The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

In closing, our agreement with Marriott, ongoing investments into our operations and a fantastic sports entertainment backdrop in Las Vegas position us well to create operating leverage by growing our EBITDAR against our fixed rent escalators. Operator And our next question will come from Shaun Kelley with Bank of America.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In particular, we are very excited to announce signing our first consumer lending deal with an enterprise bank in the United States, an over $200 billion institution. mortgage business in the quarter came with our first cross-sell to a regional bank in the U.S. A pivotal win for our U.S. Turning to our international business.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Olsavsky said that Amazon's "teams worked hard to increase the relevancy of the ads we show customers by leveraging machine learning." He added that the company continues to improve the tools that enable advertisers to measure the return on investment for their advertising spending. That's a big deal for Amazon.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

And the company also expects adjusted return on invested capital of 10.5%, a half-point better than earlier guidance. The initial move represents the central bank's first such move in four years, and marks a path to lower costs for companies with high debt -- such as Carnival. billion in debt since the beginning of 2023.)

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We'll also provide an update on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. Net asset value, or NAV -- or NAV, increased by $0.77 per share or 2.6% times and 2.1

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Our linear channels are deeply embedded in our direct-to-consumer strategy, as they continue to deliver high-quality content that reaches demographics not captured on streaming alone, allowing us to broaden our audiences and leverage our unmatched content engine across an expansive base. With a business with that profile, you invest in it.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As of the of the end the third quarter, our unsecured leverage stands at 2.50 And today, we're announcing an update to our long-term leverage target of 2.0 Given our cash flows and overall financial strength, this is the appropriate range for our business to provide flexibility to invest for growth and return capital to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

But in terms of the after-sales services and the touch points, we do can leverage the existing service resources of the NIO brand. Your next question comes from Ben Wang from Deutsche Bank. Ben Wang -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Thank you. Ben Wang -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Thank you very much. Thank you, Tim.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And lastly, in the fourth quarter alone, we announced nearly $8 billion of new development joint ventures and completed over $1 billion of equity issuance under our ATM bringing total capital sources raised during the year to more than $12 billion and reducing pro forma leverage below our year-end 2023 target.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Wins this quarter included supporting a consumer healthcare company's business unit spin-off with Dell, setting up a hybrid IT environment by leveraging colocation and cloud for their SAP environment in London and Singapore. Our net leverage remains low relative to our peers at 3.7 Keith Taylor -- Chief Financial Officer Great.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.66, down from 1.76 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years. We will remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet and advancing to our stated goal of achieving a leverage ratio of 1.5 million or 10%. last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

I'm very, very proud of our progress to date, and I'm confident that we're going to continue to leverage our core strengths to achieve our potential. We are on an exciting path and are well-positioned to deliver durable growth and sustainable shareholder returns. Your next question is coming from Anna Lizzul from Bank of America.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

We generated free cash flow of $2 billion while investing 5.3 billion back into the business, and we improved our leverage by two full turns and reinstated our quarterly dividend. Return on invested capital was 13.4%, a 5-point improvement from 2022. Our leverage ratio improved two terms to finish the year at three times.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

Our enterprise AI platform, Vertex, helps customers such as Deutsche Bank, Kingfisher, and the U.S. This quarter, we announced over 30 new ads features and products to help advertisers leverage AI and keep pace with the evolving expectations of customers and users. Air Force build powerful AI agents. and Gemini Flash 1.5

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And we fundamentally shifted the business from transactional web arbitrage to app-first, focused on acquiring and retaining the customers with the highest LTV and return on investment. In addition, we will keep leveraging our technology leadership to find opportunities for decreasing costs while increasing customer experience.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.47, down from 1.66 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last six years. Our leverage ratio was reduced to 1.47 As mentioned by Larry, this quarter marks, the lowest leverage ratio that the company has achieved in over six years.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The show portrays ESG as a hedge bet, a prop play, and as it often is in the real world, a source of controversy as opponents often launch attacks to discredit its investing approach. Prioritizing this mindset can help shift the approach toward reporting and ensure teams are adequately leveraging the information they are collecting.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

