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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.
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 capitalinvestment that was going to take. And then we also feel that where we are on the leverage is within our targets.
Operating a telecommunications business requires a huge amount of capitalinvestment. 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.
reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. As a result of our continued focus on balance sheet efficiency and reducing our capitalinvestment, we once again continued to migrate toward our goal of becoming land-light. million shares for over $2 billion in cash. billion revolving credit facility.
Additionally, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was transitioned to MGM Rewards, and these regular capitalinvestments into our resort operations drive continued guest visitation and increased spend. We've also made some important capitalinvestments this year in high-limit slot areas, ARIA, MGM Grand, The Bellagio is underway.
deferred tax benefit related to the write-off of APA's investment in our U.K. subsidiaries and a $190 million increase in our net liability on the former Fieldwood properties. Wrapping up commentary on 2024, let me address the $190 million increase in the net contingent liability for the Fieldwood properties.
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.
This is just one example of how we leverage local trends to connect with users at an emotional level, making them feel that Free Fire is relevant and interesting. Regarding the second questions, regarding the question on the logistic investment. And second question is on the leverage in your e-commerce business model.
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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?
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.
Further, we have reduced our capitalinvestment without sacrificing research and development capacity, product innovation, or speed to market in our platform, products, and solutions. For restaurants, we are leveraging technology from Sunday to expand our pay-at-table capabilities, enabling servers to manage more tables simultaneously.
This year's growth capitalinvestments in the Williston are progressing on time and on budget and are primarily focused on the continued build out of the infrastructure on the western side of the Rough Rider system. billion revolving credit facility, resulting in a consolidated leverage ratio of approximately 4.25
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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As discussed on the year-end call in February, results in 2024 reflect a combination of regulatory lag related to our capitalinvestments 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.
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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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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.
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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as customers direct their capitalinvestments to AI and accelerated computing. Millions of professionals in legal services, sales, customer support, and education will be available to leverage AI systems trained in their fields. We expect supply to increase each quarter through next year.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
as we leverage our volume to increase efficiencies in our operating platform. As a result of our continued focus on balance sheet efficiency and reducing our capitalinvestment, we, once again, made significant progress on our goal of becoming land light. And we reduced our customer acquisition costs in our SG&A to 6.7%
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. Our sales subsequently improved in June. So, I'll pause here, move on to margin question.
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.
Second, using customer demand signal and time to value to manage our cost structure dynamically and generate durable long-term operating leverage. We expanded our data center footprint announcing investments across four continents. With that, let me highlight examples starting with Azure. Now to our segment results.
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We remain equally confident in our business strategy to invest in both the quality and scale of our market-leading assets in Macao. Our capitalinvestment programs ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. We have now commenced the next phase of our capitalinvestment program at Marina Bay Sands.
Second, we remain confident in the capitalinvestments 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.
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