The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And finally, ensuring that we are disciplined stewards of capital as we continue to strengthen our balance sheet, manage our portfolio of businesses and deploy capital to create value for our shareholders. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

Leveraging 214

Leveraging Bidding Assets Shareholders 214

The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

We finished the quarter with record liquidity and a very strong capital ratio, as Kurt will take you through, while also continuing our share repurchases, albeit at a slightly lower level, given the strong returns we saw in the bulk MSR market. For example, think of the complexity that goes into modeling advances for a pool of MSRs.

Leveraging 246

Leveraging Amortization Bidding Collateral 246

Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The tender bid’s document shows showed a vehicle owned by Cinven offered 350 euros to repurchase 1,000 euros worth of bonds, with a 65% discount to the nominal value. The offer aims to “to offer liquidity to holders and to assist in ensuring an orderly resolution of the issuer’s liabilities,” the document said.

Debt 147

Debt Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financial Institutions 147

The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

So it wasn't all that surprising when Chevron made a bid to buy Permian exploration and production (E&P) company Anadarko Petroleum for $65 per share later that year. However, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) , another E&P, outbid Chevron, offering $76 per share, or 17% more than Chevron's bid.

Bidding 130

Bidding Debt Enterprise Values Shareholders 130

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Marc Rowan, CEO at Apollo Global Management, one of the world’s largest private capital providers, foresees a growing convergence between public and private markets, with private capital increasingly attracting competition from Wall Street, according to a report by Bloomberg. We will attract lots of competition,” Rowan said.

Exchange-Traded Funds 97

Exchange-Traded Funds Bidding Liabilities Debt 97

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Oct 24, 2024 , 9:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning, and welcome to the third quarter 2024 earnings call for Annaly Capital Management. Image source: The Motley Fool. Please go ahead.

Capital 130

Capital Leveraging Collateral Assets 130

Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The tender bid’s document shows showed a vehicle owned by Cinven offered 350 euros to repurchase 1,000 euros worth of bonds, with a 65% discount to the nominal value. The offer aims to “to offer liquidity to holders and to assist in ensuring an orderly resolution of the issuer’s liabilities,” the document said.

Debt 130

Debt Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financial Institutions 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Capital expenditures, including both purchases of property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software development costs, were $10 million for the quarter, bringing the total to $40 million year to date. We're very focused on managing shareholder dilution after having successfully solidified our capital structure.

Bidding 245

Bidding Leveraging Capital Debt 245

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Feb 08, 2024 , 9:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good day, and welcome to the fourth-quarter 2023 Annaly Capital Management earnings conference. Image source: The Motley Fool. Please go ahead, sir.

Capital 130

Capital Leveraging Banks Assets 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Our initiatives to manage our working capital levels also over-delivered our initial expectations. For the year, we reduced our working capital levels by $40 million, which is on top of the $108 million of working capital reductions in 2023. To summarize, we laid out a plan and we executed. To be clear, we are not.

Banks 130

Banks Capital Debt Assets 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

You can see that from the increases in our capital expenditures. First, it bears repeating that AI innovation across our Ads ecosystem is core to every aspect of our product portfolio from targeting, bidding, creative, measurement, and across campaign types. Gemini was trained on and is served using TPUs. By measuring 2.3

Bidding 240

Bidding Depreciation Assets Capital 240

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In keeping with that, such an investor would probably also believe that regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will not be convinced by whatever data Summit presents to them if it makes a bid for the approval of its candidate after the clinical trials conclude. Its current debt liability is $100 million.

Due Diligence 130

Due Diligence Bidding Liabilities Debt 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

Please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements relating to the company's future performance, which are intended to qualify for the Safe Harbor from liability, as established by the U.S. Capitalizing on our revenue optimization and operating leverage, we also steadily improved our profit. year over year.

Bidding 130

Bidding Leveraging Liabilities Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

Advertisers who use profit optimization and Smart Bidding see a 15% uplift in profit on average compared to revenue-only bidding. In just six months, AI-driven improvements to quality, relevance and language understanding have improved broad match performance by 10% for advertisers using Smart Bidding.

Depreciation 246

Depreciation Bidding Leveraging Liabilities 246

The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of April 30, 2024 As a quick review of the bidding, at the Markel Group, we are working to build one of the world's great companies. We want our shareholders to win as we earn profitable on the capital we use to do this work. Professional Liability and General Liability portfolios.

Liabilities 130

Liabilities Shareholders Asset Management Portfolios 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements relating to the company's future performance, which are intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability as established by the U.S. For product features, optimizing premium cargo bidding remained a priority in the third quarter. year over year.

Bidding 130

Bidding Leveraging Liabilities Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

Our strong first quarter results demonstrate the power of our diversified earnings drivers as we deliver on our financial commitments, maintain our posture of disciplined capital deployment, and continue to invest to support long-term growth. Our debt to adjusted EBITDA was 2.9 times at quarter end, consistent with year end.

Bidding 130

Bidding Banks Debt Liabilities 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

In June, we submitted our bid for the 2025 Medicare Advantage plan. Our bids went through a rigorous internal review, and we are confident in our pricing for 2025, which reflects prudent assumptions for utilization trends. Shifting now to liquidity and our capital position. I'll start with the 2025 bids.

Bidding 130

Bidding Education Assets Investors 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

Moving to growth capital. Adjusted cash flow from operations, or we call it adjusted CFFO, which is cash flow from operating activities before changes in working capital, was 1.9 We continue to expect our growth capital expenditures for 2023 will be in the range of $2.4 Turning to capitalization. This compares to $1.4

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 246

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Capital Leveraging Debt 246

The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

Our recently filed Medicare Advantage bid for '25 again took a balanced approach to provide as much stability for seniors as possible, while factoring in the realities of the funding cuts and current care patterns. So -- but that was an element we also incorporated into our view for 2025 as we approached our bid for '25.

