The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Because MLPs have large depreciation expenses and other tax deductions, a portion of the distribution (around 10% to 20%, which can vary depending on various factors) is considered taxable income. Investors should be aware of this difference in tax treatment and consider consulting a tax advisor come tax time.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We expect to be able to leverage the A&D investments happening today at SkyWater to support numerous commercial use cases that require reliable CMOS performance and applications, like advanced computing and medical diagnostics, which are our next two fastest-growing end markets. I will now turn the call over to Steve.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

In its fourth-quarter report , IBM noted that from the third to the fourth quarters, it nearly doubled its book of business (which the company defines as revenue, software-as-a-service contract revenue, and consulting signings) for generative AI and the Watsonx data and AI platform. Microsoft is straightforwardly leveraging AI.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Our AWS customers are also quite excited about leveraging GenAI to change the customer experiences and businesses. And today, we announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development and leveraging company's internal data. Worldwide operating income was $15.3

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Enterprise and individual developers have swiftly transitioned from the fear of missing out on this opportunity to leveraging foundation models like ERNIE to build AI applications. Leveraging our technical expertise, we can now integrate GPUs from various vendors into a unified computing cluster to train an LLM. and ERNIE 4.0.,

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

By leveraging ERNIE Speed and our ModelBuilder, we helped a healthcare automation solution provider to train and finetune an industry-specific model that enables automatically generated medical records for doctors. And since then, we kept leveraging our self-developed four-layer AI architecture for model upgrade.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

Reflecting on the significant improvements in SkyWater's operational execution and financial performance over the past four quarters, we are demonstrating important progress toward achieving the strong revenue growth and operational leverage objectives communicated since our IPO a little over two years ago.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2024

percentage points sequentially to 41.6%, slightly ahead of our guidance, mainly due to operating leverage on higher revenue. Next, let me talk about our 2024 capital budget and depreciation. Our depreciation expense is expected to increase close to 30% year over year in 2024, mainly as we ramp up our 3-nanometer technologies.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2023

Our continued focus on managing what is in our control drove another quarter of sequential improvement in year-over-year performance across key financial metrics, including unit sales, SG&A leverage, gross profit, and EPS. Excluding the benefit from the settlement, our SG&A leverage was 76%, roughly flat to last year's first quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Continuing with GBS, we're bringing together the best capabilities of our Analytics and Engineering and Applications business, now called Consulting and Engineering Services, with industry veteran Howard Boville as our general manager. Now, we do have operating leverage with working capital. Moving on to security. SG&A was 8.7%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

We continue to see firsthand the power of Project Matterhorn from our commercial teams who are successfully leveraging our full suite of products and solutions to help position Iron Mountain has an ideal partner to our customers. With strong EBITDA performance, we ended the quarter with net lease adjusted leverage of 5.0

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This rebranding allows us to leverage marketing investments and capitalize on the strength of the Spartan brand name. The year-over-year increase was largely due to net sales leverage, productivity improvements and net price realization, primarily driven by lower floor plant costs. Residential segment earnings for the quarter were $32.6

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

This growth was supported by a net sales increase of 5% at an enterprise level and solid operating leverage that resulted in an increase of 7% in comparable operating income, representing an enterprise-comparable operating margin of nearly 33%. billion in operating cash flow, and we're able to reduce our net leverage ratio by nearly 0.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

Additionally, we have been leveraging generative AI to enhance our auction system so that it can better match app to search queries and search intent. Meanwhile, we will continue to leverage ERNIE and ERNIE Bot to help advertisers create sophisticated end campaigns and improve ROI on Baidu. Baidu Core's cost of revenue was RMB 10.6

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

These capabilities are driving guest engagement and enhanced accessibility that have also resulted in execution challenges, particularly in product transitions and launches as we leverage new tools and processes. We expect depreciation for the year will be between $290 million and $300 million. For example, brand building.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

These were partially offset by higher depreciation and higher amortization of cloud computing arrangement costs. Franchisees strong restaurant EBITDA performance in 2023 supported an improvement in balance sheet health with lease-adjusted leverage ratios improving year over year. and 25% in Canada. It's our Biggie platform.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

Secondly, in line with our consistent, disciplined, and balanced approach to capital allocation, we executed $215 million of share repurchases in Q3 while maintaining our net leverage ratio, excluding Canopy equity and earnings, unchanged from last quarter at 3.2 last year.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

This industry-leading machine, which leverages 30 existing and pending patents, is the world's most powerful all-terrain horizontal directional drill. The year-over-year increase was largely due to net sales leverage and productivity improvements. The AT120 enables productivity, while at the same time, reducing job site noise.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The capability and infrastructure additions that came from pandemic-era investments give us a foundation for exceptional operating leverage going forward. They act not only as product suppliers, but technical experts who consult and help customers through their development and scale-up challenges. Maravai 3.0 per share to a $0.06

