The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

This business performed incredibly well again in 2024, delivering low teens growth launching new products and driving a great return on investment. This enabled us to fund strategic investments to further advance our industry leadership and offset the expected impact of unfavorable mix this quarter.

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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. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

Interest expense of $206 million in the quarter was up $82 million versus last year primarily reflecting the issuance of $7 billion in debt to fund the NFP acquisition. The net impact of these four items allows us to fund ongoing growth investments while still driving continued margin expansion in line with our historical performance.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We continue to see softer engagement in larger discretionary projects where customers typically use financing to fund the project, such as kitchen and bath remodels. Compute on the average of beginning and ending long-term debt and equity for the trailing 12 months, return on invested capital was approximately 31.5%, down from 38.7%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

The increase in R&D was driven primarily by compensation, which was affected by lapping a reduction in valuation-based compensation liabilities in certain Other Bets in the second quarter last year followed by depreciation. As you will see in the 10-Q, we have chosen to commit to a new multiyear investment of $5 billion.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 1, 2024

Matt Toldedo of Chief Investment Officer reports CalSTRS achieves 8.4% return in 2024 fiscal year: The California State Teachers’ Retirement System achieved an 8.4% return in its fiscal year 2024, a period ending June 30, the fund announced on Tuesday. As long-term investors, we prioritize sustained returns over decades.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We are encouraged to see that this new user cohorts are purchasing bigger basket sizes than older cohorts, giving us better returns on investments and improving our unit economics. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Our investment strategy offers significant opportunities for growth across multiple verticals, including our core of retail and industrial and newer verticals such as data centers and gaming. At the same time, we are making progress toward the establishment of a private capital fund, which I'll touch on later in this call. times range.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 13, 2024

Freschia Gonzales of Wealth Professional reports HOOPP achieves 9.38% return in 2023: The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) announced a return of 9.38 This performance secures the Plan's funded status at 115 percent, demonstrating its robust financial health by having $1.15 in assets for every dollar owed in pensions.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

That is with plain vanilla index funds. If you owned a Standard and Poor's 500 index fund over the past 5-10 years, you've benefited personally from the incredible rise of a company like NVIDIA. Do you personally use index funds for your own money even outside of your employer's 401k? Do you think of index funds like that?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

employer book is nearly 85% ASO or self-funded, which includes earning levers that go well beyond the peer risk-based MCR. And this is one example of a strategy that will help to improve the affordability and the accessibility of these medicines for the patients that need them and for the plan sponsors that are funding them.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

Rising production and increasing margins provide the foundation for a strong second half, while the financials augur well for our ability to fund our growth and so sustain the delivery of value to our shareholders. And there's no better time to deal with the liabilities when you've got big commodity prices. Anita again.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

In line with our stated financial strategy after funding our dividend, Core continued to dedicate free cash to paying down debt. On to the liability side of the balance sheet. The company will remain focused on maximizing free cash and returns on invested capital. During the quarter, Core's net debt was reduced by $15.8

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

With these last couple of acquisitions, it's starting to speak that same language about cost and opportunity and return on investment. The point for AMD here is to allocate their funds very wisely. In other words, you get some return on it that's a financial return, but it doesn't add value. On that note.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

This enabled us to more than offset the impact of lower volumes, while appropriately funding investments to further advance our industry leadership. Total R&D expense was $340 million in Q2, reflecting our ongoing investments in high-impact innovation. Moving on to the details of the P&L. of revenue.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In line with our stated financial strategy, after funding our dividend, Core continued to dedicate free cash to paying down debt. And now on the liability side of the balance sheet, our long-term debt was $142 million at the end of the third quarter of 2024 and considering cash of $21.5 last quarter. I'll now turn it over to.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The cash generation of the business continues to be very strong, and we have ample flexibility and funding to execute on our capital allocation priorities. In the Fios footprint, it's obvious we will go for it when it makes sense for us, both from a return on investment. That strong EBITDA led to free cash flow of $14.5

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

And to address bottlenecks and drive productivity in the product development process, we're shifting capital spending within our existing budget to fund upgrades of R&D facilities to allow us to scale rapidly from lab to pilot to manufacturing. We have a strong return on investment in the spaces. It's at about $700 million.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Franchise marketing fund revenue of $8.6 We continue to make progress on the remaining leases and expect to have entered settlement agreements with landlords for substantially all remaining lease liabilities by the end of the year. Marketing fund expenses were $6.4 million, down 61% from the prior-year period.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

