The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In under two years, we have paid down over $8 billion of debt off our peak and significantly reduced interest expense, which, coupled with our improving EBITDA, has improved our leverage metrics tremendously. times net debt to EBITDA, closing in on our expectation to reach investment-grade leverage metrics in 2026. We achieved a 4.3

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We expect continued year-over-year improvement in the fourth quarter as governed by sales performance given the leverage deleverage nature of service. SG&A leveraged by 640 basis points driven by the growth and gross profit and our continued expense efficiency actions. Brian Nagel -- Analyst It's on SG&A and the leverage.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

This quarter, we announced over 30 new ads features and products to help advertisers leverage AI and keep pace with the evolving expectations of customers and users. Luxury jewelry retailer Tiffany leveraged Demand Gen during the holiday season and saw a 2.5% Let me briefly share two examples with you. The campaign drove a 5.6

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

We are doubling down on our efforts to further leverage technology to deliver more targeted advertising to drive incremental traffic, both online and in stores. We continue to leverage additional streaming platforms and vendor technologies to hone our marketing efforts and to better target specific audiences and markets.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

We're continuing to leverage our strongest assets, our associates, capabilities, experience, and culture to build momentum as we manage through the cycle. The extent of this improvement will be governed by sales performance given the leverage, de-leverage nature of service. Thank you, David.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Over the past year, it's consistently grown revenue at double-digit and triple-digit rates, while narrowing its losses on an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) basis. It also ended its latest quarter with $948 million in total liabilities and just $255 million in cash and equivalents.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

We believe our capex-light and high-operating leverage business model will lead to strongly profitable results in the years to come. And today, I will focus my prepared remarks on the drivers for the anticipated strong customer demand and earnings leverage ahead. At the same time, our depreciation declined to $5.1

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Looking past fiscal 2024, leveraging our advanced sourcing and product innovation functions and in partnership with our new chief merchant, Eli Getson, we are significantly enhancing our go-forward assortment and inventory management. This incurred restructuring expenses of $7.7 million, which was spread between two quarters with $1.6

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Commerce Audiences are a set of precision targeting tactics that leverage the largest commerce dataset on the open internet and best-in-class AI to help advertisers acquire and retain customers. Moving down the P&L, depreciation and amortization decreased by 2% in Q1 2024 to $25 million.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

of EPS that wasn't in our June outlook, was related to general liability claims. Predicting these claims is complex and we again increased our accrual for general liability this quarter after observing higher-than-expected costs to resolve certain claims. was attributable to the general liability adjustment, while the remaining $0.08

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We expect to be able to leverage the A&D investments happening today at SkyWater to support numerous commercial use cases that require reliable CMOS performance and applications, like advanced computing and medical diagnostics, which are our next two fastest-growing end markets. I will now turn the call over to Steve.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2024

percentage points sequentially to 41.6%, slightly ahead of our guidance, mainly due to operating leverage on higher revenue. On the liabilities side, current liabilities decreased by 56 billion NT, mainly due to the decrease in accounts payable. Next, let me talk about our 2024 capital budget and depreciation.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

This increase was driven by retail labor, including approximately $40 million of our targeted labor investment, as well as utilities, depreciation, and amortization and rent. These include reducing our inventory position, refreshing and refining our processes, leveraging additional tools and technology, and improving execution in our stores.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 10, 2024

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per share basis. Second, our long-term holding periods also helped generate a diversified portfolio of mature companies that typically have lower relative leverage since they've generally used free cash flow from operations to deleverage over time.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 18, 2024

Product margins were above our expectations, reflecting a combination of cost reductions, fixed overhead leverage, and some one-time nonrecurring benefits. Operating expenses reflected plan leverage in our enabling functions. I would say if we -- as we look at the second half, you will see increased depreciation, as I described.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Enterprise and individual developers have swiftly transitioned from the fear of missing out on this opportunity to leveraging foundation models like ERNIE to build AI applications. Leveraging our technical expertise, we can now integrate GPUs from various vendors into a unified computing cluster to train an LLM. and ERNIE 4.0.,

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The regulatory lag -- recovery lag associated with these investments is exacerbated in 2024 due to the increased level of investment and the shorter-lived nature or, if you will, higher depreciation expense associated with our cybersecurity and technology assets. Utility depreciation and general taxes increased $1.5 million, or $1.21

