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Why It Makes No Sense to Invest in the Airline Industry (and Why Boeing and General Electric Investors Will Do It Anyway)

The Motley Fool

Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC).

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Should You Buy Ford While It's Below $10?

The Motley Fool

The best businesses are the ones that can grow without requiring a lot of capital investment. Companies that require capital but that actually have growth prospects can also be attractive. This leads to persistently low profit margins and returns on invested capital. Demand can also be cyclical.

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Not Your Grandpa’s Railroad

Fortune Financial

At the turn of the twentieth century railroads were the growth industry du jour, with hundreds of railroads competing for capital investment and freight business. stock market capitalization. railroads have vastly outperformed the broader stock market over the last five-, ten-, and twenty-year periods?

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Amazon.com (AMZN) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Customers are excited about this, and as more companies find they're employing a mix of custom-built models along with leveraging existing LLMs, the prospect of these two linchpins services in SageMaker and Bedrock working well together is quite appealing. In 2023, overall capital investments were $48.4

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The 2 Most Important Questions in Investing

The Motley Fool

All a stock price tells you is what other investors or prospective investors or soon to be former investors are willing to transact at the moment. That is the cash that is left over after the company has paid all of its bill, made all of its capital investments, made all of its investments and working capital.

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Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We have designed our capital investment programs to ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. Our approach allows us to grow fast from the long term and large share EBITDA and generate industry-leading returns on invested capital. This will further support growth in 2025 and beyond.

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Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Our business strategy is predicated on investing in high-quality assets that also has scale. We've designed our capital investment programs to ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. If any market does legalize it, you have to think, what does it mean to me, my capital investment?

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