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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Shares currently trade for an enterprise value/earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EV/ EBITDA ) multiple of just 5x. While Chevron shares have climbed about 2% since the start of the year, Occidental is down about 3.5%. Moreover, the valuation for Occidental is extremely attractive.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Food conglomerate Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) is a rare example of his investments gone bust. times its net debt (total debt minus cash) versus its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). The stock price is down over 60% from a high over six years ago. Is it perfect yet?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Symbiotic also recently partnered with SoftBank (OTC: SFTB.Y) , the Japanese conglomerate that owned the SPAC that it merged with, to launch a new warehouse-as-a-service joint venture called GreenBox, which will exclusively purchase its automation systems from Symbiotic through a $7.5 billion contract.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

The Singapore-based tech conglomerate delivered two consecutive quarters of profitability in all three of its business segments. Fortunately, the effort worked, and Shopee turned profitable in the fourth quarter of 2022 with positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA) of $196 million.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As part of a vast industrial conglomerate encompassing elevators, defense, and aerospace products, Carrier couldn't be as agile in the rapidly changing heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) industry as it might want to be. But it is still beating the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite this year.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Six of them are technology businesses, with the outlier being energy conglomerate Saudi Arabian Oil, also called Saudi Aramco. Perhaps even more encouraging, Uber's mobility business improved its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) by 50% to $5 billion last year.

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JULY 14, 2024

Sea Limited (current market cap of $42 billion) The third supercharged growth stock that has the necessary catalysts to become a trillion-dollar company by the start of the 2040s is Singapore-based conglomerate Sea Limited (NYSE: SE). Free Fire remains one of the world's most-popular mobile games, with 8.2%

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The activist firm Elliott Investment Management has written to Honeywell International 's (NASDAQ: HON) board of directors arguing for the conglomerate's breakup. Elliott believes "Honeywell's conglomerate model has contributed to this underperformance." over the previous three years compared to a 27% increase in the S&P 500 index.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Angi's management maintains that it will earn at least $100 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in 2023. Conglomerate IAC holds 98% of the voting power for Angi, and Levin is CEO of both companies. ANGI Operating Margin (TTM) data by YCharts.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The technology conglomerate's share price was down 15.8% Additionally, it now expects non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to be between $80 million and $84 million, while it had previously guided for adjusted EBITDA between $77 million and $83 million.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Honeywell in 2023 The company is an industrial conglomerate , and it's doing what one should do. As such, the so-called industrial conglomerate discount doesn't apply here. Does that make the stock a buy now? It shows a stock trading toward the high end of its peer group.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Archer struck a deal with travel conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises in November to build an all-electric air taxi service across India by 2026. where it's helping state governments bolster their budgets by increasing their tax revenue. It has a contract with the U.S. International markets also beckon.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Headline numbers going in different directions Fluor's fourth quarter of that year saw the engineering and construction conglomerate earn $4.26 Management believes the company will post earnings before, interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) of $575 million to $675 million. per share).

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JULY 14, 2024

At the end of the first quarter, AT&T's net debt was down to $129 billion, and it's on schedule to reach a reasonable net debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) in the 2.5x range by the first half of 2025. This strategy is paying off.

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MAY 11, 2024

XPO had become too complex to be valued appropriately, and then-CEO Brad Jacobs argued that the stock was undervalued due to a conglomerate discount. As you can see from the chart below, both revenue and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) have risen solidly since then.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Once a gem within Singapore tech conglomerate Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) , Garena has fallen from grace as revenue and profitability declined massively over the last few quarters. It didn't help that this game development business had to temporarily halt its operations of Freefire apps in India due to a regulatory ban.

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JUNE 18, 2023

The company is nearly two years old now, spun off from XPO Logistics in August 2021 to streamline both businesses so the market could value them accordingly, rather than as a combined conglomerate. billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). It's also targeting $1.6

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

In 2019, the massive industrial conglomerate DowDuPont split off into three companies. EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Dow (NYSE: DOW) focuses on commodity chemicals, DuPont de Nemours mostly deals with specialty chemicals, and Corteva is an agriculture chemical and seed company.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

But Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) On that note, Sirius' Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) margins have consistently ranged between 29% and 33% on a quarterly basis, which is pretty high, over the past five years.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Another quarter of expanding margins As Baidu's sales growth accelerated, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin expanded three percentage points year over year and one percentage point sequentially to 27% in the second quarter. and Baidu wasn't one of them!

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JUNE 14, 2023

The healthcare conglomerate sells pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices. times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), virtually ensure that shareholders will continue cashing those quarterly checks for years to come. The stock offers a solid 2.5%

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APRIL 30, 2024

Looking a little closer at the cost side of the business, operating expenses before depreciation and amortization, interest and taxes increased $15.8 million, net associated with higher rates and increased borrowings related to our debt refinancing in May 2023 as well as lower tax expense of $1.3 million, down $5.6

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It also brings with it the power of Disney, the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate. In short, it will further solidify our position as the leader in expedition cruise and experiential adventure in travel, a segment we have been leading for more than 50 years. Turning to the balance sheet. million.

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APRIL 12, 2025

Warren Buffett is the long-time CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). Not only does Berkshire Hathaway have a portfolio of publicly traded stocks, but the conglomerate also fully owns nearly 200 controlled businesses. Image source: Getty Images. Data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

Nonetheless, the trustees have worked to maintain a substantial stake in the conglomerate by selling off other assets. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) grew 11% in the third quarter on the back of record profit margins. Much of Berkshire's value is tied to its massive investment portfolio.

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MARCH 15, 2025

Once the most dominant business within Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) , Garena has fallen behind the limelight of its younger sister company, Shopee, as the latter became the most significant revenue contributor to the Singapore-based conglomerate. Yet, Garena remains important to Sea's overall long-term strategic direction.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) , an entertainment conglomerate known for its significant media and streaming assets, released its fourth-quarter results on February 27, 2025. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) improved year-over-year by 10.2% Warner Bros. by a substantial gap of $0.18.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

billion, up 12%, driven by strong cloud billings and collections, partially offset by higher supplier employee and tax payments. Our effective tax rate was approximately 19%. And lastly, we expect our Q2 effective tax rate to be approximately 19%. We're not a conglomerate here. Cash flow from operations was $34.2

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MARCH 11, 2025

He noted that he doesn't use earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), referring to the financial metric as "a flawed favorite of Wall Street." This divergent take on EBITDA reflects just the tip of the iceberg of what could be described as diametrically different perspectives.

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