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

million in the second quarter of 2022Now that is nearly a $3 million increase in revenue at a 68% gross margin, which includes the depreciation expense, and importantly, our network fees, which are recurring in nature, increased by an impressive 253% to 1.7 There's definitely leverage in there. million compared to 1.5

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In terms of future harvesting, the third quarter marked the highest amount of overall fund depreciation in three years. And then, if we think about the embedded FRE growth through 2025, how should we think about how that operating leverage could drive margin expansion next year? How much is driven by placement fees? Operator Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Included in adjusted gross profit is a one-time favorable noncash adjustment to depreciation expense worth approximately $9.5 That was depreciation expense, so that would not be part of EBITDA. Consistent with the prior year, the decrease in gross profit is largely associated with the NuVasive merger, namely step-up amortization.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

This decreases our reliance on third-party consultants and builds our internal expertise to manage these systems going forward. We also look forward to leveraging the multi-temp distribution center to access more opportunistic products that can benefit both Grocery Outlet and UGO stores. SG&A expense increased 13.3%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So the outlook, any volume will bring that leverage right back, but also part of the reason why we're taking these self-help actions. And does it have any change to your amortization or depreciation or anything like that? So yes, those two are down and any uptick there gives us some nice leverage. That was all index pricing.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

million at the end of the third quarter with net leverage of about 1.5x. For fiscal 2025, we will have increased capital expenditures due to a higher number of organic new store openings and supply chain investments, and as a result, higher depreciation and amortization. We ended the quarter with $68.7 million of cash.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We also recorded a significant charge representing accelerated depreciation expense on certain fixed assets determined to be non-core to our strategic priorities within the foreseeable horizon, but for which no recovery or sale value could be reasonably expected. Moving down the P&L, total other income net of $5.7

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I have known Ramesh for a number of years, and he is familiar with our business through previous consulting work. We also leveraged gross profit by 76 basis points and grew adjusted EBITDA by 18%. million at the end of the fourth quarter with net leverage less than one times adjusted EBITDA. Now, let's turn to the acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 30, 2023

for the quarter, a 15 million or 18% increase in SG&A expense, which was primarily the result of increased legal costs, and an $11 million or 16% increase in depreciation, almost entirely associated with our brewery capacity investments. We ended the quarter with a net leverage ratio of approximately 3.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We are leveraging automation and executing thorough reviews of our usage to improve efficiency while simultaneously improving our uptime, security, and performance. We also continue to be mindful of hiring, as well as costs associated with head count such as travel and reducing our usage of contractors and consultants.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

We are in a strong financial position, ending the year with a net leverage ratio of 1.6 Additionally, a headwind to gross profit and EPS, but not EBITDA, is that depreciation is up approximately 15% relative to 2023 due to tooling associated with the launch of new products introduced last year. I think the rest of the pieces play out.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

On a pro forma basis, NuVasive gross profit of 58% in September 2023 compared to 62% in the prior year month reflected primarily of higher depreciation expenses and operational spending. We will leverage the talent of both organizations and remain committed to global surgeon education and research. million or 58% in the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

The increase in total SG&A dollars is directly a result of the NuVasive merger, partially offset by cost actions taken as well as fixed cost leverage on spending. Really, as I look at this, it's really more cost control around third-party spending, consulting spending and things like that. million or 37.8% million or 41.2%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within each of these markets, we see significant opportunities that can leverage our know-how and core technology that have been developed over the last 25-plus years of Vuzix. The decrease is largely due to a reduction in external development expenses and consultants related to new products. Research and development expense was $2.8

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. But I, I think this extreme leverage is not as prevalent as it once was.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 17, 2023

On some assets, we’ve already reduced the value significantly over the past few years (such as shopping centres and offices), so I believe most of the depreciation linked to structural changes is behind us.” For more information, visit cdpq.com , consult our LinkedIn or Instagram pages, or follow us on X.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

We are leveraging AI to automatically classify data and enforce policies for better data loss prevention. We closed several deals for our AI Cloud solutions, including Risk360 and Business Insights, with customers across multiple verticals, including broadcasting, consulting, insurance, and many more. It makes a big difference.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 20, 2023

There is no imminent danger of the American shopping mall going extinct, but it’s certainly endangered, down from 2,500 at peak mall to around 600 today, according to Nick Egelanian, president of retail consultancy SiteWorks. He believes maybe 150 will survive the next decade.

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