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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We are also excited to have several portfolio companies in the advanced stages of completing strategic acquisitions, which if successful, will provide the opportunity for additional future fair value appreciation in addition to providing us highly attractive incremental debt investments in these high-performing portfolio companies.

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JUNE 11, 2024

In the first three months of the year, billionaire hedge fund managers bought millions of shares of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and AT&T (NYSE: T). million shares of the big pharma stock to funds they manage during the first nine months of 2024. In the first quarter, Steven Cohen and Point72, the fund he manages, bought about 15.3

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MARCH 11, 2025

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With stocks, bonds, exchange-traded funds, and derivatives to choose from, the stock market gives everyday investors an endless array of options. average annual return, according to Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research. By the first half of 2025, the company expects net debt to fall to just 2.5x annually, on average.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, due to the $6 billion in long-term debt it took on to fund that purchase, the market has taken a cautious view toward Nasdaq's stock, and it remains below its pre-acquisition announcement price. Armed with this growing FCF creation, management aims to lower Nasdaq's debt load from 4.3 With its $10.5

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Carvana risked bankruptcy because it operated at a loss, funded its business with low-interest debt that was no longer available, and stuffed its sales channels with used car inventory right as consumer demand slowed. Fortunately for shareholders, Carvana's management renegotiated some of its debt.

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JUNE 20, 2023

The company has borrowed money in the form of both debt and equity to keep going, and it's now saddled with $34 billion in long-term debt and heavily diluted shares. It gained prominence as a meme stock when retail investors began to have outsize influence and it became unclear whether Carnival could stick it out.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

MLPs are pass-through entities designed to create material income streams for unitholders that often allow for the deferral of taxes because things like depreciation "pass through" to unitholders. NextEra Energy Partners issues debt and sells units to afford the purchase but increases the cash flow it generates to support its distributions.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I've seen numerous companies harm shareholders with massive debt-fueled acquisitions that put the balance sheet in peril. While Illinois Tool Works leans on debt, it doesn't do so too heavily. Today, the company has a reasonable debt-to- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) ratio of 1.8.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The investment helped establish our $83 million Jupiter Fund, with which we are now actively investing in international cannabis growth opportunities, setting the stage for long-term global expansion. million, including both restricted and unrestricted cash, and negligible debt. I understood the Jupiter Fund.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

3M plans to spin off Solventum, carrying relatively high debt, aiming for a net debt-to-earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio of 3 times to 3.5 billion in net debt. billion in 2022, investors might pencil in Solventum to carry net debt of $7.2 3M will retain a 19.9%

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Real Estate Select Sector SPDR fund is down 27% since 2022 as rising interest rates made investors bearish on REITs, which normally make for good dividend stocks to own. Because REITs fund their property purchases with debt, having loans where interest rates are dropping should provide some cost savings as the debt is refinanced.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

For many years, there were a lot of opportunities for midstream companies to grow, and investors were happily willing to help finance that via the equity and debt markets. The end goal was for Enterprise to replace its use of issuing equity with internal cash flow to fund more of its own capital investment projects. Times have changed.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Shares of Ares Capital offer an ultra-high dividend yield because the market has concerns about its borrowers' ability to repay debt that got a lot more expensive over the past year and a half. million annually before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). At the end of June, loans representing 1.1%

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

During the 50-year period between 1973 and 2022, dividend-paying stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 index delivered a 9.18% average annual return, while non-dividend-paying stocks in the same index returned just 3.95% on average, according to Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research. AT&T finished September with $129 billion in net debt.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

year-over-year increase in its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to nearly $1.9 The clean energy infrastructure company also launched a two-stage process to sell its natural gas pipeline assets to give it the funds to repay maturing convertible equity portfolio financings (CEPFs).

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AUGUST 9, 2023

It now projects normalized funds from operations ( FFO ) of between $1.53 Also, the healthcare REIT's leverage as measured by the adjusted net debt to transaction-adjusted annualized EBITDAre (earnings before interest, income taxes, and depreciation and amortization for real estate) increased in Q2. in Q2, it rose to 6.9x.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Net yields and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) are at or close to 2019 levels, and Carnival is on track to meet its three-year growth goals ahead of schedule. Carnival assumed tons of debt and is still carrying more than $30 billion on its balance sheet. There's still risk today.

