The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

No public company has gone all-in on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) quite like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , which has purchased 193,000 bitcoins since 2020. As a result, the enterprise software company's stock is up over 900%, despite its core business stagnating. billion in net debt since its spending spree began.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Becoming a public company, while a milestone event, was not the destination but the beginning of the next chapter of our journey. This flexible platform positions us for sustainable growth, and our upfront investment in it will create leverage as we scale. Our vertically integrated production capabilities are one example.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up TPG, formerly Texas Pacific Group, is co-headquartered in Fort Worth and San Francisco and specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth capital. The firm was founded in 1992 and manages assets and investments totaling $139bn.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2024

Credit card debt topped $1.12 With potentially lower interest rates coming over the next year, consumers could look to personal lenders to consolidate debt balances, which could be a huge opportunity for Upstart. The company struggled to find lending partners willing to extend credit.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Ratings agencies, such as Fitch, Moody's , and Standard & Poor's (S&P), the latter of which is a subsidiary of S&P Global , are counted on wade through corporate and government debt to assess its riskiness/creditworthiness. In 1980, around 60 publicly traded companies possessed the highly coveted AAA credit rating.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As a result, we've developed a new descriptor for what we are, which is the world's first and largest bitcoin treasury company, the acronym being, coincidentally, BTC. We are a publicly traded company that has adopted bitcoin as our primary treasury reserve asset. One, debt financing. So what does this mean? We have $4.3

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In its short time as a public company, Cava (NYSE: CAVA) has done a great job satisfying the hunger of its investors. Even better, Cava carries no debt on its balance sheet, reducing financial risk. With its 3,530 stores, Chipotle certainly has the scale to better leverage its costs. Investing is a long-term game.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

This company went from focusing solely on refinancing student debt to now becoming a full-on digital banking powerhouse. In the last three months of 2023, SoFi reported its first-ever quarterly profit as a public company, producing earnings per share (EPS) of $0.02 The business has been growing rapidly over the years.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The past year has marked the most transformative in our 25-year history of being a public company as we released MicroStrategy ONE, MicroStrategy AI, MicroStrategy Cloud for Azure, AWS, and now the Google Cloud Platform, and continue to focus on growth in both cloud and AI plus BI. One, cash flow from software operations.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

billion of debt. And after all of that, we have a debt-to-total capital ratio of 7.6%, down from approximately 25% in 2020. as we leverage our volume to increase efficiencies in our operating platform. debt-to-total capital ratio. But perhaps even more importantly, we have paid down approximately $4.9

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

With that kind of return, many investors naturally want to look at which public companies might benefit. There are three main players in releasing a big-budget movie: the production company, the distributor, and the exhibitor. public companies operating movie theaters are AMC Entertainment and Cinemark.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Their growth rates are expected to slow a bit during 2025, given slightly higher levels of supply, and less of a tailwind from bad debt declining, thus they received stable to moderating outlooks. Atlanta ranks as a B performer with an improving outlook mainly due to the progress we've made in reducing bad debt and fraudulent activity.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While we're proud of these milestones, I want to acknowledge upfront that for the first time in 33 quarters as a public company, we fell short of our own expectations. The fourth thing we'll do, leverage the supply and demand imbalance to make the ecosystem better. We have no debt on the balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

Its sales and cash flow have risen steadily since it went public in 2021 (see chart below). billion in cash and investments against zero long-term debt. The company's newest product, aptly named Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), takes it to another level. The company is long-term debt-free and has $3.7

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With IES, we're focusing on addressing the needs of complex businesses, enabling multi-entity management, leveraging AI agents to boost productivity through powerful automation, and delivering actionable insights. 3 on Forbes' America's Best Companies list which came out this month. billion in debt on our balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2024

In particular, a collaboration with Ned Davis Research revealed that companies paying dividends averaged an annual return of 9.18% over a half century (1973-2022). This compared to a considerably more modest average annual return of 3.95% for the public companies that didn't offer a payout over the same period.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a reminder, these disclosed investment spreads utilize our short-term nominal cost of capital, which measures the estimated year-one earnings dilution from raising capital on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume. Cineworld reduced its debt by $4.5 To that end, we ended the second quarter with leverage at 5.3

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The opportunistic credit team will build on the work of the special opportunities strategy and leverage the experience and direct origination network across the firm’s leading global credit platform.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We leverage a team of 8,000 highly trained professionals to provide software management, store implementation, and hardware maintenance for our customers. turns of net leverage based on $419 million of pro forma 2024 adjusted EBITDA. As we move into 2025, we expect to maintain our pro forma net leverage ratio at or below 2 turns.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

