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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Our Q3 adjusted EBITDA results reflect a continuation of our strong gross margin performance, our disciplined approach to cost management, and the ongoing benefits of fixed cost leverage as we scale. Autoship customer sales as a percentage of total net sales increased by 290 basis points to 80%, a new company record. million or 6.7%

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Source: Northern Wholesale Supply NWS also goes to market under company-owned brands Extreme Max , Boat Lift Boss , and Ultra Legs. Extreme Max offers tools and accessories like heavy-duty trailer wheel chocks, dock bumpers, and snowmobile storage equipment.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Kinder Morgan made a hard call Cutting a dividend is not something that most companies want to do, but sometimes it is the right choice. This was done because management had to choose between paying the dividend or putting money to work in capital investment projects that would grow the company.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

The company distributed about $4.4 That's a very conservative level for a pipeline company. billion in capital investments over the past year and $200 million in unit repurchases. leverage ratio and one of the highest credit ratings in the midstream sector. Over the last 12 months, the MLP has produced $8.4

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AUGUST 25, 2023

And that means the pipeline company could have lots of fuel to grow its dividend, which already yields an attractive 5.9%. The pipeline company kept its payout flat from the start of 2020 until earlier this year, when it provided investors with a modest 2% raise. Leverage has fallen from 4.6 at the end of 2020 to 3.25

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

It's a relatively small real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in the long-term healthcare industry. It invests in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities operated by other healthcare companies. The healthcare REIT's investments have paid big dividends for its investors throughout the years.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

The energy sector is chock-full of quality dividend-paying companies -- many of which sport inexpensive valuations. If you invest $9,000 into each of the following stocks -- ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) , Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) , and Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) -- you can expect to earn over $1,000 a year from dividend income alone.

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MAY 20, 2024

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is arguably one of the most successful companies in the last decade, turning around its business from the brink of bankruptcy to become one of the most-profitable car manufacturers globally. Despite its huge success, the company is not resting on its laurels. This strategy offers plenty of benefits.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

This year, some notable companies have cut or eliminated their dividends. It's a situation that can make some investors want to give up altogether on income investing. Then there's the fact that Enterprise has an investment-grade rated balance sheet. The company has been on an acquisition-fueled expansion binge in recent years.

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MARCH 28, 2025

These companies have increased their dividend payout every year for at least five decades. That's a normal approach here, with Nucor currently about two-thirds of the way through a $10 billion capital investment plan. This company is one of the few utilities to reach Dividend King status, and its roughly 4.5% population.

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JULY 21, 2023

In the past 22 years, the company has evolved to feature local and global designer brands — more than 14,000 in total. That initiative focuses on the growth of innovative companies that specialize in software, consumer technology and FinTech in Asia Pacific. Musinsa is the latest fashion-related investment for KKR in the past year.

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JULY 22, 2023

Alexandria Real Estate Equities has been one of the casualties of this crunch, but this real estate investment trust (REIT) operates using a very different model from its sector peers. and the company's hometown of San Diego. and the company's hometown of San Diego. While its leverage ratio of 5.2 data centers).

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APRIL 20, 2024

However, there are other companies that have similar businesses, including ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM). That's important because during energy downturns Chevron takes on leverage so that it can continue to support its business and its dividend. By comparison, the company with the next strongest balance sheet, Exxon, is only offering a 3.1%

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AUGUST 15, 2023

While it can be tempting to invest in young EV companies hoping to grow into industry giants, that's a risky proposition. It's capital-intensive and prone to severe downturns. The new version of GM that emerged from that process is a very different company. The auto business is hard. billion of debt. billion of debt.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The company owns a portfolio of nearly 1,300 high-quality, operationally critical warehouse, industrial, and retail properties leased to credit-worthy tenants. The company's real estate spans North America and Europe. The company expects to generate between $4.63 Its leverage ratio was 5.4 per share each quarter or $3.48

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,034 !*

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JANUARY 16, 2025

A strong balance sheet is a key part of the story, but so, too, is the company's diversified business, which includes upstream (production), midstream (pipeline), and downstream (chemicals and refining) assets. As a midstream company, Enterprise is a toll taker, collecting fees for the use of its energy infrastructure assets.

