The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

It was there that investors learned three more things about Virgin Galactic, its plans, and its future prospects. How many flights will it take to recoup that capital investment? Thus, the total cost of outfitting just one Spaceport will exceed $300 million -- perhaps by a factor of two or three times.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Black Hills is out of favor at the moment, partly because it is pulling back on capital spending this year so it can focus on debt reduction. That's a prudent management decision that will likely result in higher spending next year before capital investing goes back to a more normal run rate. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

That's a normal approach here, with Nucor currently about two-thirds of the way through a $10 billion capital investment plan. Dividend Kings come in all flavors To be fair, Nucor, Black Hills, and Stanley Black & Decker are just three Dividend Kings with interesting stories and investment prospects.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Today's conference call may include forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Lennar's business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, strategies and prospects. debt to total capital ratio. Additionally, it has driven consistent and dependable cash flow even with variable bottom-line results.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2023

This new revelation could support Amazon's prospects as a long-term investment. Remember, Amazon loves investing heavily into its business, which can skew net income and free cash flow. Operating cash flow is the cash a business generates before it spends on things like capital investments, dividends , or share repurchases.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

The latter factor was probably the main catalyst for the drop, as most investors focus more on a company's prospects than its past results. The company attributed the increase in free cash flow primarily to "significantly lower working capital investment. Generac's key numbers Metric Q2 2022 Q2 2023 Change YOY Revenue $1.29

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

It's a great industry to invest in, but there is one logical problem with it: Historically, airlines don't actually cover their cost of capital. The former is simply the profits generated from the capital invested in the business, while the latter is the weighted cost of its equity and debt.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This was done because management had to choose between paying the dividend or putting money to work in capital investment projects that would grow the company. There's been a lingering consequence from Kinder Morgan's decision to cut its dividend for investors as the midstream sector's growth prospects have shifted.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2024

Operating expenses and sustaining capital are deducted to determine DCF, whereas generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) net income is reduced by depreciation. All told, Kinder Morgan checks all the boxes because it can return capital to shareholders while maintaining a healthy balance sheet and investing in future growth.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

It all has to do with the investment cycle, which is dependent on crop prices, interest rates, and other factors. Basically, if business is good for Deere's customers, there's a better chance they'll make a big capital investment. But if business is down, they may delay that big purchase. million tons of copper in 2032.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Typically, alternative investments can include commodities such as gold, physical assets like real estate, or even artwork. However, during the past several years a new asset class has garnered both attention and significant capital investment: cryptocurrency.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2023

Midstream stocks like Enterprise and Enbridge offer high yields at least partly because growth prospects for the industry are modest. The change in investor sentiment is effectively pushing share prices of high-yield investments lower (and yields higher to better compete with other options).

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

That's going to make up most of an investor's total return, with only modest growth prospects ahead. But that should change over the next year or so, with capital investment picking back up to historical levels. The proof of that is in the 25 years of annual distribution increases under its belt. population.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

He started Ample Hills Creamery four years ago with his wife, Jackie Cuscuna, after turning a home ice cream making hobby into a reality with a cart at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. I'm always struck when I visit their two main locations in Gowanus and Prospect Heights how much sheer human joy is being created.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

An endeavor such as this requires a significant capital investment, so don't expect the company to achieve profitability in the next year or two. The answer lies in appreciating the reasons for the downgrade and the company's long-term prospects.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Its prospects even led Microsoft to spend $68 billion to keep one of the leading game companies, Activision Blizzard, all to itself. Management said it would start to moderate its operating expenses and capital investments. Should you invest $1,000 in Take-Two Interactive Software right now?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Importantly, Citadel still had twice as much capital invested in Nvidia as Palantir as of June 30, so it would be wrong to assume Griffin lacks confidence in the chipmaker. Palantir has reoriented its go-to-market strategy around AIP bootcamps, workshops where prospective clients learn to use the platform in days.

