The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per-share basis. Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the third quarter of 2024.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

These consistent results make it clear that our fiber investment is generating attractive returns with improved operating leverage as we transition from legacy networks. These fiber-driven growth initiatives present attractive capital-efficient ways for us to provide both AT&T fiber and 5G wireless services to more customers.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let me now provide broader context into how we plan to leverage these funds to support our growth. We continue to invest strategically in technology by leveraging AI and cutting-edge tools to enhance efficiency across the group. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond the headwinds in our supply chain, we also faced some unexpected pressure in healthcare and general liability expenses this quarter, which Jim will outline in a few minutes. Traffic growth shows that we're winning with our guests, and we're making the long-term investments that have delivered strong performance over decades.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Nonoperating results for the quarter included $108 million of net investment gains, driven primarily by gains linked to a minority investment and unhedged seed capital investments. This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. So just curious how you're pacing investment spend here into '25.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We are also supporting a leading med tech company who is leveraging AI algorithms to analyze endoscopic images in real time. Customers taking advantage of our expanding global footprint include PubMatic, a digital advertising firm who expanded their partnership with Equinix to leverage AI-powered predictive analytics for their ad campaigns.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This spread was supported by $165 million of adjusted free cash flow available after dividend payments to fund investments. These spreads are based on our short-term nominal cost of capital that measures the year-one dilution from utilizing external capital and excess free cash flow on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume.

Capital 130

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

And it reflects our confidence in the increasing capital efficiency of our business going forward. And we continue to improve our capital efficiency by leveraging technology and innovation across both our foundational and emerging assets. That is one of the key advantages of operating in multiple basins.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

as we deployed capital for the benefit of FPL customers and leverage our competitive advantages to extend energy resources renewable leadership position. Florida has underlying population growth and an economy that continues to drive clear investment needs. Adjusted earnings per share grew by approximately 8.6% billion and $9.5

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

as we deployed capital for the benefit of FPL customers and leverage our competitive advantages to extend energy resources renewable leadership position. Florida has underlying population growth and an economy that continues to drive clear investment needs. Adjusted earnings per share grew by approximately 8.6% billion and $9.5

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Total capital investments in the third quarter of this year were 826 million, which included 722 million for growth projects and 99 million of sustaining capex. Capital investments for the first nine months of 2023 were 2.3 We are currently forecasting 2024 growth capital expenditures in the range of $3 billion to $3.5

Leveraging 100

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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. It's a starting point for our climate strategy as we leverage our system already be in place in new, innovative ways to continue driving down emissions even further.

Depreciation 130

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We expect adjusted free cash flow to be positive next year, and we will focus on decreasing leverage and improving liquidity. We continue to focus on our core x86 franchise and the ecosystems we have developed over 40-plus years of investing. Largely, the capex used for Intel 3, 18A and 14A highly leveraged across it.

Leveraging 130

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Earlier this week, we announced a new partnership with Google Cloud, leveraging Google's Vertex AI and Honeywell Forge to accelerate our customer transition from automation to autonomous operations. due to productivity actions and commercial excellence, partly offset by cost inflation and volume leverage.

Leveraging 130

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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 that's primarily driven by depreciation.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Second, we remain confident in the capital investments we have planned for the upcoming seasons and how those capital programs fit within our capital allocation priorities. Finally, we are laser-focused on managing near-term debt levels and reducing net leverage through growth in free cash flow.

Capital 130

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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. million due to additional capital investments.

Depreciation 130

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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 We're making strong early progress on this target.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

We also need to ensure we're leveraging the broader ecosystem and working more closely with our key partners. We will focus our R&D investment on the areas of greatest growth potential and eliminate investment in highly speculative projects that lack a strong business case. Frankly, our gross margin is too low.

Leveraging 130

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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% So, you know, our P&L, as you know, is hampered a bit by the depreciation associated with those investments.

Depreciation 100

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

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

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 246

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By leveraging our fully integrated refining system and geographic diversification across the Gulf Coast, Mid-Con, and West Coast regions our portfolio of assets is well-positioned to perform in this dynamic market environment. My question is around the capital investment you're making. Mannen -- President You're welcome, Doug.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

And this quarter, we reached a key financial milestone by returning to a fully unsecured capital structure. Our leverage was below 3.5 There were some conflicting reports out there at how much the capital investment that was going to take. And then we also feel that where we are on the leverage is within our targets.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Debt Returns 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Material costs and fixed cost leverage are also expected to improve slightly toward the back half of the year after we work through approximately $275 million of higher-cost inventories that are mainly in the U.S. We ended the quarter with net leverage at 7.2 And if I can just tag on a final one around the leverage.

Leveraging 100

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

While the success of Baldur's Gate 3 is in a league of its own, we see a long-term opportunity to leverage the richness of D&D across more games. These are high-profit partnerships that leverage great partners with iconic brands from our extensive IP vault. Our new asset-light entertainment model is already paying dividends.

Leveraging 130

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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.

Capital 240

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This is the size of a major new mine with low capital investment required, low incremental operating costs, and that will significantly enhance the value and competitive position of our Americas production. All of these projects are brownfield opportunities where we're leveraging existing assets and established operations.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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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.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

This generates sustainable net earnings growth and increases in cash flow, which supports capital investments to grow the business, which in turn creates more jobs for associates and more career opportunities and enables us to return excess capital to shareholders. We expect capital investments for 2024 to be between $3.4

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

For travelers, we provide the ability to pay in many different methods, and we can offer discounts, incentives and other merchandising opportunities for our supplier partners, our merchant offering enables us to take fraud liability from our partners as part of the services we provide reduces cancellation rates versus the agency model.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

Work is underway to implement targeted marketing efforts, leveraging Walgreens' expertise and patient touchpoints, and we expect benefits over time as we learn and further develop our provider-based risk strategy. But I see a lot of opportunities for us to meaningfully create high return on capital investments in these services business.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

We believe that as we add these new features like the channels that we're going to be adding later this year that -- and the success of our movie slate, and I'll get into that a little bit more that the pricing leverage that we have has actually increased. We're not concerned. The goal is to grow engagement on the platform.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Of fundamental importance, our 2023 investing in gaming and nongaming was accretive. Our announced 2023 capital investments were made at a blended initial unlevered investment yield of 7.7%. Our 2023 investing was also balance sheet-enhancing. billion of investment with approximately $1.6 We funded this $1.8

Assets 130

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