The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

Applovin (NASDAQ: APP) has left shareholders head over heels with an enchanting 379% return over the past year. AppLovin's MAX marketplace is a bidding platform where advertisers compete in real-time auctions to place ads in apps. The company helps developers monetize their apps with a seamless user experience.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

When a big shareholder sells such a substantial amount, it can have a massive impact on the stock price. Blue Origin is currently bidding on acquiring a second space company, United Launch Alliance. SEC filings show the centibillionaire sold 1.67 million shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock earlier this month.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

Importantly, scale can play an important role in driving down costs for shareholders. 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.

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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 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

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. Return on capital employed basically measures how well a company invests capital on behalf of its shareholders. Have you missed out? Here's what you need to know.

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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

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 did what we thought was in the best interest of shareholders, and that's a transformative transaction. We're in the market every day bidding on our type property. Probably not. We'll see how that develops.

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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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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

Zuber will retain his existing shareholding in EG Group while his brother Mohsin will become sole CEO. EG Group said it has now refinanced all of its debt due to have matured in 2025 “against a backdrop of a very challenging leveraged finance and high-yield corporate bond market.” billion Sterling bond tranche in 2021.

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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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Our strong financial performance, debt refinancing, and early achievement of net leverage ratio goals have allowed for a tighter focus on equity dilution management. We are pleased to report that our net leverage ratio was 0.9x My two questions are these, also at the same time, net leverage, 0.9 at the end of Q2. million shares.

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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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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

That's what shareholders in U.S. The Pittsburgh-based iconic steel company received a buyout bid from a Japanese counterpart that could reshape the entire steelmaking industry. Shareholders will receive $55 per share for their U.S. The fact that those stocks have languished makes them attractive as takeover targets.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Shareholders will receive $0.88 All about cash flow Since completing its merger with Sprint in 2020, T-Mobile has produced massive free cash flow growth for shareholders. It's now targeting 12 million home internet subscribers by 2027, primarily leveraging the added capacity of its 5G network. Image source: Getty Images.

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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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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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The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

Its total debt is now around $30 billion, an admittedly huge level, considering its shareholders' equity is only $6.8 Since Carnival is selling nearly all of its available capacity and continues to add ships, investors are likely to respond by bidding the share price higher. Still, that debt has dropped by around $1.2

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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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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

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Full year free cash flow grew 45% to $679 million of which we returned $486 million to shareholders, nearly double what we distributed in the prior year. Total shareholder distributions were $91 million in the quarter, and $486 million for the full year. Adjusted EBITDA improved to nearly $1.4

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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

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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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

MARCH 20, 2024

Our earnings release and letter to shareholders, which were filed with the SEC earlier today have been posted to the Investor Relations section of our website investor.chewy.com. We believe we are well positioned to continue driving innovation across the pet category while simultaneously creating significant value for our shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Our foundational code on page and engagement data signals continue to enable us to leverage our proprietary data and AI to innovate these solutions for advertisers. Leica leveraged the Onyx brand studio to create a custom high-impact format that enabled audiences to experience the immersive moments of the Leica Home Cinema.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

This simple straightforward transaction provides a clear-cut separation of global lottery from gaming and digital for IGT shareholders. billion, which provides a quicker realization of value upon closing, thereby eliminating IGT shareholder exposure to execution risk regarding integration efforts and synergies. Liquidity of $1.7

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

In preparation for the upcoming tender, IGT and our current partners have entered into memorandums of understanding to maintain the existing joint venture structure for the new bid. We've had continued success with a multichannel focus, leveraging strong land-based franchises in the digital arena. online games. billion in liquidity.

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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

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

JANUARY 23, 2024

ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the AGNC Investment Corp fourth-quarter 2023 shareholder call. While average leverage was largely unchanged for the quarter at 7.4 Ma'am, please go ahead. of dividends per common share and $1.14

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The board has decided those are the three things that are actually driving the most shareholder value. In the short term, we made some trade-offs, some strategic trade-offs that Hans and I feel very good about to drive shareholder value. But where does the value come for Verizon and its shareholders? We know how it feels.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In addition, we believe that these tools give us unique bidding capabilities that drive ROAS for performance advertisers across the open internet. We've seen great success with adoption of our key automated bidding product, Conversion Bid Strategy. Today, 73% of our native ad platform customers use Conversion Bid Strategy.

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