The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2024

The company has done a masterful job of betting on its best brands and avoiding investing too heavily in new brands or making ineffective acquisitions -- choosing instead to pass along its profits to shareholders through buybacks and dividends. It is now leveraging that pricing model through a growing home delivery service.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

And with ROIC ending 2024 at 11%, comfortably above our cost of capital, we are already delivering long-term value for our shareholders as we lay the foundation we'll build upon in 2025 and beyond. times net debt to EBITDA, closing in on our expectation to reach investment-grade leverage metrics in 2026. We ended 2024 with $27.5

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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

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. Excluding Farfetch, net income attributable to Coupang shareholders was approximately $108 million for the quarter and diluted earnings per share was $0.06.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

As we continue to make progress on our plan, we're even more excited about our future and confident that we have the right strategy to capitalize on the next wave of digital advertising and deliver value for our shareholders. We remain open and we'll continue to consider all opportunities to create further value for shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

third quarter 2024 shareholder call. 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.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We also maintained our disciplined approach to capital deployment, while continuing to invest in our businesses and returning excess capital to shareholders. We also maintain a well-diversified, high-quality portfolio and disciplined approach to asset liability management. Turning to Slide 3. Turning to Slide 4. Turning to Slide 5.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Our ultimate goal remains positioning both banners for long-term success and unlocking value for Dollar Tree shareholders. The guideposts of the review remain, as always, to maximize shareholder value through finding the optimal structure for each banner. Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.4

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

This, together with our increased focus on capital allocation discipline, will further enhance shareholder value. We further enhanced our operating profit growth from gross profit growth through operating leverage. Subject to the shareholders' approval at the upcoming 2024 AGM, we are proposing an annual dividend of 3.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

Our vision for the future is clear as we seek to be a force for opportunity for our customers, associates, communities, and shareholders. These include reducing our inventory position, refreshing and refining our processes, leveraging additional tools and technology, and improving execution in our stores.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

We remain focused on our core strategy, delivering consistent results for our customers, the animals and their care, and our shareholders. Our focus on innovation and execution cuts across every part of the business to create shareholder value. The animal health landscape is evolving, and our innovations are at the forefront.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Our commitment to operational excellence ensures we are ready to scale to meet those demands and navigate unforeseen challenges while delivering shareholder value. We commit to growing adjusted net income faster than revenue, and you will return excess capital to shareholders. We will grow revenue faster than the market.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We leverage our development capabilities to explore innovation and bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with our commitment to digital asset growth. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be accretive to existing shareholders. We've issued $4.3 And three, cash flows from our software operations.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the quarter, we continue to execute against our strategy that is driving long-term growth and shareholder value. We're very pleased with Enact's operational strength's capital levels and consistent shareholder distributions. Our first priority is to create shareholder value through Enact's growing market value and returns.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We've increased our regular dividend rate 160%; and including both regular and special dividends, paid or committed to pay more than $13 billion directly to shareholders; and $3.2 billion of that free cash flow back to our shareholders through a mix of our regular dividend and opportunistic share repurchases. We generated $1.6

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2024

percentage points sequentially to 41.6%, slightly ahead of our guidance, mainly due to operating leverage on higher revenue. On the liabilities side, current liabilities decreased by 56 billion NT, mainly due to the decrease in accounts payable. This is to maximize the value for our shareholders. Gross margin decreased 1.3

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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

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. This is to maximize the value for our shareholders. trillion or $60 billion.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

During the quarter, we grew revenue and adjusted EBITDA, expanded our adjusted EBITDA margins, and generated strong operating cash flow, which allowed us to invest in the business and return cash to shareholders. We will continue to optimize our media mix messaging and better leverage our scale and presence to drive traffic.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As part of this, shareholders will receive stock in the new company in exchange for Sony shares. Its Q2 total liabilities of $4.2 It's carving out a niche in the entertainment industry by leveraging its electronics expertise to deliver consumer experiences. It's also taking on debt as another source of funding.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories third-quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last six years.

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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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Now let me say a few words about capital management, our focus on unlocking value to improve shareholder returns. We are evaluating creative ways to monetize the value of these assets in order to return value to shareholders. Number four, speaking of returning value to shareholders. Next, let's turn to our Cainiao strategy.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

Controllable costs per ton of finished steel shipped improved on both a sequential and year-over-year basis, helped by lower freight costs, better cost performance at our Arizona 2 micro mill, and improved fixed cost leverage across CMC's mill footprint. The adjusted EBITDA margin for the North American steel group of 12.4% compares to 13.5%

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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

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. billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. Now to our segment results. And finally, we returned $9.1

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The board has decided those are the three things that are actually driving the most shareholder value. In the short term, we made some trade-offs, some strategic trade-offs that Hans and I feel very good about to drive shareholder value. But where does the value come for Verizon and its shareholders? We know how it feels.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The first was to pay down our debt as fast as we could as this would lower our interest payments and increase our available borrowings, would also give us the financial flexibility we had historically enjoyed given our past low debt leverage ratios. billion shareholder note. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The remaining 50 basis points were driven by ROD leverage. SG&A as a percentage of net sales was 33.4%, leveraging 130 basis points versus last year's reported rate and 110 basis points versus last year's adjusted rate primarily due to lower advertising costs in the quarter. Now, let me turn to SG&A. SG&A was $1.3

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Please note our SEC filings to date as well as our shareholder letter and press release discussing our third quarter are available at investors.applovin.com. Please be sure to review the reconciliations of our GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures in our earnings release and shareholder letter available on our investor relations site.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

We are also leveraging partnerships with franchisees to unlock opportunities in lower-tier cities and strategic locations. With his financial and operational expertise, I'm confident that Adrian will support our growth objectives to create sustainable value for our shareholders. billion to shareholders. million shares.

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Private Equity Professional

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Whereas about half of claims handled by RWI are resolved within 12 months, closer to three quarters are resolved within that time when handled by a professional shareholder representative. [ a huge increase in post-closing indemnification claims for breach of the no undisclosed liabilities seller representation [8] ).

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