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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Barrick's holistic approach to our business encompasses managing the many mine closure liabilities we have accumulated along the way. We are methodically moving to nonoperating tailings storage facilities, with the largest liabilities to safe closure. And that's also key to reducing our liabilities while we mine.

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APRIL 16, 2024

billion to shareholders this quarter and share repurchases and dividends. This is a great example of best practices being shared across the scale of our company. Shareholders' equity increased $1.9 billion from the fourth quarter earnings, as they were only partially offset by capital distributed to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per-share basis. Our DNII in the third quarter exceeded the monthly dividends paid to our shareholders by 51% and the total dividends paid to our shareholders by 8%, allowing us to continue to deliver the benefits of our strong results to our shareholders.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

So that just accrues the benefit to our shareholders and, and really supercharges the delivery of the synergies that we were talking about. Then I want to ask just quickly, on shareholder return plans, maybe just on sort of broad strokes, specifically, how would your plan vary? Neal Dingmann -- Analyst Great to hear.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reminder, our strategy is to enable growth while maximizing shareholder value. We continue to evaluate the best use of our excess capital. And at current interest rates, we believe funding our upcoming debt maturity before share repurchases best optimizes shareholder value. You've got supply chain challenges.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Our strategic initiatives are expected to broaden our investor base and to lower our cost of capital, benefiting both our shareholders and optimizing our ability to bring valuable medicines to patients. Thank you very much once again to our shareholders for your continued support and trust in Agenus.

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Zajac Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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

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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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

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. And how can you resolve the regulatory concerns while continuing or serving shareholders better?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

These last 12 months have been a challenging environment for utility investors generally and even more so for Dominion Energy shareholders. All of which led to inquiries around whether a new approach was needed to deliver results that were consistent with shareholder expectations.

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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 4, 2023

After the video presentation, Michael and Stasy will give their prepared remarks followed by analyst Q&A, then we will conclude with questions from our shareholders. I will now hand the call back over to Dhillon for shareholder questions. And how will you create value for shareholders? Please begin the video presentation.

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MAY 1, 2024

And as you know, our long-term goal, assuming our debt-to-EBITDA ratio is below 3 times, remains to return approximately 50% of our free cash flow to shareholders via share repurchases while also taking into consideration the interest rate environment and strategic opportunities. Ken Wong -- Oppenheimer and Company -- Analyst All right.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Strata Copilot trained on nearly 50,000 vetted sources, leverages best practices to help guide customers to faster decisions and help accelerate remediation. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

We are focused on becoming more consumer-led using data and optimization to a higher degree and implementing best practices in our execution. The progress we've continued to make on our four strategic priorities is driving consistency in our results and sets a strong foundation to deliver long-term shareholder value.

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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 8, 2024

We are confident that as we integrate our Midland Basin assets, we'll unlock meaningful efficiencies through infrastructure sharing, resource utilization, and by bringing together best practices from each of our organizations. A sustainable and growing dividend is the foundation of our shareholder return priorities.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

Executing on our commitment to return excess capital to shareholders, we stepped up our buyback plan and are on track to repurchase over 100 billion Hong Kong dollars of our shares in 2024, as well as paying an increased dividend, while investing in AI technology, platform enhancements, and high production value content.

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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. And many of the requirements are in line with best practices of how our customers were already using Klaviyo. We care deeply about our efforts to ensure excellent deliverability for our customers.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And diluted net earnings per ADS attributable to ordinary shareholders was RMB 5.32, or $0.75 And we have collected all these best practices and lessons learned and put them into our system. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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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. Linda Weiser -- D.A.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

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. Our strong balance sheet and profitability gives us the financial flexibility to continue returning cash to our shareholders. Turning to the balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Before I close, I would like to confirm that Elliott Management is a shareholder in our company, and our conversations to date have been constructive. We believe this is a great investment and accretive to shareholder value, building out the long-term opportunity. The long-term opportunity for us is significant. Operator Thank you.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2023

So, as a team, we're really excited that where we are in our sort of juncture today allows us to go forward and build an even better, larger, and a more compelling business for our shareholders. How is that going to translate into numbers that are loved by our shareholders? So, with that in mind, how are we going to do this?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We're very pleased to report another solid quarter in fiscal 2024 with adjusted results above expectations, demonstrating our ability to consistently execute against company priorities and create sustained value for our shareholders. billion of cash to shareholders, which included $1.5 Adjusted earnings per diluted share was $6.23.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Christa for her thoughts on our financial results and long-term outlook for continued shareholder value creation. Bringing people and process together drives further efficiency and enables us to scale best practices. Third, new products at scale. Questions & Answers: Operator Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This robust growth has allowed us to return significant capital to our shareholders. Since our listing in May of 2021, total return for our shareholders has been over 60%. And Lunate is a very big investor and intends to continue to be a big investor to the best of our understanding in private equity. per quarter.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

The goal of Agent IQ is to make our people extremely productive by helping them learn from best practices across our call center. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Giuliano Bologna -- Analyst That's very helpful.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

In June, our board of directors increased the dividend by 12%, marking the 15th consecutive year of double-digit dividend increases to shareholders. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Cash flows from operations in the quarter were at $6.7

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

The merger between these two companies presented a unique opportunity to offer legacy Cedar Fair unitholders and legacy Six Flags shareholders with a tax-efficient means to each participate in the significant value-creation available as a combined company with even more growth opportunities. First off, the deal's equity structure.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

The merger between these two companies presented a unique opportunity to offer legacy Cedar Fair unitholders and legacy Six Flags shareholders with a tax-efficient means to each participate in the significant value-creation available as a combined company with even more growth opportunities. First off, the deal's equity structure.

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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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