The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

The cloud business is also beginning to show some solid operating leverage as it scales up, leading to the segment's operating income increasing by 3.7x Alphabet is using it across its ad ecosystem to help with everything from targeting, bidding, creative, and measurement. to $900 million.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

The refinancing effort includes a bid to raise an additional 40m ($51.93m) in borrowing capacity, which will help fund the companys business plan, alongside discussions to refinance 110m in existing debt. Prospective lenders are expected to engage in talks in the coming days.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2019, the company bought Anadarko Petroleum, winning a bidding war with Chevron. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway even got involved, helping to finance Oxy's bid. However, the deal was very large, requiring the company to take on material leverage. That's where the story gets complicated.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Acquiring CrownRock would enable Occidental to further increase its scale in the region and leverage its existing position to reduce costs. An acquisition of CrownRock could enable its acquirer to achieve meaningful cost savings by streamlining development plans, leveraging existing infrastructure, and spreading costs over a larger position.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

Finally, do your best to convince everyone else to buy as much Bitcoin as they can in a bid to increase demand and keep its price moving up. It's using significant debt to get as much leverage as possible. Transform itself into a company that does nothing but buy Bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

In 2021, it was a popular tactic to target companies with high short interest and bid the stock higher, forcing short-sellers to buy back shares, pushing shares higher still. If that's the case, any improvement would provide operating leverage if demand does return. Sometimes short squeezes stick, and sometimes they're short-lived.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We're also leveraging AI to create a more intuitive workflow and faster turnaround times to reduce frustrations for our members and provider partners. Our leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was approximately 4.7 The net result of these transactions modestly reduced our leverage ratio. billion of outstanding debt principal.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

We have also notably improved the truckers' ecosystem and matching efficiency by implementing trucker credit ratings, priority access, and our premium cargo bidding mechanism enhancements that drove our fourth-quarter fulfillment rate to 37.5%, up 5.4 percentage points year over year. year over year to RMB 1.16 billion in the fourth quarter.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

The technology giant and owner of Google, YouTube, Android, and many other consumer internet services posted strong second-quarter earnings, which had investors bidding up shares of the stock. What happened Shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) have rallied as much as 11.4% this week, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

Let's discuss what the next 10 years could have in store for the big-data specialist as it seeks to leverage its position in the defense and law enforcement sectors to help introduce this transformational technology. Investors often bid up the price of stocks with great long-term potential, leaving little room for new money to get involved.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We expect continued year-over-year improvement in the fourth quarter as governed by sales performance given the leverage deleverage nature of service. SG&A leveraged by 640 basis points driven by the growth and gross profit and our continued expense efficiency actions. Brian Nagel -- Analyst It's on SG&A and the leverage.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

It also seems to be soliciting bids for ABC and other "noncore" media assets and said it would consider a partner for ESPN. But that deal gives Disney a bevy of assets to leverage in its theme parks too. As a result, Disney stock is now trading at nine-year lows. When he returned as CEO in Nov.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) has been at the forefront in leveraging this opportunity by programmatically matching buyers and sellers of advertisements on the CTV (connected television, a device or software used to support video content streaming) platform.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

AppLovin's MAX marketplace is a bidding platform where advertisers compete in real-time auctions to place ads in apps. Remarkably, even with this top-line surge, total expenses rose just 8%, as Applovin scaled up effectively with a lean operational structure by leveraging AI and automation in its internal workflows.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Blue Origin is currently bidding on acquiring a second space company, United Launch Alliance. While he could use debt or raise equity funding from investors, selling shares to fund the company allows Bezos to maintain full control over Blue Origin. And the stock still has room to move higher.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The companies buy mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by government agencies using a lot of leverage. As such, they'll likely start bidding up other yield-focused assets, like Annaly and AGNC, causing their stock prices to rise and dividend yields to fall. That happens as the market value of treasury notes rises.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

By advocating for the value of the assets, Ackman was able to contribute to a bidding war for General Growth Properties. Among the problems that Ackman saw was an enormous amount of leverage. Just a simple credit downgrade would be catastrophic with that much leverage. But Ackman believed the company still had valuable assets.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. A great customer experience leads to strong retention, which maximizes returns and makes us the best bid for acquiring MSRs. This leverage is the payoff from the intense focus on technology and operations that Jay discussed.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

Issuers can leverage certain operational expenses for an ETF, such as marketing spend. That provides investors with tighter bid-ask spreads and helps the ETF price track the net asset value of the fund's holdings. But Blackrock and Fidelity are not too far behind, with expense ratios of 0.25% each.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

