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AUGUST 18, 2024

Generating positive free cash flow (FCF) every year since the turn of the century, the stock has delivered total returns of 3,600% over that time -- or seven times the S&P 500 index's return. Should you invest $1,000 in MTY Food Group right now? is down 40% from its high.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) came in at $681 million, toward the high end of its guidance, and a significant improvement from a loss of $928 million in the quarter a year ago. billion in debt due by the end of 2025.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

Earnings season is here, and Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) shareholders have every right to be tense. The stock has been a big winner in 2023 -- up 77% year to date through Monday's close -- so it will need to justify that surge by delivering a blowout second-quarter performance. Roku has delivered on the earnings stage so far this year.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2023

Ideally, your nest egg will generate passive income, so you don't need to sell your investments to live off of them. Mature, profitable companies with long track records of paying shareholders, and also increasing the amount they pay yearly, can be a strong foundation for any retirement portfolio. Dividends can do this well.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2023

Carnival also proposes the formidable goal of attaining a 12% adjusted return on invested capital (ROIC), an extraordinary feat that involves more than doubling the 2023 adjusted ROIC by 2026, reaching an unprecedented level. billion in cash and equivalents to help keep operations afloat, Carnival shows no signs of sinking soon.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

The company estimates it could generate an additional $300 million of annual adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from this business in the coming years. So, with dividends reinvested, Enterprise Products stock generated nearly 42% returns for shareholders in the past five years.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We're pleased with our performance in the third quarter, which resulted in an annualized return on equity of 18.8%, DNII per share that continued to exceed the dividends paid to our shareholders, and a new record for NAV per share for the ninth consecutive quarter.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories' second quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $3.8 Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories third-quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. Depreciation and amortization for the quarter was $3.7 Christopher S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2024

million, producing a core margin of 16.2%, and an annualized return on invested capital of 14.9%. CMC's mill projects along with our recent strategic bolt-ons, broaden our exposure to favorable structural trends powering domestic construction, and are expected to drive strong future growth in earnings, cash flow, and shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Our solid profitability in fiscal 2024 translated into strong cash flow from operating activities of $900 million which supports CMC's ongoing investment in future growth initiatives, as well as our commitment to providing competitive levels of cash distributions to our shareholders. During the year, we returned $261.8

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

As we begin, I want to acknowledge the company's April 18th announcement of the board of directors' exploration of potential avenues to enhance shareholder value and formation of a special committee to evaluate any proposal that might be presented by Erik and Pete Nordstrom to take the company private.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories second quarter 2023 earnings call. In addition, we'll review Core's strategies and the three financial tenets that the company employs to build long-term shareholder value. G&A x items for the quarter was 8.7

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 12, 2024

This figure excludes 149 million of depreciation. The answer is no, but all options are always open because we're trying to create the best value for our shareholders who have entrusted us with the capital to do that. So, that's the return on investment that attracts and keeps us going at this game. Adjusted EBITDA was 7.4

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

In summary, this improved business environment should provide a favorable backdrop for our company to continue generating significant value for our shareholders. Returning to our third quarter results, CMC's reported net earnings of 119.4 and a trailing EBITDA return on invested capital of 11.3%. million, or $1.02

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

We are continuing to advance our key strategic priorities to drive shareholder value by accelerating profitable growth, driving productivity and operational excellence, and empowering our people. Throughout the quarter, we advanced our enterprise strategic priorities to drive shareholder value for the long term.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

It's a very good question, and I think, honestly, we really focus on -- to the extent we do put in fresh capital, in addition to understanding what it means for our overall business and the totality of our company, it's also absolutely driven by return on investment, just like building a new shopping center. So, there's no add-back.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now that we've completed our two spinoffs, we have more opportunities to invest in driving long-term growth in LTL, a business that generates a high return on invested capital. We're also continuing to make strategic investments in our network to capitalize on upturns in demand. years from 5.9 years at the end of 2022.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

This also meaningfully extends the production life of our installed capacity and improves our returns on investments, similar to the announcement last quarter of our Tower Semiconductor partnership at the 65-nanometer node with our New Mexico site. Just when a factory got very good and depreciated, right, we move to the next node.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We remain committed to returning our balance sheet to its historical strength with a long-term objective of managing to 2.5 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. times leverage level.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For those who don't know what EBITDA is, it's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, so think of it as earnings before really everything that matters. Now they're selling a lot of AI services that have a good return on investment. A lot of their incentives are tied to that.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The second item I wanted to cover is an update on our plans for the return of capital to shareholders. In the nine-year period from 2012 to 2020, we returned over $22 billion of capital to Las Vegas Sands shareholders in the form of dividends and repurchases, which was split roughly 80% dividends and 20% to share repurchases.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I'll begin by discussing how our assets and strategy create value for shareholders. We are highly invested in collaborating with our customers, allocating $3 billion in annual R&D to invent new solutions to the most critical Semiconductor manufacturing challenges. Next, I'll summarize our growth thesis. Turning to cash flows in Q1.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. And with that, I'll now turn the call over to Mark.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Nexxen has built and developed an incredibly advanced tech and data stack that not only helps customers navigate these challenges but also enables them to drive enhanced return on investment and reach their target audiences regardless of where they consume content.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Essentially, we've pull forward our most important sustainability goal and expect a step change in both profitability and return on invested capital in just three years.

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MARCH 3, 2024

shareholders, and in this investor's eyes, it was his best in years. Aside from the fitting tribute to longtime partner Charlie Munger, who passed away late last year at age 99, Buffett expounded on Berkshire's investments in a way he hadn't in many years. For a guaranteed return on a large amount of capital deployed.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

So, I would expect that it will increase depreciation, definitely in that segment. And then we see the revenue, operating income and free cash flow benefit for years to come after that, with strong returns on invested capital. I appreciate all the color in the shareholder letter and even tonight on cost to serve.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

However, with $62 billion of non-cancellable leases on its books -- and generating over $5 billion annually in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) -- the company should easily handle its debt obligations. In simplest terms, when a company's ROIC is higher than its WACC, shareholder value is created.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the shareholder letter, historical financial information spreadsheet and investor day materials on our investor relations website. You'll find everything else from the quarter in the shareholder letter we posted an hour ago.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Our third-quarter operating income was $273 million, which included depreciation and amortization and accretion of $78 million, round cost of $25 million, production stage expense of $12 million, and share-based compensation expense of $8 million. Since our last earnings call, we have continued to make steady progress on this journey.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We plan to continue our operational improvement initiatives and focus on driving profitable growth to create sustainable value for shareholders. And the services segment adjusted gross profit was negative $7 million, which on a cash basis excluding depreciation is approaching breakeven. So, we're going to be focused on it.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. This includes investing in our high-return sustainability growth projects, acquiring accretive businesses, and returning cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

Looking ahead, management also gave new long-term guidance, calling for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) per available passenger berth day (ALBD/APBD) to increase by 50% by 2026, reaching its highest level in almost two decades.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

We returned 326 million of that cash flow to shareholders between dividends and share repurchases. Our capital deployment strategy has been consistent, and we expect to continue to lean in organic investments, our dividend, and share repurchases, all of which center around our goal to generate shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. These efforts demonstrate our commitment to scaling this unique growth opportunity to create long-term value for the environment and shareholders alike.

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