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DECEMBER 9, 2024

To that end, we are leveraging the learnings from early service engagement to develop new tools to accelerate future modernization efforts. Third, we are investing to capitalize on our inherent technical advantages as a key component of the emerging AI tech stack. Michael is excited to take a well-deserved break.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We will leverage our strong partnerships and continue collaborating with veterinarians to expand treatment adoption, shifting away from two decades of reliance on NSAIDs. For example, in September, we announced a strategic partnership with Danone to leverage Zoetis' genetic testing capabilities and promoting sustainable dairy production.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Since Enact's IPO, Genworth has received $903 million in capital returns, including $289 million in 2024. who can leverage that access to optimize quality care, affordable pricing, and personalized service. based reinsurer to help manage risk and capital efficiency for this initial product. billion at year-end 2024, up from $3.8

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JULY 26, 2023

That provided the telecom giant with enough money to cover capital expenses (which declined by 4% to $10.1 The company ended the first half with a net leverage ratio of 2.6 As a result, capital spending has come down considerably. After spending $6 billion in the first quarter, Verizon's capital spending was $4.1

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JANUARY 6, 2025

steel import levels; construction activity; demand for finished steel products; the expected capabilities, benefits, and timeline for construction of new facilities; the company's operations; the company's strategic growth plan; legal proceedings; the company's future results of operations; financial measures; and capital spending.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We're very pleased with Enact's operational strength's capital levels and consistent shareholder distributions. We remain very pleased with our approximately 81% ownership of Enact, which has contributed approximately $819 million in capital to Genworth since its IPO, including $81 million in the third quarter.

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MARCH 21, 2025

The brand is set to launch and begin delivery in April, leveraging NIO's [Inaudible] network for rapid market expansion. Foreign language] And regarding your question on the efficiency improvement and also the synergies can be leveraged between two brands. Can we see a little bit breakdown into a refreshed capex guidance this year?

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APRIL 29, 2024

In addition, it also enables us to acquire bitcoin through the use of excess cash or proceeds from equity capital raises or corporate debt capital raises. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Led by our employees' commitment to operational excellence and capital discipline, we outperformed on oil, natural gas, and NGL volumes for the quarter, as well as beating expectations on per-unit cash operating costs. And it reflects our confidence in the increasing capital efficiency of our business going forward. We generated $1.6

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

And finally, it has enabled the consistent and predictable takedown of just in time delivered fully developed home site, and that has attracted capital to the structured land banking partnerships that have driven the nearly $20 billion of transaction that have enabled our land-light transformation to date. debt to total capital ratio.

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AUGUST 24, 2024

While higher interest rates have made it harder to find accretive equity investments, Realty Income has capitalized on the situation by starting to invest in real estate credit. The REIT capitalized on higher interest rates to lock in a high cash yield on a very stable credit investment. That move could pay big dividends in the future.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

We expect continued year-over-year improvement in the fourth quarter as governed by sales performance given the leverage deleverage nature of service. SG&A leveraged by 640 basis points driven by the growth and gross profit and our continued expense efficiency actions. million shares for a total spend of $115 million.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

We have robust plans that leverage the demand for flavor and the strength of our brands. Our team remains focused on returning to our long-term growth algorithm, strengthening our profitability, continuing our strong cash flow, paying down our debt, and reducing our leverage ratio. McCormick remains a growth company.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is a function of investors being concerned following a July report from The Wall Street Journal that alleged legacy telecom companies utilizing lead-sheathed cables could face large environmental/health liabilities, as well as replacement costs. Furthermore, any potential liabilities would likely be determined by the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The remaining 50 basis points were driven by ROD leverage. SG&A as a percentage of net sales was 33.4%, leveraging 130 basis points versus last year's reported rate and 110 basis points versus last year's adjusted rate primarily due to lower advertising costs in the quarter. Now, let me turn to SG&A. SG&A was $1.3

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

billion of cash flow this year and have reached a key financial milestone while returning to a fully unsecured capital structure that will support our growth ambitions and expanding capital allocation. And this quarter, we reached a key financial milestone by returning to a fully unsecured capital structure. Thanks, everybody.

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MARCH 27, 2025

For 3D Systems, we leverage our unmatched application engineering expertise and depth and breadth of technology and our global footprint to focus on strategic industries such as the ones shown on this slide. Next question is coming from Greg Palm from Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Continuing this theme, let's turn to Slide 8.

