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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).

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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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3 Reasons to Buy Energy Transfer Stock Like There's No Tomorrow

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While similar, distributions include a return on capital that is untaxed until the units are typically sold, making them tax-deferred. However, investors do receive what is called a K-1 and must fill out some extra tax forms. Typically, investors value midstream companies using an enterprise-value -to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) multiple.

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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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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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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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Where Will Lumen Technologies Stock Be in 1 Year?

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Over the past two years, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins shrank and it racked up steep losses. billion in long-term debt and a staggering debt-to-equity ratio of 70. With an enterprise value of $23.4 It's also still saddled with $18.4 billion in 2024.