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Should You Buy the 3 Highest-Paying Dividend Stocks in the Dow Jones?

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Operating a telecommunications business requires a huge amount of capital investment. Verizon's leverage, however, is higher than that of its two main competitors. Verizon's leverage has fallen dramatically over the past decade, so it is moving in the right direction on this front.

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Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, operating margins increased roughly 6 points driven by improved operating leverage through cost management and the higher gross margin noted earlier. And so, I think that focus is really helping on both execution and leverage. Now to our segment results. Thank you, guys.

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Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Total capital investments in the second quarter of 2023 were $784 million, which included $683 million for growth capital projects and 101 million of sustaining capital expenditures. We ended the quarter with a consolidated leverage ratio of 3.0 Leverage just continues to decline or I think 2 billion to 2.5

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Amazon.com (AMZN) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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And third, builders and companies of all sizes are excited about leveraging AI. While many teams will build their own models, lots of others will leverage somebody else's frontier model, customize it with their own data and seek a service that provides broad model selection and great generative AI capabilities.

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Core Laboratories (CLB) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

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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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We leverage our development capabilities to explore innovation and bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with our commitment to digital asset growth. Since August 2020, we've invested $836 million of total cash on our balance sheet. And three, cash flows from our software operations. So where do we go next from here?

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Intel (INTC) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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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