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Resale company Winmark is a franchisor that owns concepts including Plato's Closet, Play It Again Sports, and Once Upon a Child. How Heffes thinks about capital allocation. Jim Gillies: I want to go in a capital allocation direction if that's OK. So, investors may want to pay attention to it. Building an everlasting business.
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Focusing on these priorities will allow us to achieve our financial objectives, maintaining our solid investment-grade credit rating, investing back into the business, and delivering on our capital allocation priorities, including buybacks. The board and I are fully aligned on our capital allocation strategy. sequentially.
The shortfall was due to a combination of a smaller benefit from working capital and higher-than-anticipated cash tax levels. Depreciation and amortization was flat year to year as a percent of revenue, down $17 million, reflecting continued capital discipline. Turning to capital deployment. SG&A was 8.7%
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We continue to focus on capital efficiency to produce consistent, strong homebuilding operating cash flows and returns. Our capital efficient and flexible lot portfolio is a key to our strong competitive position. Forestar had approximately $800 million of liquidity at quarter end with a net debt to capital ratio of 16.4%.
billion, and we returned all of the cash we generated this year to shareholders through repurchases and dividends. We remain focused on enhancing the capital efficiency of all of our operations to produce consistent, sustainable returns and cash flows so that we can return more capital to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends.
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billion plus or minus of net cash flow over the next year, we have the flexibility to invest capital strategically and growth while retiring debt as it matures and repurchasing shares of Lennar stock, which we expect to repurchase at least $2 billion of stock over the next year. We're targeting a total capital allocation of at least 2.5
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And finally, Q1 industrial resales of $215 million declined 6% year on year. In fiscal '24, we continue to expand industrial resales to be down high single digits year upon year. We spent $122 million on capital expenditures. Turning to capital allocation. Free cash flow in the quarter was $4.7
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As our shareholders know well, we announced Vision 2025 in July of 2022 in response to one of the most abrupt and significant contractions in housing and mortgage volumes in a generation. Jeff DerGurahian -- Chief Capital Markets Officer Hey, Doug, this is Jeff DerGurahian. Would that be through more retention of it?
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We expect our housing inventory turns to improve in fiscal 2024 compared to fiscal 2023 and our ongoing focus on capital efficiency to produce strong homebuilding operating cash flows and consistent returns. Our capital-efficient and flexible lot portfolio is the key to our strong competitive position. billion, up 3% sequentially.
billion in cash to our shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks. Industrial resales were 962 million. In fiscal '24, we expect industrial resales to be down low single digits year on year. We spent 105 million on capital expenditures. Now, turning to capital allocation. billion, or 49% of revenue.
At this time, I'll turn the call over to Joshua Fattor, executive vice president of investor relations and capital markets. Given when we acquired these communities, the capital invested in their development, and the rising cost of replacement projects, their inherent value is substantial. You may begin. million or 12.8% of revenue.
More importantly, we are just beginning to implement drilling unit design and operational changes that we expect will create substantial value in the Callon acreage via improved well performance and capital efficiency. Egypt also had a very good quarter and is beginning to deliver significant capital efficiency improvements.
During the spring selling season with a healthy supply of move-in ready inventory, we were able to capitalize on strong market conditions generated by the increasing need for housing for millennials and Gen Zs as well as the move-down Baby Boomers who continue to find our limited inventory, limited availability of resale housing supply.
As we previously discussed, two of the largest population cohorts, the millennials and recently Gen Zs are having life events lean to increased levels of need-based housing that currently cannot be met by the constrained resale of home supply in the market. times, reflecting impressive growth in shareholder value. times to 1.4
We significantly reduced working capital by a total of about $600 million on a sequential quarterly basis, and this includes the benefit from a partial reduction of our inventory levels. In a variety of cases, we also simplified and improved our product offering, allowing us to reduce complexity and drive down working capital.
We are focused on consolidating market share by supplying more homes to meet homebuyer demand, while maximizing the returns and capital efficiency each of -- in each of our communities. Our capital-efficient and flexible lot portfolio is a key to our strong competitive position. Forestar is separately capitalized from D.R.
and Egypt, a reduction in year-over-year per unit LOE and G&A costs, working capital improvements in Egypt, and the appraisal of Krabdagu in Suriname. APA remains committed to returning at least 60% of our free cash flow this calendar year to shareholders. We are also reducing our full-year LOE outlook from $1.5 billion to $1.4
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It certainly seems a little bit more shareholder-friendly, whereas, you know what, Redstone may be pursuing, this is totally understandable, but it seems to be more tilted toward her self-interests or her family's self interests. It's because there's just not that much resale activity. That's about double of what it is traditionally.
As Keith will review, we intend to continue to operate and deploy capital with discipline, focused on delivering long-term sustainable profitable growth that should create value for all of our stakeholders. Plus, we're primed to capitalize on the category rebound as soon as it happens and in more real time than our peers.
And lastly, the resale home market remains tight as existing buyers are hesitant to leave their low rate mortgages, which limits available inventory and helps to increase new home demand. We strive to balance growth in the business with returning cash to shareholders. We had nothing drawn under our credit facility, cash of $1.2
Turning to capital. In 2023, we now expect total capital expenditures to be approximately $1.2 We remain dedicated to our disciplined approach to capital allocation as we are funding our growth objectives, while continuing to drive meaningful shareholder returns. Jon Atkin -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst Thank you.
I'm thrilled to be here and look forward to working with all our shareholders and covering analysts going forward. Ultimately, our North Star is to use our depth of inventory to create better outcomes for sellers, buyers and our agents, which, as a function, should translate to better outcomes for Compass and our shareholders.
million annual resale transactions in time. Free cash flow during the fourth quarter was negative 41 million, which compares favorably to negative $131 million of free cash flow in the year-ago quarter driven primarily by the improvement in adjusted EBITDA, lower capital expenditures, and other favorable changes in working capital.
This includes a $60 million outlook for capital expenditures, which is consistent with our previous outlook. And coupled with the recent changes to our credit facility, we believe this will provide additional flexibility as we look to drive future shareholder value. Obviously, some of the product resale affected mix this year.
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