The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2024

Enterprise has low leverage relative to peers You can find other companies offering high yields in the midstream space. But Enterprise actually stands out from its closest peers because its debt-to-EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) ratio is roughly 3.1 That's the lowest of the group today.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Then the pandemic hit, and low oil prices coupled with a heavily leveraged balance sheet forced Occidental to make a dividend cut. It's investing heavily to build out direct air capture (DAC) projects that would suck carbon dioxide from the air for permanent sequestration underground. That's a 25% increase from last year's level.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While we continue to maintain strong credit ratings, a solid balance sheet, and long-term earnings growth outlook of 4% to 6%, our earnings guidance for 2024 reflects a combination of lag related to our capital investments and inflationary pressures that we are experiencing simultaneously. We reported net income of $44.6

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The Motley Fool

JULY 18, 2024

Turning to our finances, revenue growth of 14% in the quarter reflect solid procedure performance and strong capital placements. Product margins were above our expectations, reflecting a combination of cost reductions, fixed overhead leverage, and some one-time nonrecurring benefits. And so, great performance in the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

As discussed on the year-end call in February, results in 2024 reflect a combination of regulatory lag related to our capital investments and inflationary pressures. First-quarter 2024 results include higher pension, depreciation, and interest expense compared to the same period in 2023. Utility margin increased $0.5

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

I firmly believe Duluth Trading is uniquely positioned to expand its reach, and I am excited to leverage my experience to drive our next phase of profitable growth. million and leveraged 250 basis points to 44.3% EPS was weighed down by noncash depreciation expenses from infrastructure investments. million or 5.2%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Smart capital continues to guide the pace and breadth of our global capacity expansion, and our new operating model has uncovered opportunities to build and utilize manufacturing capacity more efficiently. And now that we've paid the capital to catch up, and I'll view this catch-up capital, you know, we had no spare capacity.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Our spending reflects investment in research and development to support the growth of our platforms and digital tools, expansion of our manufacturing facilities, and planned leverage from our enabling functions. SG&A expenses continue to leverage as we benefit from prior investments that allow us to scale efficiently with growth.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.66, down from 1.76 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years. We will remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet and advancing to our stated goal of achieving a leverage ratio of 1.5 million or 10%. last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

We're also providing updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. After which, we'll be happy to take your questions.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is translating into improved operating leverage, as evidenced by the adjusted EBITDA margin expansion we delivered in 2023. For the quarter, capital expenditures were 4.6 billion, with capital investments of 5.6 Full year capital investment was 23.6 higher depreciation.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

This means we're growing the large majority of our business and driving improved operating leverage across it. This focus on efficiency is translating into improved operating leverage despite continued elevated inflation. This brings me to our final priority, which is our deliberate and balanced approach to capital allocation.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

With respect to our manufacturing capabilities and capital investment plans, during the quarter, we initiated local Xi system production in China, allowing us to participate in tenders that require a domestically produced system. We also completed the transfer of X system production to our East Coast hub near Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The decrease of 160 basis points was driven by the negative impacts from lower volume and negative operating leverage. The decrease of 290 basis points was driven by the negative impacts from lower volumes, negative operating leverage, moderate inflation, and less favorable net pricing, which includes overall sales incentives.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

But leveraging our multiple scenario planning, we swiftly -- we responded by launching attractive offers to drive sales. This was primarily due to operating leverage derived from higher sales and ongoing benefit of cost structure rebasing efforts. Rental expense and depreciation improved year over year. Thanks, Joey.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Yield is our single biggest lever for margin improvement going forward, and we have multiple initiatives underway to leverage the gains we're making in service quality and operating excellence. Depreciation expense in the quarter increased by 24%, or $12, million driven by our investments in the LTL network.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Revenue was at the higher end of our guidance, and we had strong EPS upside as a result of our ongoing relentless focus on driving operating leverage and expense management, including comfortably meeting our $3 billion cost savings commitment for fiscal year '23. 2023 was definitely a year when we did what we said we would do and more.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As we had previously mentioned, we can leverage our large engine platforms across a variety of applications. In February of 2024, we announced a multiyear capital investment in our large reciprocating engine division to approximately double output capability compared to 2023 for new engines and aftermarket parts.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Looking ahead, we have developed an ambitious plan that seeks to enhance our growth trajectory and drive permanent improvement in CMC's margin profile by leveraging both accretive organic projects and inorganic growth in attractive adjacent markets. million, excluding depreciation. Including depreciation, costs amounted to $25.3

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Combined with the $252 million of common unit repurchases over the same period, our total capital return was $4.8 We returned roughly $1 billion more than our growth capital expenditures were for the same period. Total capital investments in the third quarter of 2024 were $1.2 billion, which included $1.1 billion to $3.75

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

As reflected in the reconciliation we've provided in the earnings documents posted to our website, cash COGS per metric ton excludes depreciation and amortization, as well as cost of goods associated with byproduct sales and other noncash factors. Arun Viswanathan -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst Right, thanks for that.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Over the last several years, we've been implementing improved systems for managing both personnel and process safety, leveraging best practices from across our company and industry, our own and others. Overall, our portfolio of low-carbon investments is expected to generate returns of approximately 15%.

