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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. And today, the difference today during the GSE was that -- as a result of the GSE, leverage is over leveraging, which is not part of the equation today.
such as ongoing exponential growth in mobile data consumption and a business model that benefits from tremendous operating leverage generally hold true across international markets. In many cases, we leverage operating challenges to create new business opportunities and enhance existing or introduce new competitive advantages.
We're working through the details of how we staff, train and incentivize our sales force, price our products leverage our distribution network and capture cross-sell opportunities, and we'll share those details as they evolve. We ended Q3 with a pretty hefty cash balance, our leverage ratios remain pretty attractive.
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In closing, our agreement with Marriott, ongoing investments into our operations and a fantastic sports entertainment backdrop in Las Vegas position us well to create operating leverage by growing our EBITDAR against our fixed rent escalators. This implies a creation multiple of 2.4 The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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If we turn to Slide 5, let me speak to the efficiency from a cost and return perspective. We have shown these KPIs in the past but wanted to highlight the power and operating leverage, like what has created both from an Asian productivity and scaling perspective. Our full-year revenue expectation is now $1.23 billion to $1.3
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