The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

I'm here today with Bill Nash, our president and CEO; Enrique Mayor-Mora, our executive vice president and CFO; and Jon Daniels, our senior vice president, CarMax Auto Finance Operations. CarMax Auto Finance or CAF delivered income of $160 million, up 8% from the same quarter last year. billion of repurchase authorization remaining.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As disclosed earlier in the third quarter, First Solar also possesses a TOPCon patent portfolio through our acquisition of TetraSun in 2013, which we have begun to leverage as part of our ongoing efforts to develop the next generation of PV technologies. Net sales in the third quarter were $0.9 billion, a decrease of $0.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On the institutional side, our continued leadership in pension risk transfer was reinforced through a second transaction with IBM, this time to reinsure $6 billion of pension liabilities. We also maintain a well-diversified, high-quality portfolio and disciplined approach to asset liability management.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

We have robust plans that leverage the demand for flavor and the strength of our brands. Our team remains focused on returning to our long-term growth algorithm, strengthening our profitability, continuing our strong cash flow, paying down our debt, and reducing our leverage ratio. McCormick remains a growth company. Thanks so much.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2025

The brand is set to launch and begin delivery in April, leveraging NIO's [Inaudible] network for rapid market expansion. Foreign language] And regarding your question on the efficiency improvement and also the synergies can be leveraged between two brands. So, if we see our net cash position at above 25 billion.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Our Q3 adjusted EBITDA results reflect a continuation of our strong gross margin performance, our disciplined approach to cost management, and the ongoing benefits of fixed cost leverage as we scale. Like, no relative leverage from the extra week. Third quarter advertising and marketing expense was 191.8 million or 6.7% of net sales.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2024

Map out your finances and set goals to help you stay on track. This separation not only protects your personal assets from business liabilities, but can also offer potential tax benefits. Focus on leveraging free resources and reinvesting your earnings for growth. The cost here is your time.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

As an operating business, we are able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds from equity and debt financing, to accumulate bitcoin, which serves as our primary treasury reserve asset. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 27, 2025

Additionally, we are leveraging innovation as a strategic differentiating tool to meet available demand and stay ahead of market trends. On the technology front, Newmar is beginning to leverage advanced 3D product development technology to successfully reduce the time to market for innovative products like its Super C Grand Star.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is a function of investors being concerned following a July report from The Wall Street Journal that alleged legacy telecom companies utilizing lead-sheathed cables could face large environmental/health liabilities, as well as replacement costs. Furthermore, any potential liabilities would likely be determined by the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, we grew our platinum and diamond member base, leveraging unique incentives like exclusive and early access to key events and brand launches, gifting, and personalized offers that drive engagement. Paula Oyibo -- Senior Vice President, Finance Thanks, Dave, and good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Simeon.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Deepa Subramanian -- Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Finance Thank you, operator. We see continued benefits from supply incentives, leverage on the operating costs and partially offset some of that tailwind by higher insurance costs, which we've talked about before. You may begin.

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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. Net asset value, or NAV -- or NAV, increased by $0.77 per share or 2.6%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per-share basis. Our regulatory debt to equity leverage calculated as total debt excluding our SBIC debentures divided by net asset value was 0.64 Net asset value, or NAV, increased by $1.08 per share over the third quarter and by $2.45 at year-end.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Since our last earnings call on April 30, I am pleased to announce that we are making solid progress on our path forward of one, simplifying the business; two, operational performance improvement and three, reducing leverage. This deal is especially noteworthy since it was our first major retail financing in five years with a Life Co lender.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

Alex joined Pizza Hut in 2015 and has held several leadership roles across strategy, finance, development, and supply chain. leveraging its talent across brands to help share unique learnings and experiences. This system allows us to leverage insights into consumer behavior across our brands in the U.S. and Taco Bell U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

First, we committed to leveraging our distinctive risk capital and human capital structure to unlock new solutions that address the evolving client demand discussed earlier. billion of debt in 2024 and coupled with earnings growth, lowered our debt-to-EBITDA leverage from 4.1 Third, we paid down $2.1 billion in debt and returned $1.6

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And I'd like to acknowledge the work of our finance team for developing methods to track the retail industry standard metric gross margin return on investment, commonly known as GMROI, down to the category level for our own internal use. And as Ken noted, we are addressing other opportunities called out by a consulting partner.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For us, our focus on mitigating shrink has been a continual and evolving process, leveraging our cross-functional teams and investing in technology to test and learn the most effective methods of reducing shrink. Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased 4% compared to the third quarter of last year.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

