The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is a function of investors being concerned following a July report from The Wall Street Journal that alleged legacy telecom companies utilizing lead-sheathed cables could face large environmental/health liabilities, as well as replacement costs. Furthermore, any potential liabilities would likely be determined by the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

There's no doubt that AT&T's dividend is safe with its leverage declining. If there were ever to be any health-related liability claims against the company, they'd almost certainly be settled in court. is slow, meaning any sort of financial liability for AT&T would be many years out. The judicial process in the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 24, 2024

Furthermore, from a risk management perspective, we view these credit investments as a prudent, natural hedge to the inherent rate exposure as we have on the liability side of our balance sheet. Realty Income made a total of $858.1 million in credit investments (real estate-backed loans and preferred equity investments) last year at an 8.7%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value. Leverage provides the opportunity to generate higher returns if the price increases. billion in current market value, which are held at MacroStrategy.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2024

It has over $99 billion in assets compared to around $71 billion in liabilities ( current and non-current) and its brand power allows it to exercise its pricing power to offset periods of stagnant volume growth. KO Dividend data by YCharts Coca-Cola's financial health is one of the more robust you'll find.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

This premier protection allows AGNC to prudently deploy leverage to its advantage. The other reason its shares have been weighed down relates to a July report from The Wall Street Journal that alleges legacy telecom companies may face steep health-related liability and cleanup costs tied to their use of lead-sheathed cables.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2024

This separation not only protects your personal assets from business liabilities, but can also offer potential tax benefits. Focus on leveraging free resources and reinvesting your earnings for growth. If so, it doesn't have to break the bank. Unlike a sole proprietorship, an LLC draws a legal line between you and your business.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Nor is it likely that the cost of borrowing money will drop so much that it'll have the option of taking out new cheap debt to pay off its liabilities with higher interest rates. Billions in assets would need to be sold with the goal of reaching total de-leveraging and resetting its fortunes.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

The company is leveraging cutting-edge generative AI technology in Copilot to automate and manage diverse business tasks. The company is also investing in innovative solutions for risk management, fraud detection and prevention, and tokenization -- which are helping minimize liability for e-commerce merchants.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

PetSmart, Petco, and Tractor Supply 's Petsense all enjoyed the advantage of not only already being established brands at the time, but were able to leverage and combine their brick-and-mortar businesses with their online ones established in the meantime. It seems crazy on the surface.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

On top of that, Verizon has more leverage than its closest competitors, which puts it at a spending disadvantage. It followed that up with a $6 billion settlement over product liability regarding earplugs it sold to the U.S. So capital spending is important and likely to remain elevated for the foreseeable future.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Adjusted gross margin improvement was driven primarily by lower freight costs, occupancy cost leverage from the extra week, and higher vendor allowances, partially offset by product costs inflation, unfavorable sales mix, and elevated shrink. per share negative impact, primarily from unfavorable general liability insurance claims.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2024

The stock's performance has admittedly been less than impressive in the last couple of years over investor concerns regarding some significant liability lawsuits. Amazon is leveraging its cloud division to incorporate AI into a range of products and services. In the meantime, the stock drop has contributed to a higher yield.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

This ratio measures a company's financial leverage. When a company shows a negative D/E ratio, its liabilities exceed its assets -- a sign of potential problems. Why the stock scares off some investors The debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio of DigitalOcean is a negative 675% due to total debt of $1.47

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Leverage decreased modestly for the quarter to 7.2 One of the reasons why we ended the quarter last quarter with our leverage still very low at 7.2% I think we were well positioned from a leverage perspective. So I don't anticipate us having to do anything on the leverage side. for the quarter, comprised of $0.36

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In under two years, we have paid down over $8 billion of debt off our peak and significantly reduced interest expense, which, coupled with our improving EBITDA, has improved our leverage metrics tremendously. times net debt to EBITDA, closing in on our expectation to reach investment-grade leverage metrics in 2026. We achieved a 4.3

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2024

ROCE is a profitability metric that is calculated as earnings before interest and taxes divided by total assets minus current liabilities. It is now leveraging that pricing model through a growing home delivery service. ITW is an incredibly well-run business, as evidenced by its growing return on capital employed (ROCE).

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As we have demonstrated many times before, we expect to generate leverage on these investments as we scale and OG&A will decline over time as a percentage of revenue. And we expect to generate leverage as we have in the past on these investments, and we expect OG&A to decline over time as a percentage of revenue.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Since our last earnings call on April 30, I am pleased to announce that we are making solid progress on our path forward of one, simplifying the business; two, operational performance improvement and three, reducing leverage. We have reduced our leverage to 8.48 I think we'll reduce the leverage there. times as compared to 8.76

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.4 Yes, we leverage third party. I just wanted to ask on, it didn't come up this quarter, but there's been the general liability claims a couple of times in the past. And what is the long-term SG&A leverage opportunity as the 3.0 Total inventory was $5.5

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

There's no additional acquisition costs for clients in our ecosystem, creating even more operating leverage. The ability to leverage technology is crucial to scale, drive profitable growth, and adapt to market shifts. Let's move to the third layer that powers our ecosystem and experience technology. Thanks, Ryan, for the question.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We will leverage our strong partnerships and continue collaborating with veterinarians to expand treatment adoption, shifting away from two decades of reliance on NSAIDs. For example, in September, we announced a strategic partnership with Danone to leverage Zoetis' genetic testing capabilities and promoting sustainable dairy production.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

On the liability side, current liabilities increased by NT$113 billion, mainly due to the increase of NT$140 billion in accrued liabilities and others, partially offset by the decrease of NT$44 billion in accounts payable. We also leverage the OSAT partners. trillion or $60 billion. Regarding cash flow and capex.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

At Zeta, our goal is to make marketers the heroes of their stories by helping them to acquire, grow, and retain customers, substantially more efficiently and effectively than ever before by leveraging our data, implementing our software, and utilizing the superpower of our AI. And third, we're raising guidance. in the second quarter of 2023.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

This flexible platform positions us for sustainable growth, and our upfront investment in it will create leverage as we scale. These investments are having a positive impact on our operations, our team, and the guest experience, and we expect them to continue to create leverage over time. million, or 26.1% of revenue, versus 23.3

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2025

million shares of common stock and will use the proceeds to strengthen its capital structure, reduce leverage, and address outstanding maturities on its balance sheet. billion in long-term liabilities. The company sold roughly 27.79 While the company ended its last reported quarter with $1.7 in December, below the 3.3%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Commerce Audiences are a set of precision targeting tactics that leverage the largest commerce dataset on the open internet and best-in-class AI to help advertisers acquire and retain customers. This reflects our operational leverage and the transformation and optimization of our operating model, while investing in areas of growth.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

Next, we remain committed to returning cash to shareholders through a quarterly dividend payment and, over time and when appropriate, share repurchases, all while targeting a leverage ratio of approximately three times adjusted debt to EBITDAR in order to maintain our current investment-grade rating.

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The Motley Fool

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. And so, I think that focus is really helping on both execution and leverage. Now to our segment results. Thank you, guys.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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. 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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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We expect continued year-over-year improvement in the fourth quarter as governed by sales performance given the leverage deleverage nature of service. SG&A leveraged by 640 basis points driven by the growth and gross profit and our continued expense efficiency actions. Brian Nagel -- Analyst It's on SG&A and the leverage.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As Avigal mentioned, we are growing Delek Logistics with prudent management of liquidity and leverage. We are also managing our leverage as we get into core spending period on our new gas processing plant expansion. We have managed liquidity throughout the year by accessing debt and equity markets. Avigal Soreq -- President Yes.

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