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the short term, we're leveraging our strengths to capture market share and to optimize our marketing spend. In addition, we're leveraging the benchmarking study to identify and implement structural improvements to improve the business model with a sense of urgency. million and leveraged by 20 basis points to last year at 52.2%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per share basis. And we continue to maintain very strong liquidity and a conservative leverage profile, which we believe is important in the current economic environment. million realized gain in the quarter, as David discussed. per share or 2.6%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We drove strong wholesale GPU despite experiencing steep depreciation, and we stabilized CAF's net interest margins while we maintained penetration. We achieved this despite experiencing steep depreciation that was concentrated primarily in June and July. SG&A as a percent of gross profit was 84%, a leverage of 6.3

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.66, down from 1.76 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years. We will remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet and advancing to our stated goal of achieving a leverage ratio of 1.5 million or 10%. last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

First-quarter 2024 results include higher pension, depreciation, and interest expense compared to the same period in 2023. It's a starting point for our climate strategy as we leverage our system already be in place in new, innovative ways to continue driving down emissions even further. Voters in our service territory agree with us.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 24, 2023

SG&A expenses expanded primarily from wage investments, incentive compensation, general liability claims, and repairs and maintenance costs from improving store conditions. These were partially offset by leverage from increased comp sales and lower stock-compensation expense. These were partially offset by sales comp leverage.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Due to operating leverage, total operating expenses accounted for 10.4% On the liability side, current liabilities increased by TWD 31 billion, while long-term interest-bearing debt decreased by TWD 38 billion. How should we think about the depreciation growth into 2025? Third quarter revenue increased 12.8%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

On marketing, excluding our investments in Vrbo and international markets, our consumer business showed some year-on-year marketing leverage in the second quarter. Excluding these investments, we saw some marketing leverage in our B2C business in the second quarter. Our gross leverage ratio had further reduced 2.3 billion or 9.2

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.47, down from 1.66 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last six years. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $3.7 Our leverage ratio was reduced to 1.47 last quarter. EBIT ex-items for the quarter was $18.2

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

I firmly believe Duluth Trading is uniquely positioned to expand its reach, and I am excited to leverage my experience to drive our next phase of profitable growth. million and leveraged 250 basis points to 44.3% EPS was weighed down by noncash depreciation expenses from infrastructure investments. million or 5.2%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We recently rolled out the next phase of business services, which will help simplify and harmonize customer service and back office processes, leveraging our new platform. While our results benefited from new rates, they were more than offset by higher operating expenses as well as depreciation and interest expense. billion to $1.8

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per-share basis. Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the third quarter of 2024.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

We've talked about whole solutions like smart bidding use AI to predict future ad conversions and their value in helping businesses stay agile and responsive to rapid shifts in demand and how products like Broadmatch leverage LLMs to match ads to relevant searches and help advertisers respond to what millions of people are searching for.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Our spending reflects investment in research and development to support the growth of our platforms and digital tools, expansion of our manufacturing facilities, and planned leverage from our enabling functions. SG&A expenses continue to leverage as we benefit from prior investments that allow us to scale efficiently with growth.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2023

Our continued focus on managing what is in our control drove another quarter of sequential improvement in year-over-year performance across key financial metrics, including unit sales, SG&A leverage, gross profit, and EPS. Excluding the benefit from the settlement, our SG&A leverage was 76%, roughly flat to last year's first quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is reported on a per share basis. We continue to believe that our conservative leverage, strong liquidity, and continued access to capital are significant strengths that have us well positioned for the future. We are very pleased with our performance in the second quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

In parallel to our in-network insurance initiatives, we continue to leverage our universal eligibility check tool in stores and online to help customers easily locate their in-network insurance coverage and average out-of-network benefits. After testing throughout Q2, both of these features are now live in our iOS app. million or 11.9%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Improvement was mainly from sales leveraging, lower rider costs, more favorable commodity prices, and lower advertising expenses. Sales leveraging, low rider cost, and efficiency gains more than offset wage increases for frontline staff. Our restaurant margin was 10.7%, 30 basis points higher than last year.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

In Q1, our e-commerce channel continued to improve, growing 2% year over year and contributing to overall top-line growth and fixed-cost leverage. As expected, we saw stability and modest leverage within the more fixed portion of our cost of goods, including retail occupancy as we've continued to scale our store base. Very helpful.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We've invested -- we've done increasing investments in areas that are -- we know are high-growth areas, and we've still been able to generate over $1 billion of spending leverage over the last five years. So that's where that $1 billion of spending leverage comes, right? But it's not a cookie-cutter approach, David.

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