Bidding 130

Bidding Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Funds Leveraging 130

The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

Our business was reinforced by strong market conditions, including expansion in the mobile advertising market and continued adoption of real-time bidding. Turning to our capital structure. I had a couple of questions about header bidding, aka real-time bidding, I guess, those are the same term.

Bidding 130

Bidding Banks Prospects Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

steel import levels; construction activity; demand for finished steel products; the expected capabilities, benefits, and timeline for construction of new facilities; the company's operations; the company's strategic growth plan; the company's future results of operations, financial measures, and capital spending. million, or $1.02

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Bidding Capital Banks 130

The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

AI-based keyword prioritization ensures the right keyword, bid, budget, creative, and landing page is chosen when there are multiple overlapping keywords eligible. Take Ace Hardware, who tapped into AI-powered search and omni bidding to capture increased seasonal demand leading up to Memorial Day. Broad match also got updates.

Assets 246

Assets Bidding Banks Depreciation 246

The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

Finally, expanding margins coupled with disciplined capital spending has allowed us to generate meaningful levels of free cash flow. million of net cash provided by operating activities and 143 million of capital expenditures. We continue to expect capital expenditures in the range of 1.5% to 2% of net sales. to 2% of net sales.

Leveraging 246

Leveraging Capital Shareholders Bidding 246

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Our ability to generate significant product volume allows us to leverage the full benefits of the configure-to-order model, creating incremental manufacturing capacity without the need for additional capital expenditures. Cash flow from operating activities was $579 million, and capital expenditures were $126 million. of revenue.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Shareholders Capital Debt 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Performance Plus brings together AI-driven budgeting, bidding, and targeting functionalities or reducing the effort required from advertisers. Beyond its initial suite of automation tools, Performance Plus is expanding to include new creative and bidding features. Diving deeper into automation.

Bidding 130

Bidding Leveraging Investors Accounting 130

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2024

From a capital standpoint, we've executed our plans exactly how we described them coming into the year and with good results. Most notably, we described a desire to fully fund the premium deserved -- premium deficiency reserve and contribute to capital needed to support our long-term care block. billion and RBC of 415%.

Liabilities 130

Liabilities Capital Shareholders Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These changes position us to execute at a higher level and capitalize on the expanding market opportunities ahead. Our capital intensity remains low, and we expect capex to be approximately 5% of our total revenue. As we look ahead, we remain confident in our ability to sustain this growth and capitalize on the opportunities before us.

Companies 147

Companies Leveraging Public Companies Capital 147

The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

We have all seen the excitement around the latest BHP bid for Anglo American, and it's clear that the driver of this bid is Anglo's significant copper portfolio. Jackie Przybylowski -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst Hey, Mark. Ralph Profiti -- Eight Capital -- Analyst Mark, this is Ralph Profiti from Eight Capital.

Assets 246

Assets Shareholders Capital Banks 246

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Recycling capital in this way keeps our portfolio competitive, lower its capital expenses, and accelerates our return on invested capital, driving long-term core FFO growth. Additionally, we will dispose of older, more capital-intensive assets and redeploy the proceeds into newer, faster-growing communities.

Debt 189

Debt Leveraging Assets Bidding 189

The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

The capital outlay needed, global scale requirements, and ongoing pace of innovation make it challenging for other platforms to compete and even harder for new entrants to emerge. We have a strong balance sheet that supports our long-term capital allocation strategy. Matt Swanson -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst That's really helpful.

Bidding 130

Bidding Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Capital Leveraging 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Our growth stemmed from a combination of market factors and our execution, including a strong holiday season, growth in the mobile advertising market, a market shift to real-time bidding, early contributions from our array business, enhancement of our technologies like AXON, expansion of our advertiser base and growth in advertiser budgets.

Bidding 130

Bidding Shareholders Banks Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Looking beyond these rapid growth areas, our revenue in the quarter was impacted by some macro softness and a large DSP buyer on our platform that changed their bidding approach as mentioned on our call in May. Nearly all impressions on our platform are now transacted via this bidding approach. Now turning to our outlook.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Bidding Leveraging Capital 130

The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Our focus has been on enabling greater automation of workloads and bidding strategies through AI. I also sit at the core of our prediction engine and corresponding automated bidding technology. This impact was primarily a result of this partners transitioning from their legacy bidding platform. Moving to liquidity.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Leveraging Bidding Capital 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We believe the unique foundational assets we own give us a strong opportunity to capitalize on these changes. Outbrain is well-positioned to capitalize on this opportunity, providing a single access point for advertisers. We've seen great success with adoption of our key automated bidding product, Conversion Bid Strategy.

Bidding 130

Bidding Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Leveraging Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These savings were primarily driven by lower third-party transportation rates as a result of a newly implemented purchase bid system, as well as optimized rail usage, the continued benefit from reduced Sunday coverage, and the consolidation of source. We remain steadfast in our commitment to prudent capital allocation and shareholder returns.

Leveraging 246

Leveraging Bidding Banks Accounting 246

The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Regarding capital allocation during the third quarter, we repurchased approximately 1.5 On the comps, I mean, just to tap in a bid on some of the comments that you made the industry acceleration that you've seen in November, it looks like it's continuing into December. Or is there something else going on there working capital-wise?

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Depreciation Taxes Finance 130