Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The firm has the unique position of leveraging its size and scale to benefit not only clients, but also to benefit the communities it serves. Fielding Miller will continue to lead the firm and remains the largest individual shareholder. CAPTRUST also has one of the broadest employee ownership programs in the industry.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

While the transaction will cause a slight rise in the company's leverage ratio (from 1x to 1.1x), it will maintain a strong investment-grade balance sheet following the deal. That will position them to return more money to shareholders through higher dividends and repurchase rates.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

There are very few businesses that have the buying power and negotiating leverage that Costco does. And as these customers continue shopping at Costco, generating higher revenue for the business, it provides even greater negotiating leverage in a positive feedback loop. In other words, its scale makes up its competitive advantage.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

The market continues to bid up the stock, even as the business's growth opportunities become limited over time. When expectations are this elevated, it leaves no margin of safety for prospective shareholders. As the world's third-largest retailer, it has unrivaled purchasing power and negotiating leverage with its suppliers.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Founders and key shareholders in Brazilian firms have committed to injecting as much as 19.3 Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up In the past few months, at least half a dozen key shareholders have stepped in. The transaction is pending approval from shareholders.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

GBTEC’s founder and CEO Gregor Greinke will remain the largest private shareholder and CEO of GBTEC. Carlyle will leverage its longstanding track record of internationalising European software companies, including current portfolio companies SER Group, Shopware, CSS, 1E, Phrase and Hack The Box.

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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.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 22, 2023

By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the company is attempting to disrupt the way lenders approve loans. This is probably what shareholders are most excited about. Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) is certainly an innovative business. Upstart's success since its founding is impressive.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

And it has undoubtedly been a big winner for shareholders. Costco's brand in the retail sector is a notable competitive advantage, but I think the company's massive scale is what gives it real leverage. Investors steadily bid up the stock because of the company's fantastic financial performance. 13) as the momentum continues.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, that stock has been bid to nosebleed valuations, dramatically increasing the risk. The company successfully leveraged this core competency and took a lead over Intel in data center CPU market share growth in 2023. It also means that investors may have a more lucrative opportunity in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest, a major Zoom shareholder, published an open-source report highlighting Ark's investment case, which forecasts a nearly 11-fold increase in the company's share price by 2026. is close to record lows, so Zoom could bolt higher as it leverages its name recognition and AI-related capabilities to attract more business.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

ARB is strongly committed to growing each of our brands by leveraging their respective foundations, while sharing best practices across our portfolio under our common ownership. Whelihan’s Pub & Restaurant based in the Greater Delaware Valley including Philadelphia and South Jersey and Mambo Seafood based in Houston, Texas.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 12, 2023

for many years in the hope of acquiring it one day, but the Audet family, which controls both entities, rebuffed its overtures — including a hostile bid in 2020. We’re tracking six months ahead on our deleveraging priorities and we’re committed to reducing our debt leverage ratio even further.” Rogers held large stakes in Cogeco Inc.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Please note, our SEC filings to date as well as our shareholder letter and press release discussing our fourth quarter and annual performance are available at investors.applovin.com. Our focus on leveraging these technologies for [Inaudible] in the CTV space and array in the carrier OEM market is just the beginning.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It even has had the financial strength to bid for one of those newer mining operations that are gunning for a piece of the lithium pie. Albemarle currently has a bid in to acquire Australia's Liontown Resources. But five years on, the company finally hit a leverage target it's comfortable with last year.

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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. billion or 1.5

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning and welcome to the AGNC Investment Corp first-quarter 2024 Shareholder Call. Leverage as of the end of the first quarter increased modestly to 7.1 (NASDAQ: AGNC) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Apr 23, 2024 , 8:30 a.m. Please go ahead.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 24, 2024

He added: “ADQ’s existing portfolio of infrastructure assets, many of which are emerging as national champions, will serve as a catalyst to leverage significant potential of public-private partnership projects together with Plenary, a leader in its field with a proven track record of delivering successful infrastructure projects globally.”

