The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Chevron is built to weather the cycle Reuben Gregg Brewer (Chevron): Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, Occidental got into a bidding war with Chevron over Anadarko Petroleum. Then the pandemic hit, and low oil prices coupled with a heavily leveraged balance sheet forced Occidental to make a dividend cut.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Bidding Amortization Depreciation 130

The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2023

Our continued focus on managing what is in our control drove another quarter of sequential improvement in year-over-year performance across key financial metrics, including unit sales, SG&A leverage, gross profit, and EPS. Excluding the benefit from the settlement, our SG&A leverage was 76%, roughly flat to last year's first quarter.

Financing 130

Financing Finance Leveraging Bidding 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

On marketing, excluding our investments in Vrbo and international markets, our consumer business showed some year-on-year marketing leverage in the second quarter. Excluding these investments, we saw some marketing leverage in our B2C business in the second quarter. Our gross leverage ratio had further reduced 2.3 billion or 9.2

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Bidding Depreciation Returns 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We drove strong wholesale GPU despite experiencing steep depreciation, and we stabilized CAF's net interest margins while we maintained penetration. We achieved this despite experiencing steep depreciation that was concentrated primarily in June and July. SG&A as a percent of gross profit was 84%, a leverage of 6.3

Depreciation 130

Depreciation Financing Finance Banks 130

The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

First-quarter 2024 results include higher pension, depreciation, and interest expense compared to the same period in 2023. It's a starting point for our climate strategy as we leverage our system already be in place in new, innovative ways to continue driving down emissions even further. Voters in our service territory agree with us.

Depreciation 130

Depreciation Amortization Debt Asset Management 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As an example, Petco used demand gen campaigns across targeting, creative generation, and bidding to find new pet parent audiences across YouTube. Sephora used demand gen Shorts-only channel to boost traffic and brand searches for the holiday gift guide campaign and leverage greater collaborations to find the best gift.

Depreciation 182

Depreciation Financial Services Capital Assets 182

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of July 29, 2024 Please note that when we discuss all of our expense figures, they will exclude stock-based compensation and related payroll taxes, as well as depreciation and amortization, and certain other items. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Evan.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Bidding Legal Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

We continue to see a good pipeline of future construction projects coming to the market, as measured by bidding activity within our downstream operations. Additionally, there continues to be a solid pipeline of work entering the market for bidding. For the third quarter, CMC incurred mill operational commissioning costs of $17.2

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Bidding Capital Banks 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

Additionally, we have been leveraging generative AI to enhance our auction system so that it can better match app to search queries and search intent. Meanwhile, we will continue to leverage ERNIE and ERNIE Bot to help advertisers create sophisticated end campaigns and improve ROI on Baidu. Baidu Core's cost of revenue was RMB 10.6

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Taxes Education Bidding 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In terms of ecosystem, we empower enterprises to leverage learning through API to create their own AI-native applications and solutions that will drive the development of generative AI and LLM. We are basically restructuring the overall ad platform, including creative construction, ad targeting, and the bidding mechanism.

Leveraging 100

Leveraging Education Depreciation Bidding 100

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I'm pleased to report that we delivered a strong quarter with robust top line growth despite tougher year-over-year comparisons, showing our ability to achieve operating leverage as we grow. Costco has recently deepened its partnership with us, enabling Criteo to leverage its data to reach existing potential consumers across the open web.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Shareholders Capital Investors 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

The focus is to leverage FDJ's full suite of eInstant games in Italy and IGT's full suite of eInstants in France. Our actions, coupled with the strong cash flow generation of the business, enabled us to reduce our debt and leverage, greatly improving our credit profile. Net debt leverage of 3.1

Taxes 130

Taxes Leveraging Bidding Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In both DRAM and NAND, there is intense focus on lowering bid cost through efficient reuse of the installed base. Our noncash expenses for the September quarter included approximately $80 million for equity compensation, $80 million in depreciation, and $14 million in amortization. We continue to execute well in 2024.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Bidding Education Capital 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Please note that when we discuss all of our expense figures, they will exclude stock-based compensation and related payroll taxes, as well as depreciation and amortization and certain other items. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of April 22, 2024 Reconciliations between the two can be found in today's press release.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Banks Bidding Investors 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

What I see now with the opportunities in mRNA is a convergence of technologies and experience that also leverages the many recent learnings from the pandemic and is driving the rapid growth of the mRNA therapeutics field. When revenues meet certain levels, we see good leverage in our cost structure. Let's turn to Slide 9.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Banks Capital Amortization 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We signed a DCX contract leveraging the capabilities of our heloo team to support a European based financial services client. We also won a competitive bid process to provide support from our U.S. However, clients continue to look for ways to reduce costs by leveraging automation technologies and global delivery models.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Financial Services Capital Banks 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

With this momentum, we expect this segment to be the first to bend the revenue curve back to growth, and we think bid market segment will follow suit. Since establishing the dedicated go-to-market team for bid markets last June, tenured direct sales productivity increased 26% while we simultaneously grew the sales force by 15%.

Taxes 130

Taxes Debt Leveraging Banks 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Consistent with what we previewed on the Q2 call, we used 2025 bids as an opportunity to further focus our franchise on lower-income seniors and tighten the alignment between our Medicare Advantage business and our Medicaid footprint. billion, excluding gains and losses on divestitures, and depreciation expense in the zone of $550 million.

Bidding 130

Bidding Taxes Banks Liabilities 130

The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Adjusted SG&A increased primarily from the general liability adjustment, higher depreciation, temporary labor for Dollar Tree's multi-price rollout, higher utility costs, and sales deleverage, partially offset by lower incentive comp cost. Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.5 million last year.

