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

JULY 17, 2023

AT&T AT&T (NYSE: T) has been a factory of sadness for shareholders this year.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Palantir shareholders might also remember in 2021 when CEO Alex Karp forecasted a 30% revenue growth rate in the 2022-2024 time frame. On the Q3 2023 earnings call , chief business affairs officer and chief legal officer Ryan Taylor reported eye-popping productivity gains from AIP. The AIP Bootcamps delivered impressive results.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And that's before considering the multi-billion dollar cash the company will drop due to legal settlements relating to its manufacture and use of PFAS chemicals and, allegedly, faulty combat arms earplugs. CFO Monish Patolawala noted in earnings calls that "volume gives us the best leverage." Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

steel import levels; construction activity; demand for finished steel products; the expected capabilities, benefits, and timeline for construction of new facilities; the company's operations; the company's strategic growth plan; legal proceedings; the company's future results of operations; financial measures; and capital spending.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

Advisors Jefferies LLC is acting as lead financial advisor and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is serving as legal counsel to Fiesta in connection with the proposed transaction. Guggenheim Securities is serving as lead financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel to ARB and Garnett Station.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Following my comments, Dave and Ryan will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the fourth quarter, after which we'll be happy to take your questions. per share.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2025

We will continue to leverage our digital conveniences to drive member loyalty in the future. Our capital allocation strategy is consistent with our historical framework as we continue to take a disciplined approach to maximizing shareholder value. We also continued to return excess cash to shareholders. Moving on to SG&A.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Verizon's leverage, however, is higher than that of its two main competitors. Verizon's leverage has fallen dramatically over the past decade, so it is moving in the right direction on this front. A material deterioration in leverage from current levels would indicate a potentially worrisome increase in risk.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2025

We also continued to drive significant demand in our portfolio from new legal drinking age consumers and are pleased to have had a higher proportion of our dollar sales this year coming from 21 to 24 year olds as they have made more trips to the store and spend more on each trip across our brands. We maintained a 2.9 Operator Thank you.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The firm has the unique position of leveraging its size and scale to benefit not only clients, but also to benefit the communities it serves. Fielding Miller will continue to lead the firm and remains the largest individual shareholder. Alston & Bird LLP served as CAPTRUST’s legal counsel.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As I mentioned during our last call, shareholders rightfully expect both short- and long-term results. Excluding live streaming revenue, gains in emerging brands over the past few quarters have largely been offsetting declines from the Evergreen brands as we illustrated in the shareholder letter. Turning to our balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Genworth continued to make strong progress in the first quarter against our strategic priorities to drive long-term growth and shareholder value. We are very pleased with Enact's continued strong operating performance, capital levels, and shareholder distributions. per share and adjusted operating income of $85 million or $0.19

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The energy sector has a nice balance of yield and value, as many oil and gas companies reward their shareholders with dividends and feature inexpensive valuations. Phillips 66 is taking necessary measures to lower its leverage and improve its cost structure. If the leverage ratio falls below 0.5, Phillips 66 has distributed $12.5

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Jacques Stern, Global Blue CEO said: “We are pleased to welcome Tencent as a shareholder as we continue to diversify our ownership base. Global Blue intends to use the primary proceeds to reduce its debt balance, in pursuit of its long-term target of net leverage of less than 2.5x At closing, Tencent will own 18.18

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Additionally, the company paid $38 million in dividends to shareholders during the current quarter. We believe that these continued cost-out efforts, combined with a continually improving demand environment, will continue to produce enhanced earnings leverage as we move into the future.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

I always look forward to these opportunities to connect with our shareholders and share with you the exciting developments at FiscalNote. As we entered this year, we did so as a leaner, more focused organization with a relentless commitment to leveraging our decade-long investment in artificial intelligence.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The proposed transaction has been unanimously approved by a special committee of independent and disinterested directors of the Board (the “Special Committee”), advised by independent legal and financial advisors, formed to evaluate and consider the proposal and other potential strategic alternatives.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These tools enable organizations to leverage their core applications and offer flexibility for modernization, allowing them to run applications wherever they choose. Rocket Software intends to fund the acquisition with a combination of new cash equity from its existing shareholders, committed debt financing, and cash from its balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

