The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

The beauty of this high FCF margin is that it arms management with excess cash to use on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Since 2015, Motorola has spent roughly $6 billion on more than 20 acquisitions, further building out its technological prowess across all three of its product groups.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

First, Kroger's pending $25 billion acquisition of Albertsons and its 2,200 grocery stores would nearly double its store count to about 4,500 locations after a planned divestiture and sale of some stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers. However, several unfolding developments potentially give the grocer some market-beating catalysts.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

However, as promising as the company's two biggest sub-segments are, Federal Signal isn't resting on its laurels, having made 11 acquisitions since 2016, expanding into new verticals as it goes. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

A serial acquirer, Rollins has spent over $1 billion (roughly half its free cash flow) on hundreds of acquisitions over the last five years. Boasting a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 27%, the company has proven to be a masterful acquirer, generating outsize profitability compared to the debt and equity it uses to make new purchases.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Rollins relies upon a serial acquisition strategy to capitalize on the deeply fragmented industry in America. pest control industry with over 20,000 peers, Rollins continuously seeks new tuck-in acquisitions to incorporate into its operations. ROL Cash Return on Capital Invested (CROCI) (TTM) data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Best yet for investors, Enphase's return on invested capital (ROIC) -- a measure of a company's profitability compared to its debt and equity -- has ballooned to 28% thanks to its impressive 20% net profit margin.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We have the plan, Frontier acquisition. It's going to take time until that's come into fruition because it's hanging on another acquisition. We will, as we have closed the Frontier acquisition, have more than 30 million passings -- fiber passing. And that includes investments in our network infrastructure.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We believe that Azure Solutions will allow us to continue to enhance our existing creative solutions, prioritizing ad creatives with predicted higher return on investment. Given the pending acquisition of Teads, we currently do not intend to resume repurchasing shares. We also focus on deploying AI into our internal processes.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Record volumes, strong financial performance, and the closing of the Magellan acquisition solidified 2023 as a year of significant growth and transformation for ONEOK. billion of long-term debt, contributing to a fourth quarter 2023 run rate net debt to EBITDA ratio in line with our previously discussed target of 3.5 billion.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

The investor reaction to the proposed merger. They want to leverage the investments, they being Capital One, leverages the investments and their network they've put down for the last decades, and they can do that by getting larger very quickly with as you say an all-stock deal. Home Depot 's earnings. Ricky Mulvey: Let's do it.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

But before turning to our outlook, I wanted to briefly touch on our acquisition of Mint Mobile and Ultra on May 1. From a financial perspective, the acquisition resulted in a onetime prepaid base adjustment of approximately 3.5 billion stays on the balance sheet to fund the future investments? million customers. While the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

billion in cash and short-term investments, returned $428 million to our shareholders through dividend payments in 2023, paid $85 million to retire debt and finance lease obligations in 2023, and continue to be in a net cash position. You've got mergers. We ended the year with $11.5 So I think it's not to tease out.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

We continue to invest in new products and expanded geographic offerings. Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with a very strong balance sheet including cash and cash equivalents of $537 million and total debt of $29 million. The first one is maybe on the talent acquisition or the recruiting modules. It's stable.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

And with more than 20 years of finance and leadership expertise, Heena brings a breadth of experience across different facets of global finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. million of cash and no outstanding debt on our credit line, leaving us with liquidity of 232 million. Fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA was 21.1

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

John Graham, president and chief executive officer of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board, told BNN Bloomberg in an interview that he expects the U.S. to resolve its debt ceiling debacle and is looking to raise liquidity to take advantage of “opportunities” the fund sees in equity and fixed-income markets. and the U.S.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Was this a distressed acquisition or — RIEDER: It was. But then over the years, you know, through an acquisition or their merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Management, all of a sudden became a big equity house. RIEDER: — to the investment grade market. I’m sorry, Larry and Rob?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2025

Our return on invested capital of 13% is in the upper half of the S&P 500 and double the rest of the industry. Robust cash generation supported further debt reduction and a 50% increase to our quarterly dividend during the year. We congratulate our partner Korean Air on closing their acquisition of Asiana.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2025

Most importantly for investors, Cintas' long-tenured management has a lengthy history of delivering profitable growth , as evidenced by the company's high and rising return on invested capital (ROIC) and improved cash generation.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2025

PSA Owners' Cash Profits Margin and Cash Return on Capital Invested (TTM) data by YCharts Not only does Public Storage create more substantial free cash flows (FCF) from its current stores, but it also does a better job of generating cash from its debt and equity, as its higher cash return on invested capital (ROIC) suggests.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Snacking behemoth Mondelez recently kicked the tires (again) on Hershey's operations as a potential acquisition target. Additionally, the company's best-in-class cash return on invested capital (ROIC) of 14% and free-cash-flow (FCF) margin of 42% round out the reasons why it might be the highest-quality REIT.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2025

It is turning into a successful serial acquirer Though Federal Signal's leadership alone makes it an intriguing investment, its success with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is what really sets it apart. Since 2016, the company has made 13 acquisitions. Federal Signal's recent acquisition of HOG Technologies for $92.5

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2025

In fact, since 2015, Rollins has spent roughly half of its free cash flow (FCF) on acquisitions. Given that more than half of the pest control industry's revenue still comes from small operators generating less than $50 million in sales annually, Rollins will likely continue its acquisitive ways for decades to come.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

ZTS Profit Margin and Return on Invested Capital data by YCharts Its net profit margin has more than tripled since 2012, and return on invested capital (ROIC) has grown to 21%, which ranks in the top quintile of the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

During this conference call, management will make forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions, including statements regarding our business outlook and prospects and our recently complete acquisition of Teads. On February 3rd, we closed our acquisition of Teads. With that, let me turn the call over to David.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We benefited from strong market trends, including record debt issuance for our Ratings business and strong equity valuations for our index business. We saw many issuers take advantage in 2024 to refinance debt and felt very strong activity in CLO volumes, as well as repricing and amend and extend activity. Turning to our divisions.

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