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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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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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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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DECEMBER 9, 2024

To that end, we are leveraging the learnings from early service engagement to develop new tools to accelerate future modernization efforts. In addition, as previously announced, we are bringing search and vector service to our community and EA offerings, leveraging our run anywhere competitive advantage in the world of AI.

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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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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The customer was facing rising costs in their SOC with little automation and adequate visibility into the rising number of tailored attacks that leveraged AI. We have hundreds of customers leveraging AI access. This deal was headlined by a SOC transformation where we both replaced multiple SIEMs with XSIAM and XDR.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, operating margins increased roughly 6 points driven by improved operating leverage through cost management and the higher gross margin noted earlier. Capital expenditures, including finance leases, were $11.2 Operating margins increased roughly 5 points year over year to 48%.

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JULY 21, 2024

Low leverage gives Chevron the wiggle room needed to take on debt if there's a prolonged downturn without jeopardizing the financial health of the business. ROCE is earnings before interest and taxes divided by total assets minus current liabilities. It shows a company's ability to manage debt and earn profit from its capital.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I would like now to turn the conference over to Jim Bombassei, head of investor, corporate finance. We have built a strong foundation for our business with a diverse portfolio of products and broad client distribution funnel, which are leveraging to monetize our global sports content. Please go ahead.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Pillar 3 centered on reducing complexity and simplifying our organizational structure with an emphasis on client engagement, quality, automation, and operating leverage. So, if we do get volume, we expect to try to drive some operating leverage as well. The five strategic pillars of Project North Star are as follows: Pillar No.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

By using proceeds from equity and debt financings, as well as cash flows from our operations, we strategically accumulate bitcoin and advocate for its role as digital capital. We leverage our development capabilities to explore innovation and bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with our commitment to digital asset growth.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

I would like to turn the conference over to our host, Brett Feldman, senior vice president of finance and investor relations. Brett Feldman -- Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations Thank you, and good morning. billion, down about $150 million compared to the prior year, primarily due to lower vendor financing payments.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

We also made meaningful progress during the quarter on the debt financing for the project and expect that we will finalize that financing later in 2024. The team has done a great job of staying disciplined on costs, and we remain well-positioned to drive strong operating leverage as the market continues to recover.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Customers are leveraging our customer commitment package and Flex subscription model to both increase their long-term investment in CrowdStrike and increase their adoption of the Falcon platform. As more employees look to leverage GenAI tools for their everyday workflows, data leakage, data theft, and adversary espionage are on the rise.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Gabrielle Rabinovitch -- Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Thank you, Sarah. We expect transaction margin dollars to increase while our operating expenses continue to create significant leverage. Gabrielle Rabinovitch -- Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Thanks, Dan.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

By leveraging our technology, advertisers can synchronize their campaigns to deliver consistent brand messages, effectively to maximize ROI. We are leveraging our advanced location-based capabilities to drive meaningful results for advertisers. Brands can now leverage our appealing high-impact CTV solutions on YouTube.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 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 $116 million, down 14% from the same period last year. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Jon.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Economic leverage ticked down slightly to 5.7 This new partnership in conjunction with our existing recapture agreements should allow Annaly to leverage best-in-class industry partners without taking on the operational leverage and earnings cyclicality of an originator. Turning to details on financing. for Q3 and 10.5%

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

I would like to introduce Dave Schwantes, vice president of finance and investor relations. Dave Schwantes -- Vice President, Finance, Investor Relations, and Decision Support Good afternoon, and welcome to the Sleep Number Corporation third quarter 2024 earnings conference call. Our leverage ratio on a trailing 12-month basis was 4.2

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JANUARY 30, 2024

As part of this refinement, we are aggressively reallocating capacity to proven leisure and VFR markets, including doubling down on those markets where we can leverage JetBlue travel products' superior offering to better serve customers and help us generate higher margins. billion in aircraft financing to support our liquidity needs.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

The first was to pay down our debt as fast as we could as this would lower our interest payments and increase our available borrowings, would also give us the financial flexibility we had historically enjoyed given our past low debt leverage ratios. Lastly, our balance sheet. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

We have outstanding franchises in dealer financial services, Ally Bank, and corporate finance. At the bank, deposits are contributing more margin than at any point in the company's history, and corporate finance is on pace for its highest annual earnings ever. In the third quarter, net financing revenue, excluding OID of $1.5

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JULY 25, 2024

Home closing gross margin for the quarter was 25.9%, which combined with SG&A leverage of 9.3% The strength in demand for our move-in-ready product and our continued use of finance incentives generated second-quarter 2024 average absorption pace of 4.5 resulting in diluted EPS of $6.31. and generated a return on equity of 18.3%.

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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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AUGUST 1, 2024

billion, up 91% year over year, and trailing 12-month free cash flow adjusted for equipment finance leases was $51.4 And third, builders and companies of all sizes are excited about leveraging AI. As a reminder, we define these as a combination of capex plus equipment finance leases. Operating income was $14.7

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

And I don't know if you've seen our new facility up in Vista or Rochester, but we're poised as we start scaling all these new platforms up for substantial volume leverage. As we get volume leverage, you get supply chain leverage, you drive greater automation. What is the conditional on? So, that's part of the driver.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In addition to this quarter's strong commercial performance, we were pleased to announce this morning a completion of both the synthetic royalty transaction and a debt financing transaction that together generated $250 million in gross proceeds. We plan to leverage our U.S. 1 commercial priority is to deliver a strong U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2024

We further enhanced our operating profit growth from gross profit growth through operating leverage. We've scaled the model up to the trillion-parameter mark, leveraging the MoE architecture to enhance performance and reduce inference costs, and we are rapidly improving the model's text-to-picture and text-to-video capabilities.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I will now turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Bill Choi, senior vice president of investor relations and strategic finance. Bill Choi -- Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Strategic Finance Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Zscaler fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings conference call.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per-share basis. Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the third quarter of 2024.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ashley Wu, acting co-CEO and the vice president of finance. We are committed to solidifying Huya's community and maintaining a healthy broadcaster ecology through high-quality broadcaster-generated content and professional esports content, while also leveraging new technologies such as AI-generated content. Ashley, please go ahead.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

And even though spending increases in brand, people, and technology, and strong fee growth, which drove incentive and transaction processing costs higher, we managed to create operating leverage in the fourth quarter. The good news is we created operating leverage in the quarter. Our supplementary leverage ratio was 5.9%

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Sami Badri -- Vice President, Head of Investor Relations and Strategic Finance This is Sami Badri, Cisco's head of investor relations. Strong operating leverage across our business once again drove non-GAAP margins above the high end of our expectations, resulting in earnings per share also coming in above the high end of our guidance range.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Operator instructions] With us today are Francis Dufay CEO of Jumia; and Antoine Maillet-Mezeray, executive vice president, finance, and operations. Building on this momentum, disciplined cost management combined with recent reductions in finance costs reduced our quarterly cash burn from $19.1 We'll start by covering the safe harbor.

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