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Warren Buffett Just Issued a Dire Warning for These 2 "Bulletproof" Sectors

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Construction inflation has meant railroads have had to invest far greater sums than their depreciation (reflecting spending in prior years) just to maintain the same level of business. For a guaranteed return on a large amount of capital deployed. Union Pacific (NYSE: UP) $6,379 $4,773 24.3 Numbers in millions.

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Main Street Capital (MAIN) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Our investment activity in the third quarter included total investments in our lower middle market portfolio of $52 million, which after aggregate repayments on debt investments and return on invested equity capital, resulted in the net increase in our lower middle market portfolio of $2 million.

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This Top Cruise Line Stock Just Went on Sale

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Royal Caribbean announced three goals less than two years ago as its fleet began returning to full operations. The third piece of its trifecta was to improve its capital allocation and operating income in order to set a new high-water mark for return on invested capital. 17% Q3 2023 $3.46 $3.85 11% Q4 2023 $1.13 $1.25

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Better Growth Stock: Paycom Software vs. Workday

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Workday started out as a cloud-based finance and human resources (HR) services provider before adding more HCM tools and student information services to its platform. Beti delivered a higher return on investment for its clients, but it also generated lower revenue per customer by eliminating certain billable items.

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Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Depreciation of the quarter was $104.8 million year-over-year improvement, driven by lower depreciation of $7.8 million increase in depreciation for the regulated business. And then, as you know, there'll be differences on things like depreciation no longer occurs. How are those returns moving today as well?

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Duluth (DLTH) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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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. EPS was weighed down by noncash depreciation expenses from infrastructure investments. Full year adjusted EBITDA was 33.4

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Amazon.com (AMZN) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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billion in trailing 12-month free cash flow adjusted for equipment finance leases, up $53.2 We remain focused on driving efficiencies across the business, which enables us to invest to support the strong growth we're seeing in AWS, including generative AI, which brings us to capital investments. Today, we're reporting $143.3