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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Gates has donated much of his wealth to the foundation over the past 25 years, and he plans to contribute almost the entirety of his assets to charitable causes over the course of his life. Much of Berkshire Hathaway's value is tied up in its massive investment portfolio. Gates isn't alone in his pledge to give away his wealth.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Management plans to divest non-core assets to accelerate the paydown of that debt. Shares currently trade for an enterprise value/earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EV/ EBITDA ) multiple of just 5x. The company now holds a significant amount of debt.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 2, 2024

times their enterprise value -to-rate base and 16.5 times price-to-earnings. It further diversifies our business and enhances the stable cash flow profile of our assets," stated Michele Harradence, the president of gas distribution and storage at Enbridge. It's paying a very reasonable price for the utilities at about 1.3

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The Motley Fool

MAY 26, 2024

With plans to expand its assets in Guyana, Brazil, and the Permian Basin, ExxonMobil projects that it will grow earnings at a compound annual growth rate of more than 10% from $8.89 Still, interest rates are unlikely to remain elevated forever, and the company is doing what you might expect it to do in a down market.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 20, 2024

First, prior to this decline, the company's ratio of enterprise value (EV) to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was at an all-time high of 24. So, does this drop show that Hershey is damaged goods since the broader market is still up? Not so much.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

To that end, management plans to sell off non-core assets to pay down debt, a playbook it's run throughout its recent history. and an enterprise value -to- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) ratio of 6, the shares are trading at a fair value.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Management expects to generate about $80 billion in additional capacity for investments and shareholder returns through 2027 by maintaining its current leverage ratio and growing its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). The shares trade for an enterprise value- to- EBITDA ratio of 11.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 4, 2024

Approximately 90% of Energy Transfer's 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) is projected to come from fee-based activities. Its assets also allow it to find the best times and places to sell the hydrocarbons it transports. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The company typically looks for at least a 12% return on its spending, which would help boost earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) by more than $370 million per year once all the projects are fully ramped up. It plans to spend around $3.1 billion on growth projects this year.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

If the company spends $3 billion to build a new project, it would earn $360 million a year in gross operating profit on that spending, which should also be similar to the cash flow the asset generates. Given its current backlog of projects and solid ROIC track record, Enterprise has a nice runway to grow over the next couple of years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

With over 7,100 locations, MTY Food Group operates the vast majority of its shops through a franchise model , giving the company an asset-light, high-margin profile. Right now, the company's enterprise-value-to-EBITDA and enterprise-value-to-FCF ratios are very close to 10-year lows -- outside of the drop during March 2020.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It recently announced it was buying PFSweb for $181 million, or an enterprise value of $142 million, which includes the company's cash balance of $39 million. However, its PFS Operations' adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) were $23.2 A robot in a GXO warehouse.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Buy or hold Kinder Morgan Kinder Morgan is a midstream company, which means it owns energy infrastructure like pipelines and storage and transportation assets. Most of its revenue comes from fees that customers pay for the use of those vital assets. for Enterprise. in the third quarter of 2024. which is notably higher than 12.8

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 5, 2024

Cellular stores, four-and-a-half million wireless customers, 30% of its spectrum assets. Cellular gets the remaining 70% of those spectrum assets and gets to keep ownership of its towers. Jason, first off, what are spectrum assets, that feels like an important piece of this equation here, and why is it being chopped up?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

The remaining 35% came from smaller altcoins and other crypto assets. Second, the market stopped bracing for higher interest rates. The Federal Reserve doesn't plan to cut interest rates until inflation cools off, but it also recently said it was unlikely to raise those rates again for the foreseeable future.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In its third quarter, Enterprise's total gross operating profit increased 5% to $2.45 Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) also rose 5% to nearly $2.44 This is because building long-life pipelines and other midstream assets is a capital intensive business.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2023

Meanwhile, rising interest rates popped Unity's bubbly valuations. 18, 2021, its enterprise value hit $56 billion -- or 40 times the revenue it would generate in 2022. Today Unity's stock trades at about $41, with an enterprise value of $18.5 When it closed at its all-time high of $201.12

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

Serial underperformance compared to peers At this point, the appeal of Advance Auto Parts as a value play is easy to spot; after all, its valuation stands at a significant discount to its peers, O'Reilly Automotive and AutoZone. As such, Advance does a poor job of generating free cash flow from its assets.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) increased 20% in the second quarter to almost $3.8 It also formed an accretive joint venture with affiliated MLP Sunoco LP to combine their crude oil and produced water assets in the Permian Basin. What fueled Energy Transfer's surge?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