This has enabled us to focus on our core strengths while leveraging third parties to add scale and capacity when and where we need it without the requirement to maintain extensive infrastructure or invest ahead of growth. As a result, Canopy has no material debt due until March 2026 and has a healthy cash balance of over $200 million.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

data center REIT as a well-positioned but poorly trading public company with tremendous long-term potential. Our BREIT, BIP Infrastructure, and BPP perpetual strategies acquired the company for $10 billion in 2021, and its lease capacity has already grown sixfold in less than three years. and 17% for the LTM period.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

We intend to allocate the cash proceeds in a balanced manner with significant portions being used to repay debt and for returning capital to shareholders. We continue to leverage our broad portfolio of our intellectual property with the licensing of game feature patents, helping to drive non-terminal revenue, up 45% in the second quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Second, we are on track to separate NCR into two public companies in the fourth quarter of 2023. Over the past three quarters, we have generated over $550 million in free cash flow, allowing us to reduce financial leverage ahead of the separation. And finally, NCR generated $154 million in free cash flow in the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It's not as large as the leading streaming services -- Netflix has almost 283 million paid subscribers -- but it's large enough to create leverage in that streamers feel the need to work with Roku. The company is not generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP) profitable yet, but it generates free cash flow and has $2.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Lyle and I see a number of strengths to leverage and modest challenges that are readily addressable. We have an opportunity to help them do that more consistently through both simplification and better leveraging our data. Now with improved top-line trends, we are actively refining our labor model to better leverage the high sales.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

In fact, Jetti and Wana are already leveraging a joint salesforce to engage retail in New York as the brands of Canopy USA begin to realize opportunities and synergies together. Turning to the balance sheet, as of June 30, 2024, we had $195 million in cash and short-term investments and total principal debt balance of $585 million.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Apple Bank selected us given the strong value proposition of our comprehensive digital-first platform, our differentiated end-user experience, and the potential to drive efficiencies leveraging our technology. times net leverage, 2.7 billion of debt, and 246 million of cash. times net leverage by the end of the year.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveraged buyout group at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute over $3 billion of pioneering transactions for Goldman and its clients.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

It transformed our balance sheet, allowing us to reduce debt by over $65 million, reduced our interest expense. We have an operational foundation that drives extremely high operating leverage. Q4 versus Q1 represented a 31-point margin improvement resulting in a go-forward business with extremely strong operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We achieved notable milestones this quarter, surpassing $1 billion in ARR and posting positive adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow for the first time as a public company, which speaks to the consistent execution of our strategy. Arcade is also leveraging our API integrations across several key partners.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2024

million shares of stock, and additionally, to repay over $550 million of senior debt as we continue to improve our balance sheet with a homebuilding debt-to-total capital ratio of just 7.7%. debt-to-capital ratio -- homebuilding debt-to-capital ratio with $3.6 While we continue to hold a sizable $3.6

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

At the same time, we continue to aggressively manage down debt and interest expense while reducing the complexity of our capital structure, which David will elaborate on. And third, an improvement in net interest expense of $60 million, driven by our second-quarter refinancing, repricing, and debt prepayment activities. We prepaid $1.6

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The Motley Fool

JULY 18, 2024

It is bittersweet to be talking about the company's results publicly for the first time since his passing. Don took great pride in the company's growth, profitability, and shareholder returns, which have been at the top of all public companies in America for the past decade. Debt at the end of the quarter totaled $5.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. As clients increasingly turn to BlackRock, we believe this will result in sustained market-leading organic growth, differentiated operating leverage and earnings and multiple expansion over time. With that, I'll turn it over to Larry. We are not transactional.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Last week, Camden's board and executive management team rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Camden's 30th birthday as a public company. million of secured variable rate debt with a weighted average interest rate of 7.1%. 91% of our debt is now unsecured. per share $0.02 This $0.02

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Our ultimate focus with any growth vertical or new region is to serve as a real estate partner to the world's leading companies and to ensure the investment outcome matches the consistent risk-return profile of our investments, which have proven resilient over almost five decades as an operating company and three decades as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

Another is the former Uber Elevate, which is now a public company called Joby Aviation. Joby since becoming public, is doing OK. This is actually a story about Chegg leveraging AI. The idea here is that Chegg can pair AI or leverage AI with this massive data-set and create something that really benefits students.

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