The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

We're fortunate that we don't have to spend money on marketing, which actually creates a lot of leverage in our financials service as well. Grindr played a really crucial role in educating the users that, hey, you should go get a vaccine. But so much opportunity almost like a series B company from product development point of view.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Dylan Lewis: Coming up on the show, few tech companies are going public in 2024, but my colleague Ricky Mulvey caught up with the leader of one that just did. All these pieces need to come together to help us get leverage on that. What you're seeing right now is us getting leverage on it. Is it being factual?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As the front-runner in AI, Baidu probably became the first public company globally to launch a GPT model with our EB 4.0 ERNIE continues to gain market recognition as evidenced by ERNIE API costs from multiple well-known companies. standing tall as the most powerful foundation model in China.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

Modernizing legacy applications has always been part of our business, and we have taken steps over the years to simplify and demystify this complex process through partnerships, education and most recently, our Relational Migrator product. Tyler Radke -- Citi -- Analyst And a follow-up question for Michael.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We will continue to leverage our scale to invest in important areas while also focusing heavily on efficiency and optimization. The third is leveraging our free cash flow, which we expect to generate in order to maximize value for our shareholders. So, there could be some leverageable things there for sure.

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The number of public companies you can invest in is less than half where it was 25 years ago,” said Freisner. Once a client advances past the basics, then they can dive deeper into more complex investments such as hedge funds, private equity or leveraged credit. Consider Adding an Alternative Investment to Your Portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

And while our AI platform branded Rezi is in its early days, currently focused on employee education and onboardings, we see a broad applications through Originations and Servicing. And on Slide 16, we, like the rest of the industry, view AI as a technology that will have a transformative impact on our scale business.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And four, getting our leverage ratio into the fours by year-end. We ended the year with leverage at 6.57 Recall that adjusted EBITDA for the leverage calculation includes $39 million of allowable increases to reported adjusted EBITDA for nonrecurring E&O and warehouse closure costs that occurred in the third quarter.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The addition of scaled customers came from industries ranging from travel and hospitality to education to several across advertising and marketing. The agency can leverage our data cloud and intelligence to build higher ROI campaigns in fiber walled garden. times to five times leverage.

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Zajac Group

JANUARY 31, 2022

The strike price also impacts leverage, and how much you can earn based on a changing stock price. Is the Company Public or Private? Both public and pre-IPO companies offer equity compensation, but there is a crucial difference between the two.

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Zajac Group

AUGUST 11, 2022

A smaller spread between the two prices may occur if you are at an early stage or pre-IPO company with a lower 409(a). It may also occur if you are at a public company whose stock price has dropped from its previous high. You also benefit by retaining leverage of the ISOs that remain unexercised.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Pulling up the relaunch of Overstock has the potential to drive higher average unit retails, improve overall margins, and meet customers where they are shopping for the items we know they want, which is a far more efficient way to leverage each of our iconic brands and drive marketing spend efficiencies. Gross margin landed at 15.6%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We also just celebrated our two-year anniversary of becoming a public company, and I'm very proud that we have outperformed the lofty goals we set for ourselves at the time of the IPO. In Q2, we achieved our highest-ever daily and monthly active users, revenue, profitability, and free cash flow, and we surpassed 5 million subscribers.

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Axial

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Corum is also the leading industry educator with its popular conferences and publishes the most widely distributed software M&A research.” ” Visit BMI Merger’s and Acquisition’s Profile “Private Equity and Public Company buyers are professionals with years of experience and have many transactions under their belt.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The past year has marked the most transformative in our 25-year history of being a public company as we released MicroStrategy ONE, MicroStrategy AI, MicroStrategy Cloud for Azure, AWS, and now the Google Cloud Platform, and continue to focus on growth in both cloud and AI plus BI. One, cash flow from software operations.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. RITHOLTZ: And how about Wind Energy or WNDY, W-N-D-Y, what sort of companies do you hold in that sort of EFT? I know GE used to do stuff.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In reality, these scammers are running investment schemes that seek to leverage the popularity of AI. Check out the SEC's educational videos, the HoweyTrade Investment Program , for tips on spotting fake investment platforms and trading programs generally. Use the SEC's EDGAR database to access disclosures for public companies.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Our net leverage remained low relative to our peers at 3.6 And as a public company, as frustrating as it might be, that's our obligation to undertake an investigation to look into those. Recently opened capacity in Malaysia and continued momentum in our largest markets in the region including Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