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JULY 21, 2024

As the chart shows, performance for the Russell 2000 is quickly perking up, with the corresponding exchange-traded fund (ETF) jumping 13% in just the past month. And in 2024, management expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of at least $535 million. It may have been a timely bet.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Roughly 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) comes from cost-of-service arrangements or long-term contracts. That gives it a nice cushion while enabling Enbridge to retain a meaningful percentage of its earnings to fund its continued expansion. times leverage ratio , well within its 4.5x-5.0x

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JUNE 9, 2024

Here's an almost unbelievable statistic from Harford Funds: Since 1960, 85% of the S&P 500 's cumulative total return was tied to reinvesting dividends. British American Tobacco has also started buying back its stock, which is funded by the monetization of its stake in ITC. However, not all dividend stocks are created equal.

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APRIL 11, 2024

That is lower than it was when the unit price was 10% lower, but it is still notably above what you could collect from an S&P 500 index fund (1.3%) or the average energy stock (2.9%), using the Vanguard Energy Index ETF as an industry proxy. EPD financial debt to EBITDA (TTM); data by YCharts; TTM = trailing 12 months.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

Assuming the lower interest rates allow Realty Income to refinance debt or fund more projects and acquisitions, lower rates should help boost profits. Shareholders should remember that the monthly dividend is sustainable at high and low interest rates because Realty Income pays dividends from its funds from operations (FFO) income.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

These strategies contributed to the company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ( EBITDA ) increase of 93% to $22 million in the quarter, which was its 17th consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. This should allow it to reduce its debt load while funding its growth efforts.

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JULY 1, 2024

This can been seen in the performance of major sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs) such as the Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (NYSEMKT: ENFR) , up about 18% year to date, and the Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEMKT: AMLP) , up nearly 17%. Meanwhile, its balance sheet is in good shape with a leverage ratio (net debt/adjusted EBITDA ) of just 3.2

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AUGUST 20, 2023

That optimism extended into the company's outlook for the rest of 2023, now slightly higher for net income and funds from operations (FFO), a key measure of a REIT's ability to cover and, better yet, increase its dividend. Tanger currently has a price-to-FFO ratio of about 12.3, and Agree Realty at 15.2. and Agree Realty at 15.2.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Enbridge currently gets 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from stable cost-of-service or contracted assets. That enables it to retain billions of dollars in excess cash flow each year to fund new investments and maintain a strong balance sheet. times target range. billion-$6.6

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MAY 12, 2024

A strong start to 2024 Enbridge generated $5 billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) during the first quarter and $3.4 That massive deal has been a near-term growth headwind because Enbridge pre-funded most of the purchase price by issuing stock and taking on debt.

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MAY 9, 2024

Coinbase's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin also turned positive again in 2023 as it aggressively cut costs. Analysts expect its revenue to rise 80% for the full year. Analysts expect its adjusted EBITDA margin to rise from 31% in 2023 to 49% in 2024 as the crypto winter finally ends.

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MAY 17, 2024

That makes logical sense, given that, historically, around 57% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) came from oil pipelines, with another 28% from natural gas pipelines. Enbridge is a North American energy giant that is usually lumped into the midstream sector. and 5 times.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

percentage-point cut to the federal funds rate. times its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and yields about 5.3%. That means a lower cost of debt while making the yield on shares look even more attractive relative to bond investments. times funds from operations (FFO) per share.

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MAY 9, 2024

Today, investors have thousands of publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds to choose from when putting their money to work. Hartford Funds found that publicly traded companies without a dividend generated a modest average annual return of 4.27% over 50 years and were 18% more volatile than the benchmark S&P 500.

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JUNE 23, 2023

In fact, management thinks that Carnival will produce adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of $4 billion (at the midpoint) this fiscal year. The company also has $33 billion of long-term debt on its balance sheet. That's quite the turnaround from last year. 31 and March 31.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Its revenue growth has also decelerated over the past three quarters -- even though it's been expanding its gross margin while narrowing its losses on an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) basis. However, its high debt-to-equity ratio of 3.1 Can SoundHound maintain its momentum?

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APRIL 4, 2024

Approximately 90% of Energy Transfer's 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) is projected to come from fee-based activities. Importantly, Energy Transfer can fund these projects solely through the cash flow it generates after it pays its distributions. In 2023, it generated $7.6

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

In addition, Johnson noted a big win in the digital inclusion government-funded broadband expansion program for the state of California. Finally, Lumen recently reached a deal with creditors that hold $7 billion of the company's debt. In 2027, Lumen had a large maturity "tower" in which a lot of its debt would come due.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

for the full year, strong levels of NII per share and DNII per share to fund our record level of annual shareholder dividends, and a new record for NAV per share for the 10th consecutive quarter. for the quarter. Our positive performance in all four quarters for the year resulted in a return on equity of 19.4%

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