Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2023

New Product Development and Investment Collaboration : Ares and Vinci will explore launching co-branded products and investment strategies that leverage each platform’s unique capabilities. Consummation of the Investment and the formation of the Strategic Partnership is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the evolving venture capital (VC) landscape, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations have become integral to Antler’s global ethos, positioning the firm as a sustainability leader. PEW: What challenges and opportunities exist for firms in light of the current ESG regulatory frameworks for venture capital?

Venture Capital 98

Venture Capital Due Diligence Capital Startups 98

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 18, 2014

The number of tools available to sales groups has skyrocketed--so keeping up with best practices seems more of a challenge than over. If anyone knows about how to leverage knowledge and tactics into better output, they do--so I''d assume they''d understand something learned is something gained later on. Hope to see you there.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With over 8,000 employees nationwide, Apex focuses on empowering its people to build a strong network of industry leaders who can share resources, best practices and expertise in order to deliver unparalleled service to customers. has reached a deal with a group of private credit lenders led by Blue Owl Capital.

Private Equity Firms 130

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ahead of the Private Equity Wire European ESG Summit, Marta Jankovic, Head of Sustainability at Stafford Capital Partners, talks to us about her vision of sustainability within the firm and the broader industry, trends to look out for this year and why GP outreach is key to net zero alignment.

Capital 98

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Leveraging Thoma Bravo’s deep sector expertise and strategic and operational capabilities, the firm collaborates with its portfolio companies to implement operating best practices and drive growth initiatives.

Initial Public Offering 147

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

This includes robust increases in digital sales, progress leveraging our scale, continued deployment of our proprietary technology ecosystem, and efficiency improvements in our cost structure from efforts underway in the next phase of our journey to be a leading global digital restaurant company. Beginning with our second quarter results.

Leveraging 230

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Nov 03, 2023 , 10:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Greetings, and welcome to the Main Street Capital Corporation's third quarter earnings conference call. and Main Street Capital wasn't one of them!

Capital 100

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

I would highlight our continued capital strength with common equity Tier 1 capital of $197 billion. That amount of capital is $31 billion over the current regulatory minimums for our company. That capital has allowed us to both support our clients and returned $4.4 We continue to invest and enhance our digital platforms.

Banks 246

Banks Taxes Investment Banks Investment Banking 246

Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

The 2024 report, which examines the latest trends in fund finance, M&A and leveraged finance as well as progress on ESG and DEI, reveals that the industry is bracing itself for a challenging year as the impact of higher interest rates, tighter liquidity and slower deal markets continues to be felt.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

On a capital structure, we improved Delek Logistics' financial strength and flexibility. The combination of the primary equity issuance and extending our debt to 2029 improved Delek Logistics' ability to pursue its growth plans through improved leverage and financial liquidity. In addition, we reduced the leverage ratio to 4.01

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Assets Debt Best Practices 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The customer was facing rising costs in their SOC with little automation and adequate visibility into the rising number of tailored attacks that leveraged AI. We have hundreds of customers leveraging AI access. This deal was headlined by a SOC transformation where we both replaced multiple SIEMs with XSIAM and XDR.

Leveraging 246

Leveraging Debt Investors Portfolios 246

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

First, the Credit Karma platform is leveraging data and AI to deliver personalized experiences and compelling tax offers. Our fourth Big Bet is to become the center of small business growth by helping our customers get new customers, get paid fast, manage capital, and pay employees with confidence in an omnichannel world.

Taxes 246

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

launched hand-breaded Original Recipe chicken nuggets to expand its off-the-bone chicken offerings, leveraging the learnings from our significant off-the-bone business at KFC international. The global Taco Tuesday campaign, which launched in June and will continue through the third quarter, leverages Taco Bell's U.S.

Leveraging 188

Leveraging Capital Shareholders Debt 188

The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

First, we are strengthening our foundation and embedding retail best practices throughout the organization. We have begun to embed retail best practices that are already changing the way certain choices and decisions are being made. We will make operational excellence the standard for everything we do.

Best Practices 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

Organizations are now reaching out to Okta to better understand the enhancements we've made to our own security posture so that they can take these best practices and implement them in their own environments. These best practices, combined with Okta's products, are helping our customers be more secure and do it faster.

Leveraging 244

Leveraging Best Practices Investors Companies 244

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Now anyone could leverage the work of others, see how the code worked, and use what they needed freely. They suggest changes and discuss best practices. To successfully build an open source project--or any project for that matter--you need the best tools.

Companies 133

Companies Legal Best Practices Startups 133

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2011

He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. If you want to be in venture capital, ask a bunch of junior VC types what they actually do all day, and ask a bunch of partners what they expect the junior VC types to do all day (I wonder if this would come anywhere close to matching up.)

