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

MAY 24, 2024

Whereas the widely followed S&P 500 has delivered a hearty total return (including dividends paid) of around 34,700% since the Oracle of Omaha became CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , Buffett has generated aggregate returns in excess of 5,000,000% for his company's Class A shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

How can Ares Capital pay such a juicy dividend yield? It's a business development company (BDC) that's required to distribute at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. Ares Capital stands out from most BDCs, though. I don't think so.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It will receive recurring monthly option payments, which will be used to pay predictable dividends to shareholders, and will additionally receive initial deposits and proceeds from the sale of fully developed homesites. Lennar will distribute 80% of the stock of Millrose to Lennar shareholders. billion revolving credit facility.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

It all starts with its master limited partnership structure, which is designed to pass income on to investors in a tax-advantaged manner. (A A portion of the distribution is usually return of capital.) It is far more likely that it will continue to grow those disbursements, albeit slowly, as its capital investment plans pan out.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2024

These deals are expected to be completed by the end of the year and will increase the Enbridge's exposure to natural gas utilities from 12% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) to 22%. That's because the company is buying three regulated natural gas utilities from Dominion Energy.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Additionally, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was transitioned to MGM Rewards, and these regular capital investments into our resort operations drive continued guest visitation and increased spend. How concerned are you about more states looking to raise Digital or land-based taxes? million shares thus far in 2025.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The telecom giant expects to generate growing free cash flow during that period, much of which it plans to return to shareholders. AT&T expects to reinvest around $22 billion of its annual cash flow into capital investments in the 2025 to 2027 time frame. The telecom company's strategy is working.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This capital investment will pay off for investors for years with the majority of business underpinned by take-or-pay contracts and average contract lengths of over eight years. Importantly for investors, though, capital spending on midstream natural gas capacity is expected to be peaking this decade. Image source: Statista.

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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 23, 2023

This provided much-needed liquidity for the company, but it dilutes existing shareholders. That's because there is so much capital investment required to build out the nationwide logistics infrastructure. In the latest shareholder letter, management presented long-term financial targets for the company.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Learn more *Stock Advisor returns as of February 24, 2025 Consistent with previous reporting practices, adjusted production numbers cited in today's call are adjusted to exclude noncontrolling interest in Egypt and Egypt tax barrels. deferred tax benefit related to the write-off of APA's investment in our U.K.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

These are known as distributions and need to be accounted for come tax time. ET EBITDA (Quarterly) data by YCharts The chart above illustrates that Energy Transfer has steadily increased its revenue, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), and free cash flow over the last several years.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

Adjusted operating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) showed growth of 9.5% Nonetheless, noteworthy advancements continue in sustainability endeavors, a growth capital investment area projected to yield fruitful returns. Despite these achievements, adjusted EPS slipped by 2.3%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

to invest $155 million at a 10.5% CAFD yield with an investment structure that both provides desirable market participation and extended tax runway benefits. In a reflection of our enterprises scale and forward thinking, Clearway Group has already made investments in 7.8 to extend its federal tax runway.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

For context, some businesses can earn some profits from things that aren't business related, such as investments. On the other side of the equation, sometimes a one-time tax bill or other unusual expense can sap the net profits of a company even when its business operations are profitable. It could be less than a $1 billion drop.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We had a net income tax expense of $93 million in the third quarter of 2024 compared to net income tax expense of $62 million in the third quarter of 2023. Regarding the second questions, regarding the question on the logistic investment. The second question is on your cash and investments, which are close to $10 billion now.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded BDC. These specialized entities are generally popular among income-seeking investors because they can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all their earnings to shareholders as dividend payments. The BDC industry is a lucrative one because U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

billion of free cash flow after capital investments and vendor financing payments. It cut its dividend by almost 50% in 2022 following the spinoff of its media business to retain additional cash to repay debt and invest in growing its business. and Mexico. The telecom giant generated $9.1

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

Lastly, I would like to reinforce our commitment to returning excess free cash flow to our shareholders. You can see our commitment to capital returns since 2022 on Page 15. This equates to almost $1 billion in capital return to shareholders since 2022 and a share buyback amounting to 14% of our outstanding shares.

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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. Income tax expense and an effective tax rate of 20% and ex-items was $2.6

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The annual run rate of new projects is expected to be around 7 gigawatts a year, so the backlog represents decades' worth of capital investment opportunity. And there's a high likelihood that the dividend will continue to increase in the future as new capital investments get completed and start producing cash flows.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

The company estimates it could generate an additional $300 million of annual adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from this business in the coming years. So, with dividends reinvested, Enterprise Products stock generated nearly 42% returns for shareholders in the past five years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

The continued business growth and strong cash flow generation allowed us to deliver on our commitment to our shareholders. These actions demonstrate the confidence that the board and management have in the execution of our strategic priorities as we continue to focus on capital deployment to drive value for our shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

I'm pleased with the progress we're making toward delivering a compelling repositioning of our company to create maximum long-term value for shareholders, employees, customers, and other stakeholders. billion of cash after tax, which we will use to reduce debt. from the elimination of nonregulated solar investment tax credits.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And finally, we continued to track -- we continued our track record of robust capital returns, with nearly $90 million returned to shareholders over the year-to-date period as we track toward a minimum total return yield of 3.6% per share charge associated with the increased corporate tax rate in Turkiye. for the year.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2020

This is the decade we will begin to see this re-allocation of capital. We will see carbon taxed like the vice that it is in most countries around the world this decade, including in the US. We will see massive capital investments made in protecting critical regions and infrastructure.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Third, our strategic and operational improvements continue to support our ability to take actions to drive even better shareholder returns. The low carbon ventures business will help Oxy and others decarbonized at scale in a way that provides incremental value to our shareholders. I'll begin with the portfolio. per diluted share.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

.* They just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now… See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of May 6, 2024 David Gardner: Dividends are cash payments that companies make to shareholders as a reward for owning the stock. Dividend investing is not necessarily why you're tuning in here each week.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

SNDL has also posted a supplementary investor presentation along with the shareholder letter from Chief Executive Officer Zach George on its sndl.com website. SNDL's team has worked to build a scaled and diversified platform that we believe will be the basis for the creation of sustainable shareholder value. at this scale.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Going forward, you'll continue to hear how we're executing against our mission because an exceptional customer experience positions our company to deliver the best results for our shareholders. I'm confident that this partnership is in the long-term best interest of our customers and our shareholders. Continuing to Slide 12.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

These last 12 months have been a challenging environment for utility investors generally and even more so for Dominion Energy shareholders. As stewards of investor capital, we take that very seriously. Since announcing the review, I've had the opportunity to engage directly with many of our shareholders. utility customer.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

We are deliberately allocating capital to expand and enhance our networks and improve financial flexibility to drive incremental shareholder returns. impact from higher noncash pension costs, lower capitalized interest, lower equity income from DIRECTV, and a higher effective tax rate. Full year capital investment was 23.6

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

We are committed to returning excess capital to shareholders. For the full year 2023, this capital return represents a payout of 92% of our operating cash flow, excluding changes in working capital, highlighting our commitment to superior shareholder returns. MPC's investment plan, excluding MPLX, totals $1.25

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The Motley Fool

JULY 5, 2024

I know there's not just top-line growth, do I have to guess the effective tax rate for the companies I'm looking at five years from now? 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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. increased 5%, reflecting a higher tax rate compared to a year ago. Our as-adjusted tax rate for the third quarter was 26%. We continue to estimate that 25% is a reasonable projected tax run rate for the remainder of 2024.

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