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!

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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.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

and AREX Capital Management, LP and its affiliated investors, who together own or control approximately 30% of the Company’s outstanding shares, have each entered into a voting agreement pursuant to which they have agreed, among other things, to vote their respective shares of common stock of Fiesta in favor of the transaction.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2024

CDPQ is one of the only investors in the world to have made a commitment to encourage tax best practices at its portfolio companies, including compliance with a minimum tax rate of at least 15%, as recommended by the OECD and supported by the G20. Governance CDPQ employs solid governance practices. Further evolve our approach.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

According to Bain & Company, global funds raised across the full private capital spectrum hit $1.2 Private equity valuation best practices provide guidance and critical insights on how firms weigh various factors to value a company and assess its potential growth. trillion in 2021 – a 14% increase from the prior year.

Due Diligence 40

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Let the junior person work with them to set their priorities for the week, come back to them to check their work, be available for advice--and the net result will be that you'll get a lot of hustle, cheaply, but in the right direction and using the best practices of a career of experience.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We remain committed to operating excellence and will continue to look for innovative ways to improve our capital efficiency. We will remain disciplined in our approach to maximize free cash flow and are committed to having low leverage. I'm excited to see the results from teams sharing best practices. Turning to Slide 4.

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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.

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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

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I would now like to hand the conference over to Rebecca Yoshiyama, vice president of investor relations, capital markets, and securities. In our letter, I gave examples from several partners that leverage our technologies across our marketplace, their e-commerce websites, and in their stores. Please go ahead.

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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

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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

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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

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.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Our net leverage ratio continues to be healthy and was 0.4 The decrease was primarily driven by changes to working capital associated with the growth in the business, as well as an increase in tax payments. Our capital expenditures decreased on a year-to-date basis to $18.8 Now moving on to the balance sheet. million or 52.7%

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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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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Indigo Marketing Agency

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Leverage Video Content Not only is video the best-performing content marketing format , it’s also one of the most effective tools for explaining complex financial topics in a simple, engaging way. Learn 5 essential steps for creating a powerful lead magnet plus best practices to keep in mind in this quick 5-minute video.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

In Q2, the combination of topline progress and expense discipline translated to $55 million of Adjusted EBITDA and sets us up well for continued improvement in operating leverage as the year progresses. For example, Ridge, an everyday essentials e-commerce company, continued to lean into Snap's DR best practices to drive success.

Leveraging 130

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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

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Our strong performance in the quarter continues to support our capital allocation priorities, including the distribution of $9.5 As we've demonstrated, our capital allocation decisions have generated robust earnings, cash flow and shareholder returns. Including Pioneer, our Permian production surged to 1.2 million barrels per day.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2024

And let me be very clear, even with the investments needed for our transformation, Citigroup has more than sufficient resources to also invest in our businesses and make the planned return of capital to our shareholders. We introduced new tools to better manage human capital needs. We will increase our dividend from $0.53

Banks 130

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Axial

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The 12 lessons outlined below provide tips and best practices for constructing an effective buyer list. What is their leverage capacity? Funds want to allocate their human capital as efficiently as possible. Building a top-notch buyer list can single-handedly help one investment bank win a deal over another.

Leveraging 52

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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.

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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

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Clearlake Capital Group

APRIL 13, 2023

CLEARLAKE AND STG TO SELL ARCHER TO CINVEN Under Clearlake’s and STG’s ownership, Archer has transformed into a leading end-to-end integrated risk management software-as-a-service platform serving customers around the world Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, London, UK, and Overland Park, KS – April 13, 2023 – Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Furthermore, it provides attractive diversification across 42 states and 14 countries, beneficial best practice sharing, and access to varied pockets of growth in under penetrated markets. Despite the pressure on operating leverage given the attendance decline due to the impact of the Hollywood strikes. We delivered $70.7

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