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JULY 15, 2024

billion people -- nearly 40% of the global population -- using at least one of the company's apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger) daily, the company enjoys exceptional user reach and engagement. Meta leverages powerful AI-driven algorithms to recommend relevant content, which in turn helps boost user engagement.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But there's one more option, and that's buying a streaming/royalty company like Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE: WPM). Wheaton's customers get big benefits No company can succeed for very long if its customers don't benefit from the products being offered. Here are some of the key reasons why you might want to buy a stock like Wheaton.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Annaly Capital Management: 14.81% yield One surefire way to receive more than triple the yield of long-term Treasury bonds is to purchase shares of mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY). This leverage allows Annaly to maximize its profit potential and sustain a double-digit yield.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

The company benefited from its investment-grade bond rating (A-/A3) and the expectation that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates in 2024. It will use the rest to help fund growth capital investments while maintaining a strong liquidity profile. (It Its leverage ratio was 3.0 It had about $3.8

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

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JULY 8, 2024

That's because the company is buying three regulated natural gas utilities from Dominion Energy. That's a big change, helping to reduce the company's reliance on oil pipelines, which will fall from 57% of EBITDA to 50%. For starters, the company is growing briskly. dividend yield is changing in 2024.

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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. Last month, private equity firm EQT offered offered to acquire Swedish renewable energy company OX2 for $1.5

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The company made the move to retain additional cash to reinvest in its business and reduce debt. It had struggled to deleverage its balance sheet in the years following that cut, which caused concerns that the company might need to reduce its dividend again. billion of net debt, which put its leverage ratio at nearly 2.9

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AUGUST 16, 2024

billion outstanding shares , the company pays out about $2 billion in dividends each quarter and roughly $8 billion each year. The company reduced its net debt by $1.9 That's allowing it to steadily reduce its leverage ratio. It's targeting to get its leverage ratio down to the 2.5x With nearly 7.2

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JANUARY 4, 2024

To highlight that, the company has increased its dividend annually for 36 consecutive years. When the energy market improves again, as it always has historically, leverage is reduced. But that should change over the next year or so, with capital investment picking back up to historical levels. Image source: Getty Images.

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JULY 30, 2024

The telecom and broadband company slashed its payout by nearly half in early 2022 following the spinoff of its media business into Warner Bros. It needed to retain additional cash to invest in its business and repay debt. However, its leverage ratio is starting to come down (with more progress expected). times to less than 2.9

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

As usual, I'm going to give a macro and strategic overview of the company. reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. Rausch Coleman is led by John Rausch, a fourth-generation builder, who built his company into the 21st largest homebuilder in the country. million shares for over $2 billion in cash.

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APRIL 3, 2025

The average energy company has a dividend yield of around 3.1% Midstream companies own energy infrastructure, like pipelines , that help to move oil and natural gas around the world. For the most part, midstream companies like Enbridge are toll-takers. Enbridge 's (NYSE: ENB) dividend yield is materially higher at 5.8%.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

Here's why the future looks bright for the pipeline and infrastructure company and why the dividend stock is worth buying now. Kinder Morgan has done a good job of balancing investments and financial discipline. Granted, many big tech companies have been adamant about converting to net-zero carbon emissions.

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APRIL 30, 2024

First, companies have largely completed the lion's share of their cost optimization and turned their attention to newer initiatives. Companies are pursuing this relatively low-hanging fruit in modernizing their infrastructure. We're seeing a few trends right now. The top of the stack are the GenAI applications being built.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even before the sell-off, Enbridge had one of the highest yields of the major North American pipeline companies. If the newly acquired assets were immediately rolled into Enbridge in 2023, then gas distribution would make up 22% of the company's estimated 2023 EBITDA. Gas distribution makes up 12% of Enbridge's 2023 estimated EBITDA.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ashton Thomas Private Wealth, a leading diversified financial advisory firm that specializes in advising affluent individuals and families, foundations, and business entities, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to join Arax Investment Partners , RedBird Capital Partners’ wealth management platform company.

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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. Last month, private equity firm EQT offered offered to acquire Swedish renewable energy company OX2 for $1.5

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The company used a portion of its cash flow to pay its lucrative distribution. billion on capital investments last year, including $3.9 billion for growth projects, $949 million to acquire Pinon Midstream, and $667 million for sustaining capital projects. It ended the year with a leverage ratio of 3.1.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Picking stocks of companies with sustainable competitive advantages and robust financial health helps create wealth that can be passed down through generations. The company had 60,000 Azure AI customers at the end of the fourth quarter, up 60% on a year-over-year basis. Historically, the U.S. billion in fiscal 2024.

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