The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

billion, and we delivered a return on invested capital of nearly 14%, putting Delta's returns in the top half of the S&P 500. Peter Carter -- Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary Hey, Mike. per share, a $0.20 Free cash flow was $1.4 How does that play out? It's Peter Carter.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2023

Our strategy is underpinned by a commitment to financial performance, with a focus on free cash flow, return on invested capital, and earnings durability. Delivering these financial results also positions us to reduce our leverage ratio to three times by the end of the year and significantly improve our return on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

It has terrifically high guest satisfaction scores, which create layers of advantage, which suggests we should be able to stain -- sustain high margins and high returns on investment. With a business with that profile, you invest in it. It's a 25-plus margin business and has been for an extended period of time.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And following the Fitch upgrade in July, our balance sheet now has two investment-grade ratings and our dividend yield is in line with the S&P 500. We are focused on finishing the year strong, delivering industry-leading performance with a return-to-earnings growth and margin expansion, positioning us well as we head into 2025.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Capital expenditures totaled $620 million in Q4 as we continue to invest in strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability. And lastly, we delivered a return on invested capital above 36% for the year. So back to the two themes, it's mainly the cycling of the legal settlements and the deleverage on lower sales.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

But again, that's all in the optionality going forward and how we'll choose it but getting back to the actual legal basis on which we can manage this, I'll pass it to Graham. And where we are today is that, you know, we've -- as I've always done in my career, deal with the liabilities and then you free up. Anita again.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

million was mainly due to a decrease in our legal expenses in the amount of $1.6 million, largely as a result of the finalization of the SEC investigation, and the settlement of the class action and a decrease in the cost of directors and officers liability insurance premium in the amount of $0.4 million as compared to $7.6

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

trillion in assets, are likely bidding up the paper to hedge for growing liabilities, strategists at Citigroup Inc. The bank says liabilities of the ten biggest pension funds have a weighted average duration of around 18 years, so the hedging activity will impact swaps and cash bonds on the 20- and 30-year segment in particular.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations, sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, right-size the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Two additional key performance indicators that management will be discussing on this call are net asset value, or NAV, and return on equity, or ROE. NAV is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and is also reported on a per share basis. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The difference with others is our liability that we settled for is quite a bit higher than our insurance -- total insurance value. There's no reason why being good and reducing waste and improving throughput doesn't extend to how we run R&D, how you run a legal function, HR function, finance. It's at about $700 million.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

times or said another way, a return on investment of 41% for a property, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, that is now the youngest in our Las Vegas portfolio with the attending low capex requirement. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We've designed our capital investment programs to ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. We believe our approach will enable us to grow faster in the long term, grow our share of EBITDA in the Macao market, and generate industry-leading returns on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

We will also offer some perspective on our strengthened balance sheet position with the recent divestiture of one of our noncore businesses, which underscores our focused product strategy and our commitment to driving a strong return on invested capital. Fiscal Note is a transcription service used by The Motley Fool.

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Hedgestone

JULY 10, 2023

It’s important to conduct thorough due diligence to ensure that the business you’re interested in is a good investment. It’s important to conduct thorough due diligence, evaluate the business’s potential, secure financing, and negotiate the deal to ensure that you’re making a sound investment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And again, return on invested capital-based, content-based in every way, shape, or form. First question is about the Vesttoo legal settlement. We've communicated legal settlements and, as Eric just said, expect those to flow through over the next several years, noting there will be meaningful recoveries. Good morning.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

and foreign operations related to a legal entity restructuring implemented in anticipation of the IPO and separation. As Steph mentioned, we will take a disciplined approach to that M&A, balancing profitable growth with return on invested capital. The effective tax rate for 2023 was 24.3%, compared to 19.6%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

of sales, down 137 basis points versus last year's adjusted SG&A, driven by sales deleverage, as well as the cycling of a favorable legal settlement. per share and repurchased 3 million shares for $743 million, returning $1.4 times, and we delivered a return on invested capital above 32%. SG&A was 18.8%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Actual results could differ materially from our expectations, and we have no duty to provide updates unless legally required. Is a dividend in the works to at least provide some return on investment? Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