Capital 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Included in adjusted gross profit is a one-time favorable noncash adjustment to depreciation expense worth approximately $9.5 We note this as a temporary delay, which will impact the first and second quarters and be reflected as a higher working capital investment in accounts receivable. million, impacting non-GAAP EPS by $0.06

Mergers and Acquisitions 130

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 5, 2024

Many of these stores had been underinvested in for years and the capital investment required to fix them could not deliver an acceptable rate of return. Adjusted SG&A increased primarily from temporary labor for Dollar Tree's multi-price rollout, higher depreciation and amortization and sales deleverage.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This underscores our confidence and the returns will be generated by our capital investment programs in our portfolio. LVS has invested $15 billion in Macao, which is the most important land-based market in the world. It sounds like transportation bottlenecks are no longer really the issue in Macao, if it's the RMB depreciation?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Finally, we'll provide a comprehensive capital investment forecast update through 2029 on our fourth quarter earnings call, which will take place as usual in early 2025. Given these drivers, we expect there to be opportunities for incremental regulated capital investment toward the back end of our plan and beyond.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Finally, the project's financial structure has been designed to allocate substantially all of the depreciation benefits to Clearway Energy, Inc. Subject to the evaluation and approval of our GCN Committee, we would aim to make an investment commitment in the second half of 2024 and to fund the investment by the end of 2025.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

The sequential reduction in pro forma gross margin primarily reflects higher fixed costs including depreciation expense for expanded manufacturing capacity and higher costs associated with the launch of da Vinci 5. Pro forma gross margin for the first quarter of 2024 was 67.6%, compared with 67.2% Pro forma other income was $72.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

The increase in total SG&A dollars is directly a result of the NuVasive merger, partially offset by cost actions taken as well as fixed cost leverage on spending. This temporary delay impacted the first and second quarters, reflected as a higher working capital investment in accounts receivable. million or 37.8%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within each of these markets, we see significant opportunities that can leverage our know-how and core technology that have been developed over the last 25-plus years of Vuzix. Depreciation and amortization expense increased to $1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2023, versus $0.4 million in the prior year's period.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Our AWS customers are also quite excited about leveraging GenAI to change the customer experiences and businesses. And today, we announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development and leveraging company's internal data. Worldwide operating income was $15.3

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Our execution excellence, our technological innovation, and our tremendous portfolio of growth opportunities, flows from our strategy and focus on fully leveraging our core capabilities and competitive advantages. We're leveraging the cube design that we had and applying it to good effect in the Pioneer acreage. Thanks for the answers.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Our net leverage ratio improved with record adjusted EBITDA, which increased 25% over the first quarter with expected production and current prices, along with the remaining $14.8 This larger dividend payment highlights our unique silver-linked dividend policy, which provides additional exposure and leverage to silver prices.

Capital 130

Capital Leveraging Assets Banks 130

The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

This new action will offset about $1 billion in depreciation and amortization, which means that relative to 2022, our automotive fixed costs will be down $2 billion on a net basis as we exit '24. So we are definitely leveraging that technology because that's going to really help us get costs down. And it's not by accident.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

This growth was supported by a net sales increase of 5% at an enterprise level and solid operating leverage that resulted in an increase of 7% in comparable operating income, representing an enterprise-comparable operating margin of nearly 33%. billion in operating cash flow, and we're able to reduce our net leverage ratio by nearly 0.5

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Depreciation Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

The focus is to leverage FDJ's full suite of eInstant games in Italy and IGT's full suite of eInstants in France. At the same time, we made important investments in growth, especially in the B2B iCasino and iLottery space. Net debt leverage of 3.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

ARA has supplied a catalyst for growth, and our goal is to leverage it to help create a position of strength for the country, both now and after the term of the incentives. We are featured with the work done by the Biden administration to provide a solid legislative foundation for domestic solar manufacturing. and we welcome it.

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