During his time here, he was instrumental in our growth from a small pre-revenue private company to a public company with over $700 million in revenue. We continue to drive penetration with the focus of the Shockwave sales team and the support of our marketing and physician education programs. Thanks so much.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And I had no work experience in anything. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In education, we continue to expand our higher education footprint globally, including notable growth in the United Kingdom and throughout Asia Pacific. In 2023, we began to invest in building a public API to surface the power of the entire Flywire payments platform. We are also expanding our partner ecosystem of U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

We are now lapping investments tied to public company readiness and expect to get more leverage from this line over time. Finally, I'll mention that on the marketing side, we're doing a lot of educating the market and even some existing customers about all of our products, especially our newer products.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

The acquisition has proven instrumental to the growth of our cannabis business by leveraging its manufacturing capabilities, low-cost procurement strategies, and capitalizing on cannabis 2.0 These savings are largely attributed to SG&A and public company costs, supply chain consolidation and operational efficiencies.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Before we go into details about the quarter, I want to provide some context on what we have accomplished as a public company and how we are looking toward the future. Education continues to prosper well. It was another strong quarter of growth and adjusted EBITDA performance for the company. Adjusted EBITDA was $42.2

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveraged buyout group at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute over $3 billion of pioneering transactions for Goldman and its clients. He also explains how Forstmann Little was the white shoe alternative to the firms doing junk bond financing.

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

I was a public company, CEO, I enjoyed working with investors. And one thing about being a CEO versus, you know, being a chief solutions officer or chief commercialization officer, you spend a lot of your time outside the company as well as inside the company. We need to educate and attract talent to the industry.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

We also remain committed to medical cannabis education and research. We can also leverage our regional footholds to further grow our brands in new markets by using test-and-learn tactics, which may include multibrand best-of-variety packs or installing multibrand taps and taprooms before entering the market with full distribution.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As we discussed previously, we view our margin efficiency as one of Cloudflare's key competitive advantages, and we intend to leverage this opportunity as a strategic weapon to increasingly disrupt markets through continued innovation on our platform and differentiated product packaging. Turning to operating expenses.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

I'm pleased to share that the production of Wana edibles is fully resumed within the quarter, and supply is now coming back into retailers across Canada, as well as into the Spectrum online store, supported by in-market activations and by tender education. Are you able to leverage any relationships with Constellation on the beverage side?

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

This is making the deal easier to complete at a time when high interest rates and market volatility have made debt for leveraged buyouts scarcer and more expensive. The terms of Compass' debt allow for it to be taken over by a new owner without it being refinanced, one of the sources said.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Another example that highlights the expanding use scenarios of ERNIE is [Inaudible] an online exam preparation platform that leverages ERNIE 4.0 Turbo and ERNIE Speed Pro through public cloud API calls. We are leveraging our AI capabilities to improve internal R&D efficiency and facilitate enterprise application development.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

I mean, there have been leveraged loans and high yield bonds since the 1980s. You get paid for the incremental risk that you’re taking in a more leveraged capital structure. BARATTA: They had bought a bunch of educational publishing assets, including U.S. So it’s been a great asset class. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Most recently, Susan served as a public company CFO for IAA, a global marketplace for automotive buyers and sellers. The Getaway leverages our newest proprietary material known as free-fill technology. billion and remain with our net leverage target of one to one and a half times. Now turning to Q1 highlights.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ron, this week, the meme stock company announced that company cash can be used to invest in public companies by company leadership, Ryan Cohen. Adjusted EBITDA margin, 3%, so thin, but there should be some leverage in this business as they continue to grow, and there's room for that. I'm a little curious.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This deal enhances the study linked in fly our value proposition to our shared stakeholders in the higher ed ecosystem, universities, students and agents gives us a great opportunity to expand on each company's existing and successful track records of providing top tier solutions in Australia.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

I am very pleased with our ability to drive first-quarter gross margin above 43% and our Q1 margin represents the highest quarterly gross margin we reported as a public company. Captain Traeger provides retail associates with access to educational training, limited edition products, and exclusive VIP events.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. And finally that they were companies run by children, young, young, young folks. These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation.

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