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

In summary, this improved business environment should provide a favorable backdrop for our company to continue generating significant value for our shareholders. We continue to see a good pipeline of future construction projects coming to the market, as measured by bidding activity within our downstream operations.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fund is majority shareholder of water and sewage operator Igua Saneamento and has a stake in Equatorial Energia, the lead investor in the privatization of Sao Paulo’s Sabesp, one of the largest water and sewage utilities in the world. Brazil alone takes up nearly half of this share, showing its strategic importance.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Interestingly, combined with this product and geographic expansion, RH appears to be lowering prices in an aggressive bid for market share. We're going to use the size and strength of our platform and the leverage it gives us to be disruptive from a pricing point of view. And lower "disruptive" pricing? and RH wasn't one of them!

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We delivered on those priorities, leveraging our flexible network to profitably add volume while maintaining the highest levels of service. Looking ahead, we're excited to leverage John's aviation experience as we continue to transform our air network. At Ground, our DRIVE initiatives reduced costs by $130 million this quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Meanwhile, our leverage profile continues to improve as does our outlook on future free cash flow. Overall, our strong margin expansion relative to 2019 has been driven by a combination of the favorable mix shift to higher-margin mass gaming and operating leverage on cost efficiencies. Our best days lie ahead. million in Q1 2019.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

The last 12 months’ highs of stock prices are dropping, and equity fund managers are pressuring companies to accept bids at reasonable premiums,” he says. That’s because “boards are now becoming more reasonable as the new valuation environment sets in.” “The The odd one out was a corporate divestiture, Emerson Electric.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By bringing together the powerful capabilities of our brands, including Aetna, CVS Pharmacy, CVS Healthspire and Caremark, we can deliver significant value to the customers and communities we serve and unlock tremendous potential for our shareholders. I wanted to ask about the 2025 bidding strategy. I'll turn it over to Brian.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Our primary objectives have always been to ensure that the healthcare of these communities, benefits from our business model and to protect the best interest of our shareholders. For our fixed-income investors and shareholders, the key takeaway from this amendment should be that we have repeatedly proven, especially to our lenders.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

To drive lithium market transparency and discovery, we held several successful bidding events for spodumene concentrate and lithium carbonate in March and April. Following the offering, we repaid our outstanding commercial paper resulting in improved leverage. Looking at Slide 14.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

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.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

Please note our SEC filings to date, as well as our shareholder letter discussing our second quarter performance are available at investors.applovin.com. Please be sure to review the reconciliations of our GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures in our shareholder letter available on our investor relations site.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

s second quarter 2023 shareholder call. Leverage at the end of the quarter was unchanged at 7.2 times tangible equity, while average leverage decreased from 7.7 Since quarter end, we've continued to take advantage of attractive valuations, adding MBS and bringing our at-risk leverage to 7.5 I wanted to ask about leverage.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2024

per share, creating a good value for our shareholders. Our -- our leverage would have been 4.1 We're very pleased with the resulting growth projected for 2024 with EPS growth of 15%, DCF per share and EBITDA growth of 8%, and a nice improvement in our leverage ratio to 3.9 So, you know, our leverage targets are 4.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

Based on the probability in the first half of the year, our directors have approved a cash dividend distribution of approximately $0.072 per ADS continuing to return values to our shareholders. billion through refined operational efficiency and maintained a solid shareholders' equity of over RMB 10 billion.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 24, 2024

It allows us to further leverage our subsidiaries' deep real estate expertise and the best talent in corporate services from all three organizations to execute our strategy and position CDPQ well for the future. The move follows a similar initiative by Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, announced last June.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Reign them in just a little bit such that the incremental improvements that are made can be rewarding for shareholders going forward. Then if that rumor proves to be true and an acquisition is actually announced on the day of the announcement, the stock price actually falls because it had been bid up before hand.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

This above-market growth is being driven by several factors, to improvement of user experience we minimized as a highlight, our strategic investment in chip infrastructure, which are driving faster growth in specific target regions, and a well-executed marketing campaign that is leveraging on the awareness we generated in Q4 around peak season.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

This quarter, we have successfully sourced and executed several acquisitions by leveraging our global investment team, access to scale capital and experience integrating complex platforms. We secured this opportunity as we were able to offer a compelling solution to the existing anchor shareholders. That was driver one.

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