With lower capex and higher free cash flow, we returned nearly $4 billion to stockholders. And we meaningfully improved our return on invested capital. And these plans continue to be well-funded and we're at the 98.6% funding level at fiscal year-end. a year early. Our team focused on what we could control.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The driving force behind Copilot's adoption is the measurable return on investment it offers. Additionally, in Q3, we funded a $30 million settlement related to right of publicity lawsuits, providing avoidance of future litigation costs and liabilities. Our net leverage ratio is 2.3

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

It has ways to convince businesses that they have a better return on investment by staying within Google's cloud. Part of it is, that they build up these massive funds. They're buying this with their real estate fund, which they raised 30 billion for last year. They make these smart investments, typical Blackstone stuff.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

With strong cash generation, we continue to progress our balance sheet back toward investment-grade metrics and announced a 50% increase to our quarterly dividend. We delivered a return on invested capital of 13%, 5 points above our cost of capital and in the top half of the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

million increase year over year, with approximately one-third to fund our growth and two-thirds due to the increase in interest rates on variable rate borrowings. Rupert Merer -- National Bank Financial -- Analyst You talked about being a little more mindful of your spending, and you are still investing in the renewable portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

During the quarter, it was good to see a couple of positive developments in our end-markets that support this view, including continued improvements in the biotech funding environment and the stimulus program announced by China. Total R&D expense was $330 million in Q1, reflecting our ongoing investment in high-impact innovation.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Recycling capital in this way keeps our portfolio competitive, lower its capital expenses, and accelerates our return on invested capital, driving long-term core FFO growth. Last night, we reported core funds from operations for the fourth quarter of 2024 of $190.4 billion of apartments and sold 3.8 It's time to move on.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 18, 2024

Leduc cautioned against comparing the return of short-term investments with the longer-term goals of a pension plan, citing the CPP’s 10 per cent return on investment over the past decade. Ten per cent you may think is a little vanilla-flavoured but for a public fund, it’s No. Can we improve their governance?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Additionally, our data center projects currently under development are roughly 60% pre-leased, four times the historical average providing confidence in visibility to an accelerated pathway to realizing CoreSite's best-in-class returns on invested capital. I'll just hit on your return on invested capital question.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

So I think the intent there is among the benefits to be a better acquirer of businesses, but also the ability to fund sales and marketing investments. And so we certainly are taking costs out, and we're helping fund those activities. I think you referenced 50 bps of leverage there since '22 from takeout of those admin costs.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We reported record total funds from operation of $4.9 We returned a record of more than $3 billion to shareholders in cash dividends. We delevered our A-rated balance sheet, providing additional capacity and flexibility to fund future growth. Fourth quarter funds from operation were $1.39 Other platform investments.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And as for funded customers, we've already grown more in the first half of Q1 than we did in each of the last eight quarters. Currently, for funded customers with our historical X1 credit card, they have an ARPU of over $300 on credit alone. Is a dividend in the works to at least provide some return on investment?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Finally, we are very proud to be selected under the inflation Reduction Act funding to enter in negotiations to develop a briquette plant in the U.S. This helps dilute fixed costs, particularly as we have excess logistics capacity while capital intensity is very low, which implies a very healthy return on invested capital.

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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%. This indicator has a long-lead time, because once the project has been designed, it generally moves to budgeting, funding, and letting phases. million, or 1.63 per diluted share. million related to energy cost rebate programs.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

One important component of this strategy is innovation to solve customers' most pressing needs, aligned with market growth trends, and generate a strong return on investment. independent dealers and distributors take advantage of inventory floor plan financing programs to fund their purchases as customary in our industry.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

We continue to see softer engagement in larger discretionary projects where customers typically use financing to fund the projects such as kitchen and bath remodels. From time to time, we will also invest in the business through acquisitions to enhance our capabilities and to accelerate our strategic objectives.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

This quarter, we started investing more behind brand activation, where we see opportunities to unlock profitable growth, in line with our plan to increase our investment by 15% in 2024. And we fund these investments through the continued expansion of our gross margins and the transformation of our cost structure as we exit TSAs.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the quarter, we continued to deliver strong productivity, reflecting our continued focus on cost management, this enabled us to fund strategic investments to further advance our industry leadership and partially offset the expected impact of unfavorable mix this quarter. Funding is improving, confidence is improving.

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