Startups 135

Startups Venture Capital Best Practices Consulting 135

The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

On the commercial side of the business, investments we've made to capitalize on a multibillion-dollar growth opportunity in the B2B space continue to pay dividends. Our new commercial division continues to strategically add feet on the street to our sales force, and we are leveraging data analytics and training to better enable their success.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Taxes Capital Best Practices 130

The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

We lowered our capital intensity, reaching our FY '25 target of less than 6.5% And we meaningfully improved our return on invested capital. We also continue to leverage data to create a more flexible, efficient, and intelligent network. We also reduced our capital intensity and achieved our capex-to-revenue target of 6.5%

Capital 246

Capital Leveraging Portfolios Assets 246

The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2024

This includes embedding retail best practices across the enterprise and ensuring we have the right organizational structure in place to enable our future success. In Q2, we continued to focus on driving leverage in our P&L while also funding initiatives that position us for long-term growth. And our work here is not done.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Best Practices Capital Returns 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

One quarter ago, we laid out a scorecard with our capital allocation priorities for 2024. Our net leverage ratio improved with record adjusted EBITDA, which increased 25% over the first quarter with expected production and current prices, along with the remaining $14.8 Our net leverage ratio improved to 2.3 Moving to Slide 6.

Capital 130

Capital Leveraging Assets Banks 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

They are led and inspired by an unrivaled leadership team, each bringing decades of experience and knowledge, ranging from fintech and mortgage capital markets and AI, the marketing, product, operations, sales, and so much more. million clients and leveraging rich data profiles to continuously understand their needs for life.

Companies 130

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It was and continues to be our belief that separating the regulated and renewables platform would after a transition period, allow both businesses to be more ideally capitalized and ultimately lead to longer-term growth and value. We began to streamline our capital structure early for this year.

Debt 130

Debt Taxes Best Practices Depreciation 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

per share, and our balance sheet remains in strong shape with a capital ratio of 27.9% million customers and generated $305 million in pre-tax servicing income, thanks to continued strong operating leverage. And meanwhile, we continue to deliver very strong operating leverage. and liquidity at a record high of $4.1

Taxes 130

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We generated strong cash flows in the quarter, allowing us to return more capital to shareholders and to make strategic investments to support the future growth of the business. Let me turn to cash and capital deployment, which can be found on Slide 13. Adjusted operating profit increased 7% to $1.3 We ended the quarter with $2.5

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Taxes Capital Assets 130

The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

This includes embedding retail best practices across the enterprise, identifying operational efficiencies, and ensuring we have the right organizational structure in place to enable our future success. At Stitch Fix, we are on a journey to transform our business and our efforts remain focused on two areas.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Debt Best Practices 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Therefore, our fiscal '25 priorities are as follows: one, invigorate and progress targeted customer experiences; two, drive operational effectiveness and efficiency; three, continue our disciplined approach to capital allocation; and four, explore, pilot, and drive incremental revenue streams. There's a lot to unpack.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Returns Companies 130

The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

We are successfully strengthening the foundation of our business by embedding retail best practices, increasing the efficiency of our operations, and optimizing our organizational structure. Despite the revenue decline, we continue to drive leverage in our business in FY '24. We continue to execute our transformation strategy.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Returns Debt Portfolios 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2023

It is this next-gen portfolio driving that is our growth transformation and enabling our leverage. We continue to drive platformization and capitalize on the opportunity the changing landscape presents through products like XSIAM. And we expect fiscal year 2024 capital expenditures of $160 million to $170 million.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Banks Taxes Capital 130

The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Leveraging our Deep Brew analytics platform, we have identified customer experience outlier stores, approximately 10% of our network, and have developed targeted plans to address and improve them, including accelerated Siren System deployment. We are ahead of plan on productivity. Additionally, our higher effective tax rate had a $0.03

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Returns Capital Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

And over the last decade, we've deployed significant capital at attractive rates of return, and emitted thousands of contracts to protect our assets and mitigate growth in land rent, supporting margin performance. Finally, we successfully accessed the debt capital markets last month, issuing $1.3

Assets 130

Assets Leveraging Capital Debt 130

The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are seeing great early feedback from our partnership with AWS Code Whisperer, the AI-powered coding companion that is now trained on MongoDB data to generate code suggestions based on MongoDB's best practices from over 15 years of history. In terms of our direct sales net additions, new sales activity remains healthy.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Banks Accounting Best Practices 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

After this brief introduction, Kirk Tanner, president and chief executive officer, will provide a business update, and then Ken Cook, chief financial officer, will review our fourth-quarter results and share our 2025 financial outlook and capital allocation priorities. From there, we will open up the line for questions.

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

We begin by thanking our colleagues around the world, including the 7,700 colleagues who welcome from NFP for the great work they do to deliver for clients, on each of the three pillars of our 3x3 plan, delivering risk capital and human capital solutions through our Aon client leadership model, scale by the Aon business services platform.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

We are able to do this effectively by leveraging the skill sets of our global R&D teams, where we could shift the focus of these resources toward the product areas that create the greatest customer value. In addition, we have confidence in generating increasing operating leverage from our go-to-market and G&A teams.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Debt Leveraging Banks 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

Our focus going forward is on repeating these types of creative expressions that leverage our heritage rooted in music and dance and declare a trend statement. In addition to gaining leverage from this new partnership, we are excited about the opportunity for our media mix to become a growth engine for our brands over time.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Leveraging Shareholders Returns 130