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

APRIL 16, 2024

billion to shareholders this quarter and share repurchases and dividends. By leveraging our technology and continuous investment in that technology and putting customers at the center of everything we do, we have successfully deepened our relationships and expanded our customer base across all our businesses. is up 9% year over year.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

We also continue to leverage data to create a more flexible, efficient, and intelligent network. These results reinforce that our transformation efforts are taking hold and demonstrate our commitment to creating value for our shareholders. There's also opportunity now that we're in Network 2.0,

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It's important to note that the hydro business represents an annual EBITDA run rate of approximately $25 million, and we intend to only enter into a transaction if it creates value for our shareholders. Our opportunity is to more effectively standardize and apply best practices to create additional value for our customers and shareholders.

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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.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This overall sales performance drove adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow growth, and we returned over $280 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. These two areas of focus will drive long-term value for the company, franchisees and our shareholders. which equated to a leverage ratio of 4.3 million to $34.2

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the fourth quarter, after which, we'll be happy to take your questions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

billion to shareholders, of which $4.3 With the close of the Pioneer transaction, our shareholders now include the former owners of Pioneer stock, who've begun to benefit from the strength of our combined companies. billion was in dividends. I look forward to sharing more about our growth opportunities in December.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

Our press release and the shareholder letter were issued earlier today and are posted on the Investor Relations section of our website. A reconciliation of GAAP non-GAAP results other than with respect to our non-GAAP financial outlook is provided in today's press release and in our shareholder letter. These are our guiding principles.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

As a result, we've been able to achieve outstanding growth and create significant shareholder value under traditional MLA agreements, while also developing innovative structures such as the comprehensive MLA. We will continue to keep our shareholders informed as incremental progress is made toward the closing of our transaction.

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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. It's worth remembering the ubiquity of the Starbucks brand and our ability to intercept customers.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

We've had continued success with a multichannel focus, leveraging strong land-based franchises in the digital arena. We are in a solid financial position with net debt leverage of 2.9 There are tax consequences to shareholders, and we have provided some insight on implications for U.S. online games. billion in liquidity.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

EOG is off to a great start in 2024, both delivering value directly to our shareholders and investing in future value creation. Our robust cash return to shareholders continues to demonstrate our confidence in the outlook and value of our business. Ezra Yacob -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thanks, Pearce.

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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. The result of all of this is that we continue to see strong non-GAAP EPS growth due to substantial operating leverage, which also translated to strength in GAAP EPS, which more than doubled quarter to quarter.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Since July 2022, we've returned over $11 billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. We are committed to returning over 50% of our operating cash flows to shareholders. I want to recognize our employees for their hard work and dedication to driving value creation for shareholders. billion to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This phenomenal performance enabled us to generate $786 million of free cash flow in the third quarter and return $431 million of it back to shareholders. We leaned in heavier on our share repurchase program, and we continue to think reinvesting in our company at today's prices is the right thing to do for shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2024

They should not be confused with the common dividends Citigroup pays to its shareholders. Indeed, there is no restriction on Citigroup's ability to pay common dividends to shareholders, nor is there a restriction to buying back shares. Markets generated positive operating leverage, and delivered net income of approximately $1.4

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As we think about our broader known customer base, we are fortunate to have a tremendous amount of first-party customer data for our advanced analytics capabilities to leverage. During fiscal '25, we will continue to leverage our multiskilled store associates. This includes leveraging AI safely and effectively.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This quarter, Chevron delivered strong financial and operational results, returned record cash to shareholders, and achieved project milestones that are expected to deliver production and cash flow growth over the coming years. Wirth -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer All right. Thanks, Jake. Share repurchases were a record $4.7

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 24, 2024

"This integration stems from a vision of an integrated CDPQ that maximizes its impact and performance to offer our depositors the best service for the most efficient cost” Charles Emond, president and chief executive officer of CDPQ, said in the announcement. “It

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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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. This platform is one example of how we leverage those 16 petabytes of data. We grew the servicing portfolio to $1.2

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Over the last several years, we've been implementing improved systems for managing both personnel and process safety, leveraging best practices from across our company and industry, our own and others. The synergies will create significant shareholder value and accelerate Pioneer's net-zero ambitions by 15 years to 2035.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

We expect the progress to remain gradual as most enterprise customers are still developing in-house skills to leverage AI effectively. We are focused on helping customers move from AI experimentation to production faster with best practices that reduce risk and maximize impact.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Ever since, we have been relentlessly pursuing this mission, leveraging the power of the immune system to develop groundbreaking therapies that could dramatically change the lives of those battling cancer. Thank you very much once again to our shareholders for your continued support and trust in Agenus.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

And it's been great to meet everyone and really experience the energy and the enthusiasm of Aon, and the commitment to deliver on our plans, which is most exciting for me is seeing firsthand the investment in the corresponding growth opportunity for our clients, colleagues and shareholders as we deliver on a 3x3 plan over 2024, '25, and '26.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

We have an enterprise license with OpenAI that we're leveraging with ChatGPT to increase our staff productivity. Our staffs had more than 1 million messages in Q2, up 108% from Q1 of this year by leveraging AI to become more productive internally. million of share during the quarter, demonstrating our commitment to shareholder return.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This allows us to reinvest in our business, meaningfully improve our cash flows, and return cash to our shareholders, which we are committed to continuing through our category-leading dividend. Since I became CEO in 2022, Hasbro's returned almost $1 billion to shareholders and paid down over $0.5 billion in debt. Twister Air was a No.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jones Road used many of the best practices we see working more broadly across the industry. Our 350-plus native integrations and APIs are allowing Fresh Clean Threads to better leverage all of their first-party data for a complete view of their customers and drive more revenue. Finally, G&A expense was $28.5

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Our global regional scale and long operating track record present an opportunity to further improve on the operating leverage inherent in the neutral host infrastructure model. In turn, we'll prioritize a reduction to our gross debt balance and accelerate the pathway to achieving our net leverage target and enhance financial flexibility.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Leveraging our new in-house development team, we are well-positioned to take on increasingly complex projects and deliver bespoke products that align with the needs of our occupiers.” With leverage, the value-add and develop-to-hold investment platform was expected to have more than €1bn of investable capital.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

I want to thank our clients, employees, carriers, sales partners, and shareholders for their tremendous support on our continued journey. Because we have managed our company conservatively, our strong balance sheet gives us multiple options to enhance shareholder value. With that, let me turn the call over to Mark Jones, Jr.,

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

I'm excited about all of the long-term growth opportunities we have in front of us as we work together to deliver more for our guests, for our team and for our shareholders. Regarding the second priority, we returned $509 million to shareholders in the form of dividends in Q2, representing growth of about $10 million over last year.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

As a reminder, we will be discussing non-GAAP metrics, specifically, adjusted net income attributable to shareholders, which we refer to as adjusted net income, or ANI; and adjusted operating income and related margin; and adjusted free cash flow during our call. The leverage ratio, as defined in the credit agreement, stands at 2.8

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million in EBITDA seeking a growth-oriented partner and distressed businesses that are over leveraged and/or operate in out-of-favor sectors. Argonaut looks to partner with management teams to improve operations, implement best practices and generate shareholder value. billion in committed capital.

Private Equity Firms 59

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. We remain committed to operating excellence and continue to focus on our strategic priorities to create value and return cash to shareholders. billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. billion to shareholders through $1.3

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

We continue to operate with financial discipline and our second quarter operating expense leverage reflects the cost structure improvements we implemented earlier this year. Since the inception of our repurchase program, we have returned $241 million to shareholders representing more than 125% of our free cash flow over that time.

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