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MARCH 13, 2025

In addition to the opportunity to increase sales and ultimately realize further growth in the pOpshelf banner, we are also able to leverage learnings from this banner and apply them in our non-consumable categories in our Dollar General stores to further strengthen that offering for our DG customers. Net sales growth in the range of 3.4%

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MARCH 5, 2025

Please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements relating to the company's future performance, which are intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability as established by the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Our average monthly active shippers surpassed 2.93

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JULY 17, 2024

All three companies are well run and efficiently allocate capital. It nearly doubled its capital expenditures over the last five years, pouring money into new stores, existing store renovations, and Walmart+ -- its e-commerce home delivery option. ITW Return on Capital Employed data by YCharts. Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

There's little indication that the business has enough free capital to invest in purchasing additional properties to reverse the trend. Issuing a tremendous amount of new shares to raise capital could potentially help, but it'd inflict massive losses on shareholders in the process, and it wouldn't be enough on its own.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And finally, ensuring that we are disciplined stewards of capital as we continue to strengthen our balance sheet, manage our portfolio of businesses and deploy capital to create value for our shareholders. Our leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was approximately 4.7 We ended the quarter with approximately $3.8

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JUNE 22, 2023

Billionaire Bill Ackman manages hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, and he's comfortable with the idea of contrarian investing. Among the problems that Ackman saw was an enormous amount of leverage. He said the company's liabilities-to-equity ratio was 139 to 1.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Ford also has a healthy balance sheet that should allow it to return plenty of capital to its shareholders. There's no doubt that AT&T's dividend is safe with its leverage declining. If there were ever to be any health-related liability claims against the company, they'd almost certainly be settled in court.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The company is leveraging cutting-edge generative AI technology in Copilot to automate and manage diverse business tasks. The company operates a relatively asset-light business model, since capital is not required to cover potential delinquencies. All these initiatives can further help strengthen Visa's overall business.

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MAY 8, 2024

Mortgage REITs are companies that want to borrow money at low, short-term lending rates, and use this capital to purchase higher-yielding long-term assets, such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS). This premier protection allows AGNC to prudently deploy leverage to its advantage. This is how the "mortgage REIT" industry got its name.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Additionally, we are leveraging innovation as a strategic differentiating tool to meet available demand and stay ahead of market trends. On the technology front, Newmar is beginning to leverage advanced 3D product development technology to successfully reduce the time to market for innovative products like its Super C Grand Star.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, we grew our platinum and diamond member base, leveraging unique incentives like exclusive and early access to key events and brand launches, gifting, and personalized offers that drive engagement. Moving to the balance sheet and our capital allocation priorities. Total inventory increased 1.9% billion compared to $2.3

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

As a reminder, we implemented several shrink-mitigating tactics in Q1 and Q2, including upgraded store talent, updated equipment, revised policies, increased leverage of exception reporting to quickly identify issues, and a third-party restitution program. With that, I'll turn the call over to our operator, Melissa, to facilitate questions.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So capital spending is important and likely to remain elevated for the foreseeable future. On top of that, Verizon has more leverage than its closest competitors, which puts it at a spending disadvantage. It followed that up with a $6 billion settlement over product liability regarding earplugs it sold to the U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. Today with Pyro, we get a crystal clear understanding of advances within hours of reviewing the deal tape, which allows us to price the deal quickly and accurately while the seller doesn't need to worry about a tail of liabilities.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

And this allows us to really match our capital expenditure with ultimately our revenue because it only -- we don't have to spend a long time with empty centers because we literally can start small and just fill them up as our customers are consuming. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Oracle.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Since our last report, we have also begun implementation work on both our new enterprisewide POS solution and our new human capital and payroll management system. per share negative impact, primarily from unfavorable general liability insurance claims. We have also launched new mobile apps for both Family Dollar and Dollar Tree.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Leverage decreased modestly for the quarter to 7.2 In addition, the positive investment environment provided a favorable backdrop for the deployment of this new capital. For example, we have raised a lot of capital in the last two quarters. I think we were well positioned from a leverage perspective. per share, or 5%.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2025

Last but not least, we also continued to consistently deliver against our capital allocation priorities. times net leverage ratio on a comparable basis in the third quarter, still slightly below our three times target. We maintained a 2.9 Interest expense remained flat year over year and for the quarter was $104 million. billion to $3.1

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Note that this does not include the cash payments associated with our recently announced settlement, which took place in January 2025, and we did not access the capital markets. We would have seen that in tech and dev if not for some capitalized costs. So, the operating leverage continues to be moving in the right direction.

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