Its adjusted net income attributable to the company rose 1% to $548 million, while its adjusted earnings per share (EPS) rose $0.01 Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and distributable cash flow (DCF), two common metrics used to evaluate midstream companies, also both rose modestly.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Emerson also has exposure to the adjacent asset optimization software company market through its 55% stake in Aspen Technology. Moreover, it trades on a historically favorable enterprise value (market cap plus net debt), or EV-to-EBITDA multiple. billion in 2022 and the $8.2

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

million, and its assets under custody (AUC) climbed 56% to $98 billion. But based on its enterprise value of $34 billion, Robinhood still looks reasonably valued at 13 times this year's sales. By the end of 2021, its number of funded customers surged 81% to 22.7 million, its monthly active users (MAUs) grew 48% to 17.3

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 7, 2024

Robinhood's growth is stabilizing Robinhood's growth can mainly be gauged by its number of funded customers, its monthly active users (MAUs), and its assets under custody (AUC). With an enterprise value of $23.4 At the end of 2021, its number of funded customers had surged 81% to 22.7 million, its MAUs had jumped 48% to 17.3

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 3, 2024

In 2023, it generated 34% of its trading volume from Bitcoin, 20% from Ethereum, 11% from the Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) stablecoin, and the rest from other types of crypto assets. Coinbase suffered a major slowdown during the past two years as rising interest rates drove investors away from cryptocurrencies and other speculative investments.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

These growth opportunities should lead to continued earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and cash flow growth, which should also help lead to increased distributions in the coming years. billion and $3.5 billion, given the opportunities it is seeing. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

However, the company's recent acquisition of CrownRock will add high-margin assets to its production business. On an enterprise value -to-EBITDA basis, the stock trades at a multiple of 5.8. times trailing EBITDA (earnings before interest taxes, depreciation, and amortization).

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2024

Going beyond stocks, you should also consider assets such as real estate, bonds, and maybe some cryptocurrencies. With earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) soaring to a record high of $98.7 You should also diversify your portfolio. That's well below the five-year average of 25.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It wrapped up the $500 million deal for the assets of the online luxury apparel retailer by the end of January. The interest income it's collecting is more than triple what it's shelling out in interest payments. The South Korean e-commerce leader will report its fourth-quarter results after Tuesday's market close.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

billion acquisition, at a 38% premium to the share price before the announcement, with Owens Corning taking on $3 billion in debt financing. The deal values Masonite at an enterprise value (market cap plus net debt) of 8.6 The details of the deal: A $3.9 times adjusted EBITDA, or around 6.8

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

This is related to the non-cash valuation allowance on some of Airbnb's deferred tax assets , which can be used to offset liability to Uncle Sam and other governments. This tax benefit line item won't be recurring in 2024, so don't put too much emphasis on Airbnb's current price-to-earnings ratio of just 15 based on GAAP net income.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They are prioritizing a full divestment, although some potential bidders could be interested in only some of the assets, the people said, asking not to be identified as the plan isn’t public. Cubico operates clean-energy assets in Spain, Italy, Greece, the UK, the US, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia and Australia. gigawatts (GW).

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Don't forget about those assets, GLP/GLP-1 drugs. But price to sales, enterprise value to earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization, aka EBITDA, or your good old price to earnings metric. It is a supplier of human organ assets. What's the biggest story for Hershey here?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Operating profit, so the margin percentage, how much money you make off of each sales dollar drives value. Incremental investment; the rate of investment, how much do you need to invest in fixed assets and working capital to drive that next dollar of sales or next dollar of profits?

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Pension Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

FDJ acquires the entire capital of this company for an enterprise value of 350 million euros. Last year, the Irish lottery generated gross gaming revenues of €400mn and earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation of between €40mn-€45mn.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2025

While it holds around $44 billion worth of assets, about two-thirds of that is held in just three stocks. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway have performed extraordinarily well over the last couple of years, and it now stands at a record market value of $1.15 Here's a closer look at Gates' top public investments for his foundation.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Berkshire CEO stipulates the Gates foundation must disseminate the entirety of his donation each year, plus an additional 5% of its net assets. Nonetheless, the trustees have worked to maintain a substantial stake in the conglomerate by selling off other assets. Much of Berkshire's value is tied to its massive investment portfolio.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Buffett stipulates that the foundation must disseminate the entirety of his donation each year plus an additional 5% of its net assets. 2025 looks bright for the business with management calling for a "step change in the company's revenue and earnings." Waste Management stock currently trades for an enterprise value 14.3

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