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2 AI Stocks to Buy Right Now

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The company also leverages AI algorithms to optimize ad placements in real-time bidding, thereby ensuring a high return on investment for its clients. The company's Koa system analyzes large datasets with machine learning algorithms to help clients design effective and targeted advertising strategies.

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Alphabet (GOOGL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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. billion, up 11%.

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Want to Retire a Millionaire? Consider This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock

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Investors have bid up nearly every stock associated with AI, making it harder to find AI stocks worth buying. The company is best known for its intelligent hub, which facilitates both ends of the ad transaction, helping to optimize ad buys and seller inventory, and increase advertisers' return on investment.

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Warren Buffett Owns Occidental, but You Should Consider These 3 Energy Stocks Instead

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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. Here's why they like them better than Occidental. With the help of Warren Buffett , Oxy won the deal. That's a 25% increase from last year's level.

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Commercial Metals (CMC) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Returning to our third quarter results, CMC's reported net earnings of 119.4 and a trailing EBITDA return on invested capital of 11.3%. We continue to see a good pipeline of future construction projects coming to the market, as measured by bidding activity within our downstream operations. million, or $1.02

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Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Depreciation of the quarter was $104.8 million year-over-year improvement, driven by lower depreciation of $7.8 million increase in depreciation for the regulated business. But assuming we get bids at valuation that is attractive to us, it'll be at some point next year is when we would go to discontinued ops.

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Simon Property Group (SPG) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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It's a very good question, and I think, honestly, we really focus on -- to the extent we do put in fresh capital, in addition to understanding what it means for our overall business and the totality of our company, it's also absolutely driven by return on investment, just like building a new shopping center. We hit the bid.

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