Liabilities 130

Liabilities Depreciation Shareholders Portfolios 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Fourth, we continue to sell noncore assets and use the proceeds to recycle into higher quality buildings and reduce leverage. We have long believed it would take time for the bid-ask spread between buyers and sellers to narrow. We closed on one small noncore land sale this quarter and are marketing additional properties.

Assets 130

Assets Prospects Capital Financing 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Finally, we're bidding for a license in New York. Our bid is compelling, that we award the license who will be in the ground as quickly as possible. The strong flow-through of revenue to EBITDA reflects the operating leverage of our business, once the fixed costs have been covered. There is no denies future. How far can MBS go?

Assets 130

Assets Banks Capital Leveraging 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Looking ahead, we have developed an ambitious plan that seeks to enhance our growth trajectory and drive permanent improvement in CMC's margin profile by leveraging both accretive organic projects and inorganic growth in attractive adjacent markets. million, excluding depreciation. Including depreciation, costs amounted to $25.3

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Capital Shareholders Banks 130

The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Our focus in the security business is to continue to leverage our expertise to enhance our GBS and GIS offerings while also focusing on accelerating growth of our stand-alone services. Depreciation and amortization was flat year to year as a percent of revenue, down $17 million, reflecting continued capital discipline.

Resale 130

Resale Consultants Consulting Debt 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We continue to use ERNIE to enhance our monetization system, including targeting capability and bidding systems in the quarter. So, we also offer smaller language model and help our customers leverage MoE, that's a mixture of experts, for our best performance. Operating expenses were RMB 12.1 Operating expenses were RMB 47.7

Education 130

Education Depreciation Banks Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Our [Inaudible] of this business has always been about providing incremental safety features to meet the constantly expanding regulatory and rating requirements while leveraging scale and purpose-built hardware to maintain a consistent overall cost to the automaker. We continue to make steady progress with more mature prospects.

Capital 130

Capital Bidding Taxes Accounting 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Exactly three months ago, we launched Activate, our end-to-end SPO solution that enables buyers to execute non-bidded direct deals on PubMatic's platform while accessing CTV and premium video inventory at scale. It's still very early in the application of generative AI and we continue to experiment with many different opportunities.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 100

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Debt Bidding Leveraging 100

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

By leveraging our technology and increasing automation, we processed and delivered the same amount of volume in the fourth quarter as last year, but we did it with three million fewer hours, while delivering excellent service. In the fourth quarter of this year, union wage rates increased by only 3%. domestic segment delivered $1.8

Taxes 130

Taxes Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Capital Leveraging 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We leverage hash identifiers, which are universal privacy safe tool to bridge data sets from marketers and media owners across demand and supply, facilitating successful personalization of measurement. Now several ad tech players have focused their efforts solely on using a durable ID to replace third-party cookies.

Depreciation 100

Depreciation Capital Shareholders Leveraging 100

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So the outlook, any volume will bring that leverage right back, but also part of the reason why we're taking these self-help actions. We literally had over 100 interested parties to begin with, got 30 initial bids. And does it have any change to your amortization or depreciation or anything like that? That was all index pricing.

Shareholders 130

Shareholders Liabilities Portfolios Taxes 130

Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

84% of our portfolio is in US dollars and over that period the CAD depreciated 8.4%. leveraged loans and emerging market bonds. They are really leveraging their comparative advantages in that franchise in the mid market LBO, that's for sure. With that context, the 7.3% For a major single asset holding, we refer to a U.S.

Investing 52

Investing Leveraging Banks Debt 52

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. We continue to drive SG&A leverage, and we're also gaining momentum on operating cost optimization and efficiency gains. SG&A leverage provided the remaining expansion.

Leveraging 100

Leveraging Capital Debt Accounting 100

The Motley Fool

MARCH 1, 2024

As we continue to open more studios, our model continues to scale, enabling us to leverage our centralized back office and improve margin. Depreciation and amortization expense was 4.2 We had three people that were bidding on STRIDE. Adjusted EBITDA totaled 105.3 million, or 33% of revenue, up 42% from 74.3

Liabilities 130

Liabilities Leveraging Capital Portfolios 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We are leveraging automation and executing thorough reviews of our usage to improve efficiency while simultaneously improving our uptime, security, and performance. So, that's really the lens with which we evaluate the business and existing customers as well as new customers when we're bidding on business. Please go ahead.

Banks 130

Banks Financing Finance Accounting 130

The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

We anticipate that memory customers looking to scale capacity and lower bid cost will bias WFE spending toward technology upgrades of the installed base. Our noncash expenses for the June quarter included approximately $79 million for equity compensation, $74 million in depreciation, and $14 million in amortization.

Banks 130

Banks Portfolios Capital Returns 130

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. But I, I think this extreme leverage is not as prevalent as it once was.

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Banks Financing Finance 59

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And that should tell you whether or not an asset’s probably going to be appreciating or depreciating. Now what we did trade well was our defensiveness and our quality bid, staying away from small caps. There is still excess leverage in the system that I’m not sure how that’s gonna be resolved necessarily.

Companies 64

Companies Pension Funds Hedge Funds Assets 64

Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

The Canadian dollar depreciated against the U.S. Other categories affecting our total cost profile include taxes and expenses associated with various forms of leverage. dollar and other major currencies during the year, influenced by the impact of evolving monetary and fiscal policies across global economies.

Investing 52

Investing Stakes Pension Funds Assets 52