The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. Finally, we did an outstanding job generating positive operating leverage, with expenses up only $6 million sequentially, despite our rapid growth. On a year-over-year basis, the portfolio is up 33%. We run them.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The company also agreed to have these notes secured by a 49% stake in New Fortress' Brazil operations, giving creditors more collateral than they had prior. When compared with the company's $7 billion-plus in net debt, that's still a high leverage ratio. Then today, the company priced a public offering of its shares, selling 46.3

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Annaly is not your typical REIT As a real estate investment trust (REIT), Annaly is required to pass at least 90% of its income on to shareholders. Technically, mortgage REITs like Annaly usually buy bond-like securities that represent a pooled collection of mortgages, often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO).

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2023

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) is offering shareholders a nearly 14% dividend yield. In the case of AGNC, it owns mortgages that have been pooled together into tradable securities often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO). That leverage is often backed by the value of the CMO portfolio it owns.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The caveat here is that shareholders have to count the dividends as regular income. Rather, it buys mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like securities, sometimes called collateralized mortgage obligations or something similar. Still, the sector tends to offer very generous dividend yields to investors.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In fact, REITs avoid corporate-level taxation as long as they pass at least 90% of their taxable income on to shareholders via dividends. So it makes complete sense that dividends are a big piece of the way Annaly Capital provides returns to shareholders. Dividends from REITs are taxed at an investor's regular income tax rate.)

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

As a result, existing shareholders' ownership stakes in the company have decreased as more shares became available. Previously in 2022, when the company claimed to have 115,000 Bitcoin "unencumbered" by loans, Saylor acknowledged that if the price fell below $3,562, then MicroStrategy would run out of Bitcoin to use as collateral.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Blackstone focuses on alternative investments in real estate, private equity, hedge fund products, and credit products such as collateralized loan obligations. Blackstone utilizes its expertise to take nontraditional approaches to investing in less-liquid asset classes and can also use leverage to boost returns.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

Most dividend-focused investors should probably own a few, given that they are specifically designed to pass income on to shareholders. As if to make things even more complicated, mortgage REITs usually use leverage, with their portfolios acting as collateral, to try to enhance returns. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

I think that this ought to produce excellent returns for our shareholders over time. Net income to common shareholders was $1.3 The comprehensive income to shareholders in the first half of both 2024 and 2023 was $1.2 Also, we recognized losses on our discontinued intellectual property collateral protection insurance product.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Economic leverage ticked down slightly to 5.7 And within these coupons, only a small fraction of our pools are backed by generic collateral and approximately 70% have what we would characterize as high-quality prepayment protection and the benefits of our collateral selection were best seen in the latest prepayment report.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And we achieved these results with lower economic leverage, which declined to 5.7 And these securitizations generated $290 million of assets at projected mid-teens returns utilizing modest recourse leverage. We were well-positioned to take advantage of this environment, delivering a 10.1% turns at the end of the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

But in regards to selling those assets -- I mean, we always analyze different options in order to maximize shareholder value, but the business as a whole is performing well and generating cash. So, you have been able to access the volume from other players, and the collateral is working well as of now? Yeah, that was clear.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our plan to source corporate growth capital is first from retained CAFD; second, with access corporate debt capacity in line with our target BB rating; and third, we may lead to issue external equity to fund investments to the extent such investment would be sufficiently accretive to shareholders. We also recognize that we had $2.1

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MicroStrategy is well positioned to gain competitive leverage in winning both of these areas of growth. Much like we have done with cloud hyperscalers, we plan to openly partner with and leverage the technology investments in these companies. Rather than invest heavily to build our own models.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I guess the real question is around timing and how you see your ability to free up some of that restricted cash and start to bring on some of those closed one or more of those deals that you're talking about in the shareholder letter? As we get volume leverage, you get supply chain leverage, you drive greater automation.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

We remain focused on driving profitable growth for shareholders as we work to maximize EPS and free cash flow per share in 2024 and the years to come. For the Q&A session, we'll start by answering the top few shareholder questions from Say Technologies ranked by a number of votes. Now, I'll turn the call back to Vlad.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

We maintained our disciplined approach to capital deployment by investing in the growth of our businesses and returning excess capital to shareholders. Our disciplined approach to capital deployment supported investments in our businesses while returning over $700 million to shareholders during the quarter. Turning to Slide 3.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

million customers and generated $305 million in pre-tax servicing income, thanks to continued strong operating leverage. And meanwhile, we continue to deliver very strong operating leverage. This platform is one example of how we leverage those 16 petabytes of data. We grew the servicing portfolio to $1.2

