opportunities amid a tightening monetary environment around the world.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

Its "21/21 Plan" calls for the company to raise $42 billion via a mix of debt sales and equity offerings, and use all of it to buy more Bitcoin. At the same time, he is now suggesting that other companies, both big and small, commit to making the token a balance sheet asset. So the strategy of Strategy is simple.

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