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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. Why did Buffett like utilities? Forest Service for damages and cleanup.

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Main Street Capital (MAIN) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Two additional key performance indicators that management will be discussing on this call are net asset value, or NAV, and return on equity, or ROE. NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per share basis. million realized gain in the quarter, as David discussed.

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Alphabet (GOOGL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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billion, up 14%, with the increase driven primarily by content acquisition costs, followed by depreciation, as well as the impact of the Canadian Digital Services Tax, which was applied retroactively. And how are we thinking about the return on invested capital with this AI capex cycle? billion, up 11%. Operating income was $27.4

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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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How to Value a Landscape Business

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The Asset Approach: This approach looks at the company’s assets and liabilities to determine its value. Assets and Liabilities: The value of a landscape business’s assets and liabilities can impact its value. Subtract the value of the business’s liabilities, including debts and loans.

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Duluth (DLTH) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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To bring awareness to our innovation and product offerings, our marketing and creative teams ramped up our investments in social influencers, which delivered meaningful engagement and strong growth from new younger consumers. EPS was weighed down by noncash depreciation expenses from infrastructure investments. million or 5.2%

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FedEx (FDX) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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As I stated in my prepared remarks, we're planning to stay within that area of investment not only in FY '26 but for the immediate years beyond. That all said, our investments are focused on return on invested capital, right, which is now also included in our executives long-term incentive compensation.