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. billion in profit sharing to our employees and investing $1.1 Our leverage ratio improved to 2.9 Your next question is coming from Mike Linenberg from Deutsche Bank. per share.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Key wins in this area for Q3 included Core Wheat, a specialized GPU cloud provider, deploying networking nodes at Equinix leveraging our unique multi-cloud on-ramps and network connectivity across multiple metros. This drives improved bottom-line profitability and higher return on invested capital. Please refer to Slide 8.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a result of their efforts, ITW delivered record financial performance in 2023 with solid organic growth of 2% on top of 12% growth in both 2021 and 2022, best-in-class margins of more than 25%, and after-tax return on invested capital of more than 30%. So, we've got some volume leverage at that 2% to 4% revenue growth.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

You heard me say this before, but creating this market will take some time, but we're seeing good traction in building the ecosystem, which will ultimately be crucial to drive the next step of digitalization of enterprise and society, leveraging the capabilities of their mobile networks. Sami Sarkamies -- Danske Bank -- Analyst Hi.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Looking by region, it is evident where we have strength to leverage and where we need to improve. We strengthened our balance sheet, reduced our leverage, and returned cash to our shareholders. We have executed on our capital allocation priorities, including a 64% dividend payout ratio and reducing our gross leverage from 2.5

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

We're on track to fully deliver in line with guidance on all aspects of the combination through efficiencies, cost synergies, and free cash flow impact leveraging operational best practices from Aon business services. Our next question comes from the line of Grace Carter with Bank of America. And fourth, bottom line growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The strong flow-through of revenue to EBITDA reflects the operating leverage of our business, once the fixed costs have been covered. And the first question today is coming from Carlo Santarelli from Deutsche Bank. Carlo Santarelli -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Hey, guys. Carlo Santarelli -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Great.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

Systems built 20 years ago to power digital advertising, including third-party cookies are losing effectiveness and ineffective ad spending is creating more opportunities for those who use first-party data to connect the right content to the right customers while clearly measuring return on investment. And then I had a follow-up.

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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. Strong cash generation will enable us to return our balance sheet to investment-grade metrics while consistently reinvesting in the business.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

Our capital investment programs ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. Our investments position us to grow faster than the market over the long term to grow our share of EBITDA in the market and to generate industry-leading returns on invested capital. Operator Thank you. It's accurate.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

During the quarter, we closed transactions with leading organizations of all sizes, such as Commerce Bank, Samsung, BambooHR, Sonesta Hotels, Bentley, Clari, and Premise Health. The driving force behind Copilot's adoption is the measurable return on investment it offers. Our net leverage ratio is 2.3 Thank you, guys.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

Companies for the first time can leverage the capabilities of an open-source frontier-level model to develop customized AI applications to encode their institutional knowledge into an AI flywheel to automate and accelerate their business. And your first question comes from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America Securities.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2023

million, an increase of 29% from the prior quarter, producing an annualized return on invested capital of 19.1%. We have a clear path toward executing on a broad commercial strategy, one that leverages a unique portfolio of reinforcement solutions to deliver more value to project owners, general contractors, and project engineers.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

That's a tremendous opportunity for us to leverage our extensive capabilities and consumer insights to develop innovative new products to better serve the needs of our consumers. Our first questions come from the line of Anna Lizzul with Bank of America. Anna Lizzul -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Hi.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

To date, they have achieved a return on investment of over $250 million. They also plan to leverage our AI capabilities like Document Understanding, Test Suite, and Task Mining to drive automation across their entire business.

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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. on strong regular price sales, leverage on higher sales, and slight improvements in shrink. We're planning to open 12 more new Rack stores this year ahead of the holiday season. versus a year ago.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

Should you invest $1,000 in Alibaba Group right now? Additionally, more and more small and medium enterprises are starting to leverage AI to enhance their operating efficiency. Your next question comes from Joyce Ju with Bank of America. Joyce Ju -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst [Foreign language] Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Looking forward, we expect to continue to actively repurchase our shares in the fourth quarter, further leveraging our remaining repurchase capacity, which stands at $5.6 We will leverage Dr. Carlton's study as we continue to engage in fact-based discussions about these critical issues. Operator Thank you. Your line is open.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Adjusted gross margin expanded 290 basis points in Q1, adding to our strong track record in this space and freeing up resources to invest in the brand activation plans I described earlier. In parallel, we are taking action to structurally change our cost base, leveraging the unique opportunity we have in front of us as we exit TSAs.

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