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JULY 30, 2024

We intend to allocate the cash proceeds in a balanced manner with significant portions being used to repay debt and for returning capital to shareholders. Net debt leverage was confirmed at 2.9 times, the lowest level in company history. I think it's been hampered by the conglomerate discount that our company received.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

We delivered 57% growth and 21% EBITDA margin, top percentile of public companies out there. We took the company public with an amazing shareholder base, and we finished the year with a very strong balance sheet, including $168 million of cash and short-term investments with zero debt.

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MAY 9, 2024

In addition to signing new customers, we renewed and expanded with our existing restaurant customers this quarter, including a leading restaurant conglomerate in the U.S., billion of debt, and 246 million of cash. who has been an NCR Voyix customer for more than 20 years. Please turn to Slide 13. We ended the quarter with 3.9

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

And finally, we signed a co-brand agreement with Indian conglomerate, Adani, serving 400 million customers through retail, airports, and online travel services, among others. Interest income from cash will more than offset interest expense from debt by around $30 million in the fourth quarter. range in Q4.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are these all run independently or are they run as part of a big conglomerate or a little bit of each? 00:05:59 [Speaker Changed] So over my two plus decades at the company, the answer is yes and yes, right? And encouraging kids to go into debt was not exactly part of the brand plan, right? Funko Inc is a pop culture company.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: The media conglomerate? textbook company, Houghton Mifflin, back when there were actually textbooks in schools. And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. And we were like, look, we’d be great partners as you’re looking at assets. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They grew a business where they issued junk debt. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that?

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Discovery 's debt-ridden saga, these stories aren't just tales of companies; they are lessons for life and investing. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. Second, Zaslav had discovered take on massive debt to purchase Warner Brothers. Haven't seen it.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2025

Though there are hundreds upon hundreds of public companies that pay a regular dividend, only a select few provide a rock-solid payout and offer a yield that's at least two times the current yield of the S&P 500 (1.24%) -- i.e., "high yield." Image source: Getty Images. However, no two dividend stocks are alike.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 8, 2025

His holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) (NYSE: BRK.A) , is his life's work. Buffett made Berkshire a conglomerate in 1965, and today, it's a $1.1 Visa's leverage equates to a debt-to- EBITDA ratio of just 0.8, and the company has $14 billion in cash and short-term investments. trillion market cap behemoth.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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