In addition to the opportunity to increase sales and ultimately realize further growth in the pOpshelf banner, we are also able to leverage learnings from this banner and apply them in our non-consumable categories in our Dollar General stores to further strengthen that offering for our DG customers.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I will now hand the conference over to your speaker today, Ashwin Kesireddy, vice president, investor relations and strategic finance. Ashwin Kesireddy -- Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Strategic Finance Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Zscaler first quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings conference call.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. The Hopper is a comprehensive suite of systems and procedures used to operate and manage the acquisition, financing, and development of land assets at scale, designed and refined by Lennar over the past 20 years. million shares for over $2 billion in cash.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Leverage decreased modestly for the quarter to 7.2 Our Ginnie Mae TBA position in aggregate was largely unchanged as of September 30, as valuations remained attractive and roll implied financing continued to offer an advantage versus repo funding. I think we were well positioned from a leverage perspective. per share, or 5%.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

In February, through HDFS, we launched Harley-Davidson Flex Financing. H-D Flex does just that, while providing them with another innovative financing option to make Harley-Davidson motorcycle ownership fit the individual budget and lifestyle. Turning to Pillar 4 growth beyond bikes. Pillar 5 customer experience. in the prior year.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. Today with Pyro, we get a crystal clear understanding of advances within hours of reviewing the deal tape, which allows us to price the deal quickly and accurately while the seller doesn't need to worry about a tail of liabilities.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

Controllable costs per ton of finished steel shipped improved on both a sequential and year-over-year basis, helped by lower freight costs, better cost performance at our Arizona 2 micro mill, and improved fixed cost leverage across CMC's mill footprint. The adjusted EBITDA margin for the North American steel group of 12.4% compares to 13.5%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

For example, in software, our broad suite of automation products like Apptio and watsonx Orchestrate are leveraging AI and we expect to do the same with HashiCorp once the acquisition is complete. The last 12 months of AI pilots has made it clear that sustained value from AI requires truly leveraging enterprise data.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 29, 2024

[Operator instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker, Mike Spencer, executive vice president of finance and strategy and investor relations. Mike Spencer -- Executive Vice President, Finance, Strategy, Investor Relations Thanks, and good afternoon. Sir, you may begin. Your line is open.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Bakke, senior vice president of corporate finance. Of our $2 billion initial investment volume forecast, approximately half is expected to come in the form of development financing, the vast majority of which is already identified. times in line with our targeted leverage ratio.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This is just one example of how we leverage local trends to connect with users at an emotional level, making them feel that Free Fire is relevant and interesting. So generally, we are quite optimistic by the potentials of our digital finance service business in Brazil in the coming quarters. That's number one.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And now I'd like to introduce your host for today's program, Ben Rodgers, senior vice president of finance and treasurer. Rodgers -- Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer Good morning, and thank you for joining us on APA Corporation's fourth quarter and year-end 2024 financial and operational results conference call.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Matt Milanovich -- Senior Vice President, Finance Good afternoon and welcome to the CAVA second-quarter 2023 financial results conference call. This flexible platform positions us for sustainable growth, and our upfront investment in it will create leverage as we scale. I would now like to turn the conference over to Matt Milanovich.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2025

In addition, David and our finance team stepped up our refinancing efforts, which will bring another approximately $100 million to the bottom line this year alone. And we'll have more to come on our plans to increase awareness and consideration for our brands as we leverage our underexposed portfolio of Caribbean destinations.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Morici -- Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Global Finance Thanks, Joe. We're also excited about the future of digital orthodontics focused on growth opportunities as a company while driving margin improvement and our unique ability to leverage aggregated and anonymized data from approximately 19.5 million, up 1.8%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Before I discuss the details of our third-quarter results, I want to extend my thanks to our interim CEO, Mike Creedon; our former chairman and CEO, Rick Dreiling; my finance team and the extended Dollar Tree management team. Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.4 Yes, we leverage third party.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

This includes robust increases in digital sales, progress leveraging our scale, continued deployment of our proprietary technology ecosystem, and efficiency improvements in our cost structure from efforts underway in the next phase of our journey to be a leading global digital restaurant company. s deep bench of talent assume bigger roles.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

billion in trailing 12-month free cash flow adjusted for equipment finance leases, up $53.2 Our AWS customers are also quite excited about leveraging GenAI to change the customer experiences and businesses. Today, we're reporting $143.3 billion in revenue, up 13% year over year, excluding the impact from foreign exchange rates; $15.3

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