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The Fed Just Lowered Interest Rates. My Top High-Yield Dividend Stock to Buy Now.

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Lower interest rates lower the cost of capital and can increase the return on investment for capital-intensive projects. In the past nine years, it has reduced its total net long-term debt position by 29% and lowered its leverage. PBA Debt To Capital (Quarterly) data by YCharts.

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2 Stocks I Bought Last Week

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The company's parks and cruises are doing well, so much so that Disney will double its capital investments over the next decade to $60 billion. The company's vast trove of intellectual property and its track record of leveraging those assets across its entire business are its key competitive advantages.

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Warren Buffett Owns Occidental, but You Should Consider These 3 Energy Stocks Instead

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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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2 Growth Stocks Wall Street Might Be Sleeping On, but I'm Not

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Its wide moat means that as long as the company operates efficiently, it could generate market-beating returns over the long haul. And historically, it has done just that, generating a 12% cash return on invested capital over the last decade. MTN Cash Return on Capital Invested (CROCI) (TTM) data by YCharts.

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Core Laboratories (CLB) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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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NCR (VYX) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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While platform conversions with enterprise customers often have longer sales cycles and take time to deploy, once implemented, they are accretive to revenue and margin and create a return on investment for our customers. times net leverage, 2.7 We anticipate net leverage at year-end will be approximately 3.4

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Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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. You're at double-digit return on invested capital.