The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The continued positive momentum across our platform during 2023 allowed us to deliver significantly increased value to our shareholders, with a 25% increase in the total dividends paid to our shareholders in 2023. Despite this significant increase, our DNII still exceeded the total dividends paid to our shareholders by over 17%.

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Axial

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The conversation also examines Garden City’s investment thesis, focusing on B2B nationwide services and how Michael’s team is bringing mission-aligned shareholders into the fold. The importance of mission-aligned shareholders and building trust-based relationships.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

Importantly and atypically, over half of our Q1 debt brokerage deal flow was on non-multifamily assets in retail, hospitality, industrial, and office. 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.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 1, 2024

How satisfied should Meta shareholders be with this is the first prototype product? How are you grading the revitalization plan in the latest shareholder update? At today's price, that would be, I think more than 83 million shares, ultimately, which would be very significant for the business and for shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

These are really exciting times for us, our shareholders, and our LPs. Our mission is to continue to do this very same thing we've done for the past 10 years, drive value for shareholders and LPs with teens-type returns. billion of dividends to shareholders, and we currently manage a $34 billion balance sheet. per diluted share.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. On our earnings calls earlier this year, we discussed with our shareholders our visibility to a strong pipeline. We are better positioned than ever to serve our clients and to deliver growth for our shareholders in the years to come.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

You know, as a company, it's really nice to be in control of your own destiny, you know, knowing that if you -- your focus, hard work, and determination will result in significantly improved outcome for our shareholders. I also want to express my appreciation to our long-term shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

These increased earnings translated into an attractive return on equity of 12.7%, in addition to growing distribution for our shareholders. The business is generating record earnings, and we continue to share those earnings with our shareholders. increase to our regular dividend, increasing the fourth quarter regular dividend to $0.35

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Our conversion rate of deals approved by our investment committee to letters of intent signed is the highest in over two years at approximately 38%. Simultaneously, we have ramped up our efforts and leveraged our tenant relationships, exemplifying how we create proprietary deal flow and accretive off-market opportunities.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Earlier today, we published a shareholder letter and press release with our financial results and commentary for our first quarter of fiscal year 2025. As always, our shareholder letter contains management's insight and commentary for the quarter. And I would just point out, deal timing was not a factor in Q1 as it was in Q4.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

Operator instructions] At this time, I'd like to turn the conference over to Weston Tucker, head of shareholder relations. Weston Tucker -- Head of Shareholder Relations Thanks, Katie, and good morning, and welcome to Blackstone's first-quarter conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. Please go ahead.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Operator instructions] At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Weston Tucker, head of shareholder relations. Weston Tucker -- Head of Shareholder Relations Great. We've done that while also returning 100% of earnings to shareholders over this period through dividends and share repurchases totaling over $30 billion.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

We reported net income to common shareholders of $1.2 billion for the first half of 2023, compared to a net loss to common shareholders of $986 million in the same period a year ago, with the change largely attributed to the year-over-year swing in our public equity portfolio valuation. Turning to cash flows.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This robust growth has allowed us to return significant capital to our shareholders. Since our listing in May of 2021, total return for our shareholders has been over 60%. We intend to launch a strategy focused on triple net lease in Europe, driven by deal flow we already see today. per quarter.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

A new survey of investors and deal advisers conducted by Private Equity Wire found high asset prices were the number one challenge when considering tech firms. The take-private deal has since run into troubled waters. Kaskela Law announced that it is investigating Qualtrics International Inc.

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Technology ranked 4th in deal flow but had the highest average pursuit rate, 8.76%, of all sectors. See below for the full Q3 deal activity overview on the Axial platform, and for a more detailed breakdown by industry, check out The SMB M&A Pipeline: Q3 2023. .”

