The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

It needed to retain additional cash to invest in its business and repay debt. However, its leverage ratio is starting to come down (with more progress expected). Meanwhile, its investments are beginning to pay dividends. That debt reduction has lowered its leverage ratio from 3.1 AT&T benefited from $0.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Then there's the fact that Enterprise has an investment-grade rated balance sheet. Moreover, its leverage is normally toward the low end of its peer group, so it is conservative on both an absolute and relative basis. The transaction will be immediately accretive to its free cash flow and capital allocation strategy. times over.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In the past nine years, it has reduced its total net long-term debt position by 29% and lowered its leverage. As you can see in the following chart, Kinder Morgan's debt-to-capital (D/C) ratio is now just 51%, which is among the lowest of its peer group. PBA Debt To Capital (Quarterly) data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Shareholders will receive $0.88 All about cash flow Since completing its merger with Sprint in 2020, T-Mobile has produced massive free cash flow growth for shareholders. As such, it could focus its capital investments on building out its 5G network , which remains well ahead of AT&T's and Verizon's in terms of coverage.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Both companies have already seen the benefits of massive AI-related spending for their business and shareholders. At the same time, its adjusted- operating margin expanded to 38% from 29% a year ago, as it leverages its growing scale. Palantir stock is up 230% this year alone, as of this writing.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

billion of free cash flow after capital investments and vendor financing payments. That's helping push down its leverage ratio , from 3.1 leverage target in the first half of next year. Once AT&T reaches its targeted leverage level, the company will have more excess free cash it could return to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

The main factor holding back dividend growth in recent years has been the company's heavy investments to expand its midstream systems. While those investments grew its earnings, its leverage ratio also increased. Leverage has fallen from 4.6 Stomping on the gas Oneok has increased capital investments in recent years.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 20, 2024

With a higher sales volume, Tesla would have the economies of scale to reduce its unit-production cost, giving it even more leverage to lower its selling price further. The opportunity might be huge, but the company must execute well to create long-term shareholder value. For perspective, operating margin has fallen from 16.8%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We leverage our development capabilities to explore innovation and bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with our commitment to digital asset growth. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be accretive to existing shareholders. Since August 2020, we've invested $836 million of total cash on our balance sheet.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

clean energy developer, today announced that it has raised a $1.2bn capital package to support the expansion of its large-scale renewable energy portfolio comprising utility-scale transmission and storage, onshore wind and solar generation, and offshore wind. energyRe, an independent U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

If you're seeking passive income from your investment portfolio, Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is one stock that may have caught your attention. Hercules Capital invests in venture-backed start-ups, and offers an ultra-high dividend payout of over 10% annually.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Avoiding the need to tap the capital markets The most prominent benefit for miners from working with Wheaton, or peers like Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE: FNV) , is that they don't have to sell stock or issue debt. Selling stock dilutes shareholders and can lead to stock price weakness.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

Meta leverages powerful AI-driven algorithms to recommend relevant content, which in turn helps boost user engagement. While the company continues its heavy investments in AI initiatives and the metaverse, it is also returning significant value to shareholders as dividends and share repurchases. With over 3.2

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

However, the company has higher leverage than many of its peers, which was a negative while interest rates were on the rise. Management is projecting earnings growth of between 4% and 6% a year through 2028, driven by a five-year capital investment plan worth around $4.3 Black Hills serves 1.3 population growth. That's good.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The oil and gas company has a two-pronged strategy to drive that earnings growth: cost savings and capital investments. It's pursuing several opportunities to reduce costs, including leveraging its growing scale to capture additional cost savings and modernizing its information technology systems.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We've increased our regular dividend rate 160%; and including both regular and special dividends, paid or committed to pay more than $13 billion directly to shareholders; and $3.2 billion of that free cash flow back to our shareholders through a mix of our regular dividend and opportunistic share repurchases. We generated $1.6

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

The cash that miners receive is usually put toward capital investment projects, like the construction of new mines or the upgrading of existing ones. However, if you see precious metals as a diversification tool , then Wheaton allows you to get exposure to gold and silver without having to invest in a miner or hold bullion.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories' second quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2024

However, Enbridge has reliable cash flows from its fee-based, regulated, and contract-driven income streams and should be able to handle the additional leverage. The benefit of the acquisitions is that Enbridge will have more regulated utility assets, which have fairly reliable capital investment and return profiles.

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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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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The fund is the largest of its type since 2018 and one of the five biggest to date, according to Convergence, which tracks the market and said the fund also stood out for the high ratio of private capital invested for every dollar of public funds. The 9-1 ratio is much higher than on average, according to Convergence.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Though a 15% yield is typically viewed as unsustainable for most companies, Annaly has supported an average yield of around 10% over the past two decades and returned $25 billion to shareholders since its initial public offering in 1997. This leverage allows Annaly to maximize its profit potential and sustain a double-digit yield.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 24, 2024

Exxon currently has a high Aa2/AA- credit rating and a low 14% net debt-to-capital ratio. Its net leverage ratio is 6% after factoring in the $26.5 Its earnings should grow in the future , fueled by its needle-moving acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and its high-return capital investments. billion this year to $4.7

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2024

It has sold businesses that don't align with the "three D's" and recycled that capital into new ones that capitalize on one or more of those megatrends. This strategy could pay big dividends for the company and its shareholders in the coming years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

It keeps leverage low so it can lean on its balance sheet when times are tough to support the dividend. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) Medical Properties Trust and Boston Properties are examples of this, noting that leverage is material in the property sector. Energy giant ExxonMobil is a good example.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 26, 2024

There's a good reason for that, however, because operating a utility is a capital-intensive business. There's no way around that, noting also that the utility tends to use more leverage than some of its larger peers. That dividend growth has hugely boosted shareholder returns so far. population growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. 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. trillion, 11.5

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our plan to source corporate growth capital is first from retained CAFD; second, with access corporate debt capacity in line with our target BB rating; and third, we may lead to issue external equity to fund investments to the extent such investment would be sufficiently accretive to shareholders. that we have set today.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2024

Kinder Morgan has done a good job of balancing investments and financial discipline. It has continued to reduce its leverage and now plans to finish the year with a net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio of just 3.9.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

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. After which, we'll be happy to take your questions.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

And as we look forward, we're very optimistic about the markets we serve, our portfolio of high-quality copper assets, and the future prospects for strong cash flow generation to support investments and value-enhancing projects and returns to shareholders. You'll note that we're highly leveraged to copper price with each $0.10

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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.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

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. What's important about this 12% mark for Vail is that it easily exceeds its weighted average cost of capital, which has averaged 8% since 2018.

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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. 1 priority is to unlock shareholder value. In our All Other category, our No.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Further, we have reduced our capital investment 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.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

It's been a little over two months since I joined Coherent, and I'm more excited today about the potential of this company and the opportunity for shareholder value creation than the first day I joined. Of course, innovation is only meaningful if it ultimately has impact on people's lives and translates into shareholder value creation.

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