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

On the earnings front, BJ did a nice job talking about the solid results this quarter, and we really believe we're setting a new baseline for performance in the future with confidence in our margin, secondary, and a focus on expense control that will generate operating leverage, so profitability. It is collateralized.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

The sale of Eastern Insurance monetized and undervalued assets for our shareholders and created a significant gain and capital increase. We look forward to analyzing share repurchases, along with our other capital management tools and we'll continue to look for additional opportunities to create shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Prismic will enhance our mutually reinforcing business system and drive future growth by leveraging our differentiated brands, global asset and liability origination capabilities, and multichannel distribution. In the fourth quarter, we returned over $700 million of capital to shareholders. Our cash and liquid assets were $4.1

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

In fact, you couldn't ask for a better demonstration of operating leverage. We reported pre-tax income of $288 million, up 58% year over year, reflecting the benefits of growth in operating leverage, while CPR speeds came in slightly below expectations. These results reflect strong growth, with the portfolio ending the quarter at $1.2

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2024

And is there maybe a pull-forward of some expenses from next year in order to position you for improved positive operating leverage? So, it's important when you consider all this, our revenue and expense, that we are firmly committed to generating positive operating leverage over the back half of 2024. Five of those are office related.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

In our keynote address, we highlighted how some of the biggest brands in the world, including organizations like Hilton Hotels, Amica Insurance, and Sony Interactive Entertainment leverage the power and unified capabilities of MicroStrategy to transform how they operate and succeed amid fierce competition. On Slide 22.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

Earnings available for distribution exceeded our dividend by $0.03, demonstrating our ability to consistently earn strong returns with prudent leverage, which stood at 5.8 And consistent with prior quarters, we favored high-quality prepayment-protected collateral with durable cash flows. return for the first half of the year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

in CAFD per share for our shareholders. in CAFD per share and the framework we will employ to assure that investments we make are accretive to shareholders based on the plans we make to fund it. Finally, we have begun to define the road map for growth beyond 2026 and CWEN shareholder value accretion in the years ahead.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Our ability to manage through this volatility is attributable to our diversified capital allocation, prudent hedge portfolio, and responsible leverage position. And even with the reduction in leverage from 6.4 And then MSR, unlevered, around 10%, 11%, with the turn of leverage gets you to 15%. times to 5.8 So still healthy.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

And I would add there's a lot of excitement internally about the potential for creating shareholder value as we continue to execute our plan and demonstrate to the market a sustained, higher return on equity profile. The primary driver of incremental returns in the future will likely be profitability rather than leverage.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

Despite the market challenges Willy just outlined, our team delivered for our clients and our business delivered growth in adjusted EBITDA and adjusted core EPS for our shareholders. per share yesterday, payable to shareholders of record as of May 16, consistent with last quarter's dividend. million investment banking transaction.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

AUGUST 16, 2024

In conjunction with this acquisition, funds affiliated with existing majority shareholder Hellman & Friedman (“H&F”) will make a meaningful incremental equity investment in AutoScout24. The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca , AutoHebdo.net , LesPac.com, AutoSync , Dealertrack and Collateral Management Solutions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

Our press release and the shareholder letter were issued earlier today and are posted on the Investor Relations section of our website. A reconciliation of GAAP non-GAAP results other than with respect to our non-GAAP financial outlook is provided in today's press release and in our shareholder letter. I'll elaborate on this later.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

I know our shareholders want to own a company they can count on for profitability and growth with strong ethics, values, and integrity. This resulted in a net leverage ratio of approximately 2.8 At the same time, we are funding high-return projects for the benefit of our customers and shareholders. Debt, net of our $1.2

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 7, 2023

They’re talking about asset management firms, in which public pension funds often have investments, supporting shareholder proposals meant to achieve social justice or climate objectives yet of dubious financial value. Nor is it supported by the empirical evidence. It is a myth,” corporate governance experts David F.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 2024

C3 AI and Microsoft will create joint webinar sales collateral to train the Microsoft and C3 AI sales forces on our joint offering solutions and value propositions. Partnering with Microsoft allows C3 AI to leverage its unparalleled reach, robust cloud capabilities and trusted reputation in the market.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

This playbook leverages our know-how and capabilities to support our customers globally and doing so in the right way. Total shareholder distributions in the quarter were $122 million, including $100 million of share repurchases. For TechnipFMC, it's not about building capacity and growing headcount. Every day is a challenge.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Our ability to leverage these insights and deliver optimized financing solutions and experiences for our customers and partners even as needs evolve and market conditions shift is what enables Synchrony to consistently deliver the outcomes that matter most for our many stakeholders and increasingly positions us as the partner of choice.

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