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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 the GAAP and non-GAAP results is provided in today's press release and in our shareholder letter. With us today are Tomer Weingarten, CEO; and Dave Bernhardt, CFO.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our strong cash flow performance enabled us to execute a balanced capital allocation strategy, deploying nearly $1 billion of capital in 2023 with a focus on investing for growth, while returning cash to shareholders through a growing dividend and share repurchases. There's still good deal flow out there.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a shareholder, I feel that along with everyone else who owns shares, but this is a company I have owned for many years and will gladly continue hanging on to. As a shareholder, I was happy to see what they put out there. Some big moves up, some big market reactions down. Jason Moser: Yes, big sell-off is as we saw.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Importantly, free cash flow again exceeded SPC and is a reflection of our discipline in meaningfully reducing stock-based compensation while significantly growing free cash flow. We will continue to invite a balanced and disciplined approach to returning cash to shareholders through both debt repayment and share repurchase.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

billion in capital to our common shareholders, and that includes $500 million through share buyback. billion of net income to common shareholders, which added 27 basis points. And our investment bank and commercial bank are going to be closely coordinated to harvest the deal flow around the world. First, we generated $3.1

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Axial

JUNE 6, 2023

What changed all of a sudden?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

And of course, we also continue to return capital via the dividend to shareholders. So, it's really -- it's basically about the deal flow if you really put it in business terms. Last year, we acquired 10K, which was a smaller inorganic acquisition. As Robert said, it's our job to survey the market.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Argonaut looks to partner with management teams to improve operations, implement best practices and generate shareholder value. The firm offers flexible capital solutions, from debt to equity, for a wide-range of corporate and shareholder uses. VSS invests in businesses that are well-positioned for sustainable growth.

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SuperAngel.Fund

MARCH 24, 2023

As my network grew and the founders that I had already backed started to notice my passion for supporting early stage companies, both the quality and quantity of my deal flow increased. Across SuperAngel vehicles, we currently represent the largest shareholder in the company.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

I am a shareholder, I love the concept. A lot of people talked about Chipotle being expensive at that point in its evolution. At 4 million a store, here we are with CAVA at 30 million store. I would just say there is a ton of excitement built into this stock.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

No, I think it's just there's no sort of predictable seasonality with the BD deal flow. So, I think we find ourselves not at odds with any sort of competing, let's say, motivation between what we're doing that's right for the company and for shareholders and what the government of Canada funding is allowing us to do.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

And this management team remains laser-focused on executing for shareholders, clients, and communities.And with that, let's open the line for Q&A. But having said that, I think we're seeing a bit of pickup in deal flow, and I would expect the environment to be a bit more supportive.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As a result, the board has appointed a special committee to evaluate any proposed [Technical difficulty] in light of the company's strategic options in the best interest of shareholders. And how is that impacting, I guess, either deal flow or maybe deal sizes? This is Josh Resnik. I can address that.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As you can see on Slide 13, over the past one, five, and 10 years, Walker & Dunlop has generated total shareholder returns greater than any of our direct competitors in the commercial real estate services, specialty finance, and real estate technology space. Note that we aren't cherry-picking here.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our team's continued efforts to create value and identify these opportunities combined with our improved cost of capital have opened up a larger opportunity set and resulted in accelerated deal flow. Obviously, the impact to earnings because of the accounting methodology is a couple pennies this year, we anticipate.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

We're committed to transparency with our shareholders, and we'll provide regular updates on our new product launches as they take place. There's not a lot of deal flow. So, it's our belief that a hybrid model is the right one for us and something that's going to create the most value for our shareholders. We'll move fast.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To our shareholders, we will remain focused on driving innovation and investing for the long term, taking our Globus approach to advance patient care while maintaining operational excellence and a focused, disciplined approach to cost containment, driving expanded profitability. Thanks for taking the question and congrats on the deal flows.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

And all our historical backers, shareholders, they actually kept on supporting the business. In that case, one of the largest European insurance company, if not global, and having together a different proposal, fully aligned, with some complementary sourcing to the deal flow. CHABRAN: Yes, that’s right.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

I think that's a little bit more difficult, but there are examples of companies that have been high-growth, high turnover that have done fabulously well for shareholders like Amazon would be the exception to that rule, Tesla might be another exception to that rule where they're working people to the bone, but it works for their company.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

With supportive markets and more optimistic sentiment from clients, we're confident in our ability to both grow assets on behalf of clients and drive profitable growth for our shareholders. We heard it in our dialogue with them, and we see it in our flows, and I know all of you as shareholders see it in our flows.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

We invest first, either to scale strategic growth initiatives or drive operational efficiency, and then return excess cash to our shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. billion to our shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. In 2023, we returned over 4.5

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