Mitsui also has a very shareholder-friendly operating structure that now includes up to $1.3 To add to this point, El Salvador's experiment with Bitcoin as a legal tender has predominantly been a flop. The cherry on top is that MicroStrategy has been financing its leveraged Bitcoin strategy by issuing convertible debt.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

More important to current and prospective shareholders, MercadoLibre is very much in the right place at the right time with the right lineup of services. While its roots are in the fantasy sports business, 2018's lift of the federal ban on sports-based wagering started a wave of state-level legalization.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Genworth continues to make strong progress against our strategic priorities to drive long-term growth and shareholder value. We are very pleased with Enact's continued strong operating performance, capital levels and shareholder distributions. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our second quarter earnings call.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2025

Earlier in the year, we spun off our healthcare business group as Solventum, and we settled two significant legal matters. billion to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases. billion to shareholders, $2 billion in dividends, and $1.8 billion to shareholders in 2024. 2024 was a pivotal year for 3M.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The strategic partnership has proven to be both an important source of capital for Global Atlantic and a driver of international growth, with Global Atlantic leveraging KKR’s global reach to establish new business relationships in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Global Atlantic’s book value with certain adjustments.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

Importantly, DraftKings has brand recognition among sports fans from fantasy sports and can leverage that as more states legalize aspects of betting. From there, earnings should snowball as revenue outpaces expenses (operating leverage). The industry's rapid growth translates swimmingly to DraftKings' operating results.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Please note, our SEC filings to date, as well as our shareholder letter, financial update, and press release discussing our fourth quarter annual performance are available at investors.applovin.com. It's a win-win for brands, consumers, and shareholders. And the legal process is much, much shorter. During the year, we had $2.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Notwithstanding the incredible growth and success of the brand over that time, there is a very substantial growth runway over the coming years as more of the world's 1 billion legal-age smokers switch to better alternatives. Indeed, robust growth continued this year. With ongoing efforts to increase our U.S. for the year.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

So that speaks for the added flexibility that the leveraging is giving to us. So we balance the different priorities at a given moment in time, seeing -- aiming to create value for shareholders. The second point, this brand over-indexes a lot among legal drinking age to 24, 25 consumers. It's twice as much.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 22, 2024

Capital returns are improving For the fourth year in a row, Signet generated more than $600 million in free cash flow, adjusted for a one-time legal settlement, meaning the stock trades at less than 7 times free cash flow. at the end of the quarter, and the company reduced its leverage target from a 2.75 ratio to 2.5

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Dividend basics Dividends are payments from companies to shareholders, typically in the form of a quarterly distribution of cash. A company may simply be producing more cash than it has uses for, in which case it may just be extra generous with its shareholders. It uses leverage (i.e., AFC Gamma , 16.8% AGNC Investment , 15.3%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2023, Genworth made outstanding progress against our three strategic priorities, which enabled us to return significant value to our shareholders. They operate as a closed system, leveraging existing reserves and capital, current premiums, as well as future new premiums under the LTC MYRAP plan to cover future claims and other obligations.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This transaction was thoughtfully structured to preserve the strength of Aurora's balance sheet and represents a strategic milestone in Aurora's global cannabis leadership, as we have now become the largest platform in the nationally legal cannabis industry in the world. We first partnered with MedReleaf Australia back in 2017.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

Buffett and his team have also overcome the potentially disadvantageous effects stemming from the legal requirement to disclose their quarterly buys and sells. Instead, Apple leverages its loyal customer base to drive sales of its iconic iPhone.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Our guidance assumes, among other things, that we don't conclude any additional business acquisitions, restructurings or legal settlements. Our AWS customers are also quite excited about leveraging GenAI to change the customer experiences and businesses. And now I'll turn the call over to Andy. Worldwide operating income was $15.3

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Eric is uniquely positioned to lead DISCO into its next stage, which we believe will be characterized by a strong company culture, a return to consistent growth, and improved profitability and shareholder returns. But the legal industry is the one that stands to benefit the most from this technological advancement.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

Our proxy has been sent to all shareholders of record, and our Form DEF 14A can be found online in the investor relations section of our website. Our legal costs moving forward should normalize, with lower expenses projected in the second half compared to the prior year. Our focus is clear.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Importantly, we are now on an inflection point to drive multiyear operating margin expansion, generating significant cash flow and deliver meaningful shareholder value. The 4Sight products target fast-growing in-play gaming sector and optimizes acquisition, engagement and retention by leveraging our cutting-edge technology.

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