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Steve Sanduski

JANUARY 22, 2025

In a nutshell: I first met Gary Roth and Mike Capelle when they were partners at United Capital, a firm they helped grow into a $25 billion RIA that was eventually sold for $750 million. Gary and Mike also reflect on the lessons they learned from scaling and selling United Capital. . Granted, the flip side of that is people.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2024

In short, it's happening because Amazon is operating at its most efficient level ever -- thanks to massive capital investments. The company ramped up capital expenditures in response to the COVID pandemic, expanding and improving its logistics network that supports its massive e-commerce business. So, how is that possible?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The move followed a presentation by Engaged Capital, one of the company's top shareholders, that laid out a case for why the stock could be undervalued. Here's why investors are excited about VF Corp's prospects Engaged Capital invests in underperforming companies on the cheap. per share on the bottom line.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The owners put up all the capital investment, making Hilton a capital-light model that simply licenses Hilton to these properties. Management's preferred method for capital returns is share repurchases. But I think it would be wise for any prospective investor to keep the stock on their watch list for now.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Rithm Capital (NYSE: RITM) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Aug 02, 2023 , 8:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good day, and welcome to the Rithm Capital second quarter 2023 earnings conference call. and Rithm Capital wasn't one of them! Image source: The Motley Fool.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

However, modest acquisition activity and capital investment plans at existing properties should help to boost growth over time, along with the company's effort to push outside of the gambling sector. All in, Vici Properties has an attractive dividend yield right now and solid prospects for continued dividend growth over time.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 24, 2024

It's a compelling mix because each side of the business can support the other when it needs cash flow to support investments in long-term growth. RTX's sustainable dividend In a display of confidence in its long-term prospects, management raised its quarterly dividend from $0.63 per share to $0.59 per share in early May.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

CFO Ruth Porat noted in the Q2 earnings call that the company's capital expenditures were "driven overwhelmingly by investment in our technical infrastructure with the largest component for servers, followed by data centers." The overall prospects for the company shouldn't change. Should you invest $1,000 in Nvidia right now?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Throughout this process, we have been strengthening the balance sheet and prudently allocating capital to prioritize returns. As you will recall, based on the joint venture agreement we have with Total, our capital spending exposure for the project will be very manageable. Lastly, we continue to deliver on our capital return framework.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

One key reason to avoid the stock is because Ford operates in the auto industry, which is extremely mature, with limited growth prospects. Any business with heavy capital investment tends to be a poor business to be in in inflation and often it's a poor business to be in generally," he said.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2024

Following such an opportunity, Microsoft spent $14 billion in capital expenditures last quarter alone, during which half of that went toward data centers and other infrastructure needs to support long-term growth. Microsoft is ramping up investment across cloud and AI software while still reporting growing profits.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2023

A capital light business What I particularly like about Etsy is its capital light business structure. Etsy doesn't have to make big capital investments to store or transport goods -- sellers take care of logistics for their shops on the platform. But if you ignore Etsy for that reason, you might be making a mistake.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

These are quality stocks that may have fallen out of favor in the short term, but their long-term prospects remain solid. What I particularly like about Etsy, though, is its capital light business model. This means Etsy doesn't have to make huge capital investments to grow.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Microsoft spent $19 billion on capital expenditures in Q4, virtually all of it on cloud and AI. Capital investments should also moderate over time, and those dollars should flow back to earnings. Overall, Microsoft's growth prospects look great. AI alone contributed eight percentage points to Azure's growth.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 13, 2023

Those with solid businesses and long-term prospects could excel in a new bull market. The company has a capital-light business model. That means it doesn't have to make huge capital investments to grow. For example, Etsy doesn't invest in storage or transportation for items sold on its website.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2024

Buffett prefers this metric when analyzing a company like Amazon because it excludes volatile unrealized capital gains and losses due to its investments. Instead of returning capital to shareholders, the company is investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) , which is already showing up in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Now could be a good time to look for attractive opportunities to boost your portfolio's long-term prospects. Because Square offers a broad range of mission-critical services to its customers, like invoicing, working capital loans, and employee payroll, its economic moat is powered by switching costs, helping to keep these merchants locked in.

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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 earnings should grow in the future , fueled by its needle-moving acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and its high-return capital investments. It builds cash and balance sheet capacity when commodity prices are higher.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

It developed an AI chatbot called Maya that's capable of writing quotes for prospective customers in under 90 seconds, and another AI bot called Jim, which can pay claims in less than three minutes without human assistance. The company is still in growth and expansion mode, which requires capital investment.

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