We've also built a dedicated government solutions team stack with experience: sales, customer service, sales administration, and legal teams with a shared goal of supporting successful government procurement and providing best-in-class fulfillment and service at every level of the government. to $27.35. The Motley Fool recommends McKesson.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

This also meaningfully extends the production life of our installed capacity and improves our returns on investments, similar to the announcement last quarter of our Tower Semiconductor partnership at the 65-nanometer node with our New Mexico site. Our success with IFS will be measured by customer commitments and revenue.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

These additional earnings would bolster Realty Income's return on investment while ensuring incentives between public and private investors are aligned. We have a very large legal team that we are going to leverage that obviously is a massive source of pride for us given that we do a majority of the work in-house.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

And of course, we were pleased this month to welcome Amy Tu into the role of chief legal and compliance officer. So now I want to end my commentary on the quarter by covering our after-tax return on invested capital, which is an important measure of the quality of both our financial results and our capital investments.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

in the second quarter, down 19 basis points from last year due to continuing supply chain investments, partly offset by lower transportation costs and ongoing PPI initiatives. of sales delevered 87 basis points due to sales deleverage, as well as the cycling of a favorable legal settlement. Gross margin was 33.5%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In short, we believe these changes enhance our competitive position by elevating the value of our identity graph and further improving the effectiveness and return on investment for the ZMP for engagement. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We also had extraordinary legal expenses of approximately $800,000 in the fourth quarter. It allows us to optimize the restaurant, both from an efficiency standpoint but also from a return-on-investment standpoint. Todd Brooks -- The Benchmark Company -- Analyst OK. And, Tom, one for you.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

We generated $721 million of free cash flow year-to-date, reflecting strong operating income growth and lower capex, offset by payments related to NFP transaction and integration charges, legal settlement expense, restructuring, and higher cash tax payments as we've previously communicated. So everything is in the construct of that.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

Please note that it also includes the benefit of a one-time legal settlement. Additionally, we delivered return on invested capital of 27.8%, inclusive of a 750-basis-point impact related to transaction costs associated with the sale of our Canadian retail business and the discrete gain we reported in Q1. SG&A of 16.4%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

Jeffrey Graves, president and chief executive officer; Michael Turner, executive vice president and chief financial officer; and Andrew Johnson, executive vice president, chief corporate development officer, and chief legal officer. The webcast portion of this call contains a slide presentation that we will refer to during the call.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: — to the investment grade market. If I get functionally, 90 percent, 85 percent to 90 percent return on investment grade, I can sleep a whole lot better at night. Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: It is real time.

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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. And then we see the revenue, operating income and free cash flow benefit for years to come after that, with strong returns on invested capital. And now I'll turn the call over to Andy.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

The increase was primarily driven by a benefit from a legal settlement that we are overlapping from the first quarter of fiscal 2023 as well as deleverage from our top-line results. 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

MARCH 5, 2024

They have continued to drive a strong return on investment. All in, though, we're really really excited about their great return on investment, great acquisition of new customers for our total banner -- our total brand. We do expect there to be some legal challenges too, I suspect. So, I'll start there.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

Behind each of these drivers is the need to make AI more actionable with more relevant personalization, more impactful marketing programs and more measurable return on investment. We're seeing encouraging returns on investments across product development, sales, and marketing. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

We made a number of significant decisions and identified the programs we want to prioritize and others where we assess the challenges resulted in a low probability-adjusted return on investment and thus were promptly modified or discontinued. and EU sometime later in 2023. The Motley Fool recommends Biogen.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

I'd like to start by congratulating Erica Burkhardt, who was recently promoted to chief legal officer and corporate secretary for Yum! Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Erica is a seasoned and respected leader throughout Yum!,

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And finally, during fiscal 2023, we returned approximately $8 billion to our shareholders in the form of share repurchases, including $1.5 Computed on the average of beginning and ending long-term debt and equity for the trailing 12 months, return on invested capital was 36.7%, compared to 44.6% billion in the fourth quarter.

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