And the recent advances are really allowing us to drive more value for advertisers across a large range of different areas: bidding, targeting, creative, as well as our core advertiser and publisher experiences." "AI has been at the core of our advertising products for a very, very long time," Schindler said.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We're in the bid process on it right now. It could tighten up a bit as we continue to navigate the bid process. We're in the market every day bidding on our type property. Property in Columbus, we're bidding right now on a building across the street from our property. I've never been a negative leverage person.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Simply put, the more devices there are on the market, the greater the leverage of the related products and services. In other words, for all the positives that make Intuitive Surgical a great company, those factors are hardly a secret, with the market bidding up shares. Q1 revenue reached $1.9

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Right now, oil is on the rise, leading investors to bid up the stock prices of companies like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM). At which point, it reduces leverage. Energy prices are volatile, swinging from highs to lows, often in swift and dramatic fashion. Have you missed out? Here's what you need to know.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2024

Their ability to tap into the current AI zeitgeist has pushed investors to bid these stocks massively higher. Its software leverages this technology to automate processes, perform manual tasks faster, and free workers to spend more time on creative and analytical work. Nvidia and Super Micro Computer are two prime examples.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2024

An eclectic bunch Nano-X Imaging developed a more cost-effective X-ray machine that leverages AI to help provide more accurate diagnoses. Investors will recall that in late 2020, Nvidia made a very public bid to acquire Arm Holdings for $40 billion, though the deal was ultimately quashed by regulators in early 2022.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Still, that temporary setback has not deterred investors, who have bid the share price more than 200% higher over the last year. Upstart Upstart Holdings (NASDAQ: UPST) has leveraged AI to develop a loan evaluation tool. Supply constraints and capital expenditures weighed on the company in fiscal Q1.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As of its most recent look, market research outfit PYMNTS reports eight out of every 10 small or medium-sized business in the United States leverage at least one online channel for promotional purposes, with about as many using purpose-built e-commerce tech. On the surface, this seems like a potential problem for Shopify's continued growth.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

He wrote, "[We] believe [The Trade Desk] could rapidly scale its [operating system] ambitions via Roku's 85 million+ global streaming household footprint, while Roku could quickly leverage its first-party viewer data and expanding CTV inventory to match with growing advertiser demand." This would seem to rule out any takeover bid.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

And, as many investors appreciate, when a pharma company mints a winning product, it's only logical for it to leverage the expertise required to develop the product into making new medicines that are even better. In sum, if Novo's bids in genetic medicine succeed here, it should pave the way for many more years of moderate growth.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

Still, that beat was apparently not good enough for investors, who had bid the stock up over 30% this year, even after today's decline. Meanwhile, Alphabet actually beat both revenue and earnings expectations. Strength in Search and Cloud was offset by a slight miss on YouTube growth.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

CMC's downstream bidding activity has remained resilient, which points to a solid pipeline of potential future projects. CMC's leverage metrics remain attractive and have improved significantly over the last several fiscal years. And then, in our order books, we are seeing a high level of bidding activity. compares to 13.5%

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

The investment is expected to leverage strong regulatory tailwinds and rising demand for secure and compliant digital transactions in an increasingly digital-first environment. The transaction is anticipated to close in Q2 2025, subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions. Bain Capital is being advised by J.P.

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Private Equity Professional

DECEMBER 20, 2024

After a high-water mark in 2021, a year when buyers often needed to find ways to sweeten their bids in a very competitive M&A landscape, RWI has been purchased on fewer deals each year. He leverages his extensive expertise and SRSAcquiom proprietary data to produce resourceful content regularly utilized by market practitioners.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2023

However, as competition intensified, the company opted to slash car prices in a bid to boost demand. Lemonade also plans to leverage generative AI to improve over 100 business processes and create cost savings over the next 18 months.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Investors have bid up computer chip stocks such as TSMC this year on the back of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, which requires an immense amount of computing power to train and run. Since TSMC is a manufacturing business, it has a lot of operating leverage. The iShares Semiconductor ETF is up 47.5%

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Investors have reacted as you might expect, bidding up the prices of uranium-related companies like Uranium Energy. That leverages it to uranium prices. Here are some things to consider. Buy Uranium Energy Corp. Uranium is on the rise. Higher commodity prices will lead to higher revenue from selling uranium.

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