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Bill Ackman's Critics Had "Extreme Skepticism" About These 3 Investments, but He Still Made Billions on Them

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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. He said the company's liabilities-to-equity ratio was 139 to 1. But Ackman believed the company still had valuable assets.

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Is Rivian Automotive Stock a Buy Now?

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Rivian gained a lot of attention when it went public in November 2021 because it was already ramping up its production, it was backed by Amazon and Ford Motor Company , and the bulls were aggressively bidding growth and meme stocks to astronomical valuations. Therefore, Rivian's leverage will probably rise significantly throughout 2024.

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UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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.

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Centene (CNC) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Continued pricing discipline in Marketplace and the deliberate actions we took to align our 2024 Medicare bids with our strategic focus on lower-income and complex members yielded the intended results on both fronts. And at the time of our first quarter call, we will have a better directional sense for bid strategy related to next year.

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AppLovin (APP) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Our focus on leveraging these technologies for [Inaudible] in the CTV space and array in the carrier OEM market is just the beginning. So from a real-time bidding perspective, it looks like I might have frozen. From a real-time bidding perspective, how much of the market has shifted toward real-time bidding at this point?

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AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Leverage as of the end of the first quarter increased modestly to 7.1 times tangible equity compared to seven times as of Q4, while average leverage for the quarter decreased to seven from 7.4 So you'd have to think about leverage on common if you want to think about it that way. times in Q4. Doug Harter -- UBS -- Analyst Yes.

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loanDepot (LDI) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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A major component of Vision 2025 is to align our expense base with the smaller mortgage market and create efficiencies to improve operating leverage and financial performance over time. Or just any color on bids there, too. Our total expenses for the first quarter of 2024 decreased by $7 million or 2% from the prior-year quarter.