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The interests of our shareholders, clients, and employees will always be well served by Core Labs' resilient culture which relies on innovation, leveraging technology to solve problems, and dedicated customer services. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was 3.9 Our leverage ratio improved to 1.85 million or down 7.9
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compounded annually, which will allow us to use our cash flow generation to pay down debt and rebuild the balance sheet as we work toward investment-grade leverage metrics. We are also working to further leverage and monetize our industry-leading land-based assets in the Caribbean and Alaska. And then -- is that the right math?
And the services segment adjusted gross profit was negative $7 million, which on a cash basis excluding depreciation is approaching breakeven. The strong performance in the business coupled with our debt refinancing and reduction efforts, has lowered our net leverage to 3.3 So, there is a lot of things we can do internally.
Looking ahead, we have developed an ambitious plan that seeks to enhance our growth trajectory and drive permanent improvement in CMC's margin profile by leveraging both accretive organic projects and inorganic growth in attractive adjacent markets. and a trailing 12-month return on invested capital of 10%. million or $0.90
For Q1, we expect our cost of sales to be in the high 29% range as pricing leverage and the benefit from Brisket ramping down will be partially offset by higher costs across several items, most notably avocados and chicken. The decrease was driven by sales leverage and a lower delivery mix, partially offset by a true-up in insurance reserves.
We remain committed to returning our balance sheet to its historical strength with a long-term objective of managing to 2.5 times leverage level. We also remain committed to returning capital to shareholders. Depreciation expense of $188 million was $14 million lower than last year due to reduced technology capital spend.
million, producing a core margin of 16.2%, and an annualized return on invested capital of 14.9%. Our leverage ratios remain attractive and have improved significantly over the past several fiscal years. Excluding the impact of nonoperational items, which Paul will cover in detail, adjusted earnings were 192.7 million, or 1.63
The strong flow-through of revenue to EBITDA reflects the operating leverage of our business, once the fixed costs have been covered. It sounds like transportation bottlenecks are no longer really the issue in Macao, if it's the RMB depreciation? You mentioned leverage, and this is a very important thing. That's the goal.
Revenue was at the higher end of our guidance, and we had strong EPS upside as a result of our ongoing relentless focus on driving operating leverage and expense management, including comfortably meeting our $3 billion cost savings commitment for fiscal year '23. 2023 was definitely a year when we did what we said we would do and more.
As Brian will detail, in 2025, these actions are expected to result in expanded operating margins and an improvement in return on invested capital. Looking at cost per piece, throughout the fourth quarter and the peak period, we leveraged technology and our proven practices to hold the increase to just 0.9%. We will deliver.
During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. This improvement was primarily fueled by our collection and disposal business benefiting from the robust operating leverage of our strategic cost optimization. Thank you so much.
We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations and sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, rightsize the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. million in the third quarter of last year.
is to invest in our network. Our business has historically generated a high return on invested capital. Depreciation expense increased by 22% year over year or $13 million, reflecting the investments we're making in the business. Our net debt leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was 2.9
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