The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

The company invested $875 million into growth capital projects during the first quarter. That kept its leverage ratio at 3.0, It aims for leverage of 3.0, Enterprise Products' combination of stable cash flows, strong distribution coverage, and low leverage put its high-yielding distribution on a very firm foundation.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The MLP expects its leverage ratio to end the year at 3 times, down from 3.7 That's much lower than Energy Transfer, which expects its leverage ratio to be toward the lower end of its 4 times to 4.5 The smaller MLP also produces significant free cash flow after capital expenses (nearly $1.2 times at the end of last year.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Dividend payers display a history of positive cash flows, good capital management, and steady growth, making them solid choices for investors. Ares Capital Corporation (9.34% yield) Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) provides financing to middle-market companies that have been neglected by big banks over the past several decades.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We've transformed the company from a tax and accounting platform to an AI-driven expert platform. Starting with our consumer platform, Big Bet 3 is focused on helping customers make smart money decisions, take steps to improve their financial health year round, achieve their best tax outcome, and accelerate the receipt of their refund.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The firm’s quarterly revenue rose 68% year-over-year to $1.1bn, and new capital raised totalled $20.9bn, closely matching Bloomberg Intelligence’s estimate. The firm reported after-tax realised income of $316m, or 95 cents per share, for the third quarter.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter was actually 20.1%, which is higher than my 19% guidance. Even as higher tax rate lowered EPS by $0.02, we still hit the high end of my constant currency guidance. Lastly, my EPS guidance for Q3 assumes a base tax rate of 19%. Absolutely, we did better.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Master limited partnerships (MLPs) have fallen out of favor with investors over the years because of their tax complexities. Instead of sending a 1099-DIV for tax purposes, MLPs send their investors a Schedule K-1, which typically arrives late in the tax filing season. times leverage ratio. times this year. times target.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The sector has gone through a transformation in the past decade, with midstream companies reducing leverage and being more disciplined when it comes to funding growth projects. Even better, the company has said it could pay excess distributions once its leverage is below 3 times and it has excess free cash flow.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

Those entities have some tax complexities, which tend to weigh on their valuations compared to traditional corporations. In addition, some already tax-advantaged accounts (IRAs) don't allow investors to hold partnership units, and many stock market indexes don't allow partnerships. They're both publicly traded limited partnerships.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

Roughly 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) comes from cost-of-service arrangements or long-term contracts. Finally, Enbridge has a strong balance sheet with a conservative leverage ratio. times leverage ratio , well within its 4.5x-5.0x target range. billion-$6.6 billion-$5.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It repaid debt, which steadily drove down its leverage ratio. Today, Energy Transfer has a strong investment-grade balance sheet with a leverage ratio in the lower half of its 4.0-to-4.5x That improving leverage ratio has provided Energy Transfer with increased financial flexibility. times target range.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2024

of the total; real estate tax and ground leases , 1.6%; and other investments, at 3%. Tenants are responsible for all property expenses, including routine maintenance, real estate taxes, and building insurance. That enables it to make accretive acquisitions even at a higher cost of capital. over the past five years.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

As for long-term performance, about 55 ETFs have beaten this Vanguard fund's average returns over the past 10 years without resorting to financial tricks such as leveraged funds. Tax-efficient moves Uncle Sam will want a share of your gains at some point. There are several options on the table.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2024

Enbridge currently gets 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from stable cost-of-service or contracted assets. The company currently boasts an investment-grade credit rating backed by a leverage ratio toward the low end of its 4.5-5.0 times target range. billion). billion-$6.6

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We're very pleased with Enact's operational strength's capital levels and consistent shareholder distributions. life insurance companies reported an estimated pre-tax loss of $18 million, driven by unfavorable mortality and higher new claims, as well as lower benefit from legal settlements. On a statutory accounting basis, the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

We had a total estimated pre-tax statutory loss for our U.S. For the full year, we generated strong statutory pre-tax income of $378 million. Since Enact's IPO, Genworth has received $903 million in capital returns, including $289 million in 2024. Genworth received $84 million in capital returns from Enact in the fourth quarter.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

It's an effective tax planning strategy for stock investors. Donating shares to nonprofit organizations will provide two tax benefits. First, you get to deduct the value of the shares you donate as a charitable contribution on your taxes. What the organizations do with the shares is out of his control.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

Amidst a dynamic macroeconomic landscape, we capitalized on our robust network effects and unparalleled transaction efficiency to further supplant traditional off-line logistics transaction models, accelerating our growth flywheel. These tax-related costs net of refunds totaled RMB 1,278.5 billion representing an increase of 25.9%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our third quarter performance reflects continued positive momentum in growing our businesses, increasing capital efficiency, and pivoting our product suite to address the investing, insurance and retirement needs of our customers and clients around the world. Our strategic progress and performance are backed by our financial strength.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2024

Buffett's reason for selling focuses on the favorable tax laws American corporations currently benefit from. He expects taxes to go up in the future. Since Berkshire's sitting on a substantial capital gain from its Apple investment, he decided to take some money off the table and pay taxes now instead of waiting until later.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

These features make it an excellent investment option for those desiring income and who are comfortable with receiving a Schedule K-1 federal tax form that MLPs like Enterprise send to their investors each year. billion in capital investments over the past year and $200 million in unit repurchases. It has made $4.1 It has a low 3.0

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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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. KMI Financial Debt to EBITDA (TTM) data by YCharts That said, a part of the problem was Kinder Morgan's more aggressive use of leverage than its peers'.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

That lease structure requires tenants to cover all of a property's operating costs, including routine maintenance, real estate taxes, and building insurance. leased to growing retailers that need capital to fund their continued expansion. NNN REIT has a slightly lower dividend payout ratio and leverage ratio. Realty Income 5.6%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 11, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 Enterprise ended the quarter with leverage of 3x. It defines leverage as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. cents per unit. billion and $3.75

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2024

Meanwhile, its balance sheet is in good shape with a leverage ratio (net debt/adjusted EBITDA ) of just 3.2 It is planning to spend $950 million in growth capital expenditure (capex) this year. The stock sports an attractive 8% yield based on its most recent distribution and had a robust 1.6

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, its 3 times leverage ratio , the lowest in the midstream sector, is in the top three-quarters of the group. billion in both 2024 and 2025 on growth-capital projects, a level it can easily fund with excess free cash and its balance-sheet capacity. billion of major capital projects). of its cash flow from operations).

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The new collaboration will enable Enbridge to leverage AI powered by Microsoft Azure machine learning across its operations. million) of recurring earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) savings per year. The company aims to achieve 200 million Canadian dollars to CA$300 million ($146.6 million-$219.9

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For example, Enterprise delivered a double-digit return on invested capital (ROIC) in every year since 2005. Its balance sheet is strong, with a leverage ratio of 3x and solid A- and A3 credit ratings. That means it issues K-1 tax forms, which make tax preparation more complicated.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Companies like Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE: ADM) , Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) , and Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ: RPRX) are raising their payouts rapidly. For decades, ADM has leveraged its enormous global asset base to originate, process, and transport agricultural commodities between over 190 countries. The stock offers a 3.4%

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