The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

The bear case for 3M Lee Samaha : Even setting aside its ongoing exposure to potential legal liabilities, 3M has struggled operationally in recent years. To provide greater insight into its prospects and the potential pitfalls, two fool.com contributors examine the bear and bull arguments for 3M stock.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The top concern for Visa shareholders would be a U.S. While it might seem like Visa is giving up a sizable opportunity, this decision ensures that the company has no direct liability when credit delinquencies and loan losses rise during periods of economic weakness. The valuation is shareholder-friendly as well.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Companies can't pay quarterly or monthly dividends to their shareholders unless they already have reliable profits. Pinning financial liability on a telecom provider for old cables that were legal when they were installed seems like an uphill battle.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As a point of reference, in last year's fourth quarter, we revised our prior year non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA including the third quarter to eliminate adjustments for raw material write-offs and also to correct the understatement of accrued liabilities related to contract litigation following the decommissioning of our Taiwan facility.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Companies that dole out a regular payout to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, time-tested, and can offer transparent long-term growth outlooks. Even if Verizon were to eventually face some form of monetary liability, this would be determined by the U.S. were to legalize cannabis at the federal level.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

In the past 10 years, the stock's total returns (which include dividends) have come in around 125%, creating significant value for shareholders. It tried to use a subsidiary, LTL Management, to assume responsibility for all the lawsuits and then bankrupt it, thus limiting its overall liability. Judges rejected this attempt -- twice.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

New innovations, mounting competition, legal judgments, acquisitions, collaborations, bankruptcies, and even acts of God contribute to this leaderboard carousel. Berkshire is run by billionaire CEO Warren Buffett, who's delivered a greater than 5,325,000% return to his Class A shareholders (BRK.A) 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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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

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

MAY 2, 2024

The industrial conglomerate has paid dividends to its shareholders for over a century without interruption and has raised its payout annually for more than 60 straight years. The company has been battling legal issues related to water pollution and potentially faulty earplugs sold to the military.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The remaining company would in a position to meet litigation matters and "to return cash to shareholders and value to shareholders including through a dividend, paying an attractive dividend." 3M's cash flow The stock yields 6.6%, and its dividend payout to shareholders in 2023 was $3.3 Image source: Getty Images. Taking the $1.6

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

billion in capital to shareholders due to dividend and share repurchases, lowering our leverage in line with our objectives and continuing our balanced capital allocation discipline. billion in capital to shareholders, including $1 billion of share repurchases. Third, we paid down $2.1 billion in debt and returned $1.6

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

ON Semiconductor ON Semiconductor 's (NASDAQ: ON) shareholders have had a rough couple of years. The electricity and natural gas utility has operations in northern and central California, and outstanding legal questions about how much liability the company will bear for past fires has created substantial uncertainty about its future.

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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. We remain confident that these strategies, together with our cost-efficient operating structure, will allow us to continue to deliver superior results for our shareholders in the future. per share.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

Existing 3M shareholders will get one share of Solventum for every four shares of 3M they own as of the record date for the distribution, which was March 18. On top of that, the electronics market is starting to recover, and the company has agreed to settle most of its legal liabilities. dividend yield. dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

First off, the company is dealing with several legal and regulatory issues that will lead to billions of dollars in legal expenses. Management is working through the issues, including product liability related to military earplugs and the environmental impact of its production of forever chemicals.

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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 outlook.

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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. We continue to allocate excess cash from Enact to drive Genworth's long-term shareholder value. As you know, Brian recently retired. per diluted share.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Shareholder returns consistently beat the market, and the company's diversified, recession-resistant business model insulated the stock during times of turmoil. It could take years to fully quantify 3M's liabilities. Its dividend, which currently yields above 6%, could also be slashed to conserve cash for potential legal setbacks.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Thanks largely to news of a crucial legal settlement, GSK (NYSE: GSK) was one of the better-performing big pharma stocks on Wednesday. Not admitting liability At one point, the heavily marketed Zantac was the best-selling drug in the world. on the day, a performance that easily eclipsed the 0.7% rise of the benchmark S&P 500 index.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 26, 2024

It has been working to mitigate these talc cases by placing liability on a subsidiary, which would then file for bankruptcy. The idea is to settle all cases in one fell swoop, without imposing legal liability on the parent.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As we look ahead, we remain focused on strategically investing in our business and returning capital to shareholders while maintaining our strong investment grade credit ratings. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. We ended 2024 with about $7.7

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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 billion to $3.1

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

Joining me on today's call are Alex Karp, chief executive officer; Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer; Dave Glazer, chief financial officer; and Ryan Taylor, chief revenue officer and chief legal officer. We received a few questions from our shareholders about AI and competitiveness. I'll now turn it over to Ryan to start the call.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

Thankfully, this is a company that brings an assortment of competitive advantages to the table for its shareholders. What's arguably even more attractive than being a legal monopoly is how Sirius XM generates its revenue. Concerns about the health of the advertising industry and the U.S. court system.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

We view our long-term shareholders as partners, we welcome the chance to provide you with an update on how things are going as well as our plans and dreams for the future. We want our shareholders to win as we earn profitable on the capital we use to do this work. Total shareholders' equity stood at $15.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Very few public companies offer monthly dividends, and the ones that do are typically real estate investment trusts (REITs) because they are legally required to pay out 90% of their taxable earnings to shareholders. Additionally, an increasing share count reduces the value of each shareholder's stake.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

It's been using its generous cash flow to return money to its shareholders through buybacks and dividend boosts. The state of its business, future legal liabilities, and poor diversification history isn't so attractive. Like someone holding a garage sale to raise money, eventually Altria will run out of assets to sell.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

The WSJ alleges legacy telecom companies could face exorbitant cleanup costs and health-related liabilities tied to their use of lead-sheathed cables in their networks. Wall Street loathes uncertainty and the possibility of legal overhangs. Further, any liability claims would probably be dealt with in the notoriously slow U.S.

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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. and internationally.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2025

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. And then the second thing, in Q3, we are lapping the net legal settlements, so about $0.10

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Clearlake Capital Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

. “We are pleased to announce this transaction with Aptean, which will deliver significant and immediate value to our shareholders,” said James B. With the assistance of our financial and legal advisors, the Board conducted a thorough and fulsome auction process commencing late in the summer of 2024. Miller, Jr.,

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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. The legal teams are driving this pretty hard.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

In the appendix on Slide 27, you will find information on our public water suppliers and combat arms legal settlements, including the pre-tax payment schedule by year and total combined pre-tax present value and after-tax estimates. We also completed the spinoff of Solventum and finalized two major legal settlements. One final comment.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Joining me on today's call are Alex Karp, chief executive officer; Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer; Dave Glazer, chief financial officer; and Ryan Taylor, chief revenue officer and chief legal officer. We'll now turn to a few questions from our shareholders before opening up the call. commercial business and continued U.S.

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