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Forget Chipotle's Stock Split: Buy This Monster Restaurant Growth Stock Instead

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Highly profitable, but watch debt levels Portillo's is not only a high-volume restaurant concept but also highly profitable. With minimal cash on the balance sheet and over $600 million in debt and tax receivable liabilities with its old private equity owners, the stock has an enterprise value of approximately $1.5

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A Few Years From Now, You'll Wish You Bought This Undervalued Stock

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It's trading for 26 times trailing earnings, and given its debt-bloated balance sheet, that multiple jumps to nearly 60 if you swap out market cap for enterprise value as the numerator. Carnival and its peers had to load up on debt at high rates or sell new shares at low prices to stay afloat. cruise was able to set sail.

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Where Will Carnival Stock Be in 3 Years?

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The cruise line operator's revenue plunged in 2020 and 2021 as global travel ground to a halt during the pandemic, and it was forced to take on a lot more debt to stay solvent. On an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) basis, it generated a profit of $3.3 NYSE: CCL). billion in 2025."

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Walgreens Boots Stock Just Hit Its Lowest Level Since 1998. Time to Buy the Dip or Stay Away?

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billion after-tax goodwill write-down of its VillageMD investment in an admission that it greatly overpaid for the business. billion in net debt, not including operating leases, an ill-advised investment was not a good use of cash. The latter metric takes into account its net debt and takes out non-cash items.

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Prediction: Energy Transfer Stock Will Nearly Double in 5 Years

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billion in growth capex a year would allow it to pay its distribution while having money left over from its cash flow to pay down debt and/or buy back stock. million in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) a year. Price at 10x multiple $26 $27 $28 $29 $30 * Enterprise value is based on 3.42

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This Billionaire Predicted the Nvidia Stock Rally. Now He's Making a Prediction Elsewhere With an Investment That's Already Jumped 13% in the Last Month.

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Driven Brands has an enterprise value of $5 billion (for the record, this is technically a mid-cap stock, not a small-cap stock). And in 2024, management expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of at least $535 million. Driven Brands has $2.9

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This Unstoppable Telecom Giant Returned More Capital to Shareholders Than Both AT&T and Verizon Over the Past Year, and It Just Raised Its Dividend 35%

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However, there's much less of a tax drag on the transaction. Share repurchases incur a 1% tax (paid by the business); qualified dividends are taxed at the long-term capital gains tax rate (paid by the shareholder). They're still working to pay down debt, which eats up a lot of cash flow. and Verizon (8.2).