The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

And many of the biggest companies in the industry are happy to return that cash to shareholders. billion to shareholders over the last 12 months. billion to shareholders over the past year. But one of its biggest competitors has returned even more cash to shareholders. It sports a 5% dividend yield, paying out $8.2

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In addition to filling our portfolio gap in vapes and reinforcing our position in pre-rolls, Motif is a well-run business with an experienced and passionate team, generating 15 consecutive quarters of positive adjusted EBITDA. The combined portfolio results has Organigram holding No. We rose from the No. 11 position to the No.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Our innovative companion animal portfolio grew 15% operationally, while livestock grew 11% on an operational basis.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The company is leveraging its massive global distribution system to meet consumer needs with products and packaging that suit each region, filling outlets with Coke-filled coolers, and finding innovative ways to keep costs down. Coca-Cola is in a great position as 2025 gets started. Amazon has the strongest brand of any online retailer.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Our clients can leverage this data to layer added insights onto campaigns. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Luckily for individuals, large investment funds are required to disclose their buys and sells and overall portfolio each quarter. Should you hop on the dividend growth train and buy Philip Morris International stock for your portfolio? There is a lot of income coming the way of Philip Morris international shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On the social media side of the equation, Meta sits in a lucrative position to leverage AI in such a way that helps it understand its user base on an even deeper level. If you've read my prior pieces about Palantir then you'll know that I am incredibly optimistic about the company's future and I fully intend to remain a shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The foundation's trust includes an equity portfolio worth around $45 billion, as of this writing. Notably, about two-thirds of the portfolio is concentrated in just three stocks. Microsoft (27%) The company Gates founded nearly 50 years ago holds the top spot in his foundation's portfolio. Let's take a closer look at each one.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Our ability to grow, defend, and launch products across markets drove 14% operational revenue growth in our companion animal portfolio alongside solid 5% operational revenue growth for our livestock portfolio, reflecting our commitment to shareholders, adjusted net income grew 15% operationally. pet care portfolio.

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005. if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $859,528 !* million or 6.7%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The trust's equity portfolio is currently valued around $48 billion, but more than two-thirds of that amount, about 69%, is invested in just three stocks. Gates is still one of the largest shareholders in the company he founded, and the company's stock still accounts for a large portion of his wealth. billion at the time.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This partnership allows us to expand our servicing portfolio in a capital-efficient manner. 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.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The integrated oil and gas major continues to deliver solid results and return capital to shareholders through a combination of buybacks and dividends. So, building a portfolio around $50 oil provides a nice margin for error to do well even in a lower oil price environment. Still, the leverage ratio remains at a very healthy level.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

A five-year dividend growth rate above 6% signals both competitive strength and management's commitment to shareholders. Meanwhile, NextEra Energy Resources leverages its first-mover advantage in renewables to develop and operate an expanding portfolio of wind, solar, and battery-storage facilities across North America.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

This strategy continues to pay big dividends for shareholders. With further improvements ahead, the company continues sending more cash to its shareholders. Sending more cash to shareholders Devon used some of its free cash flow to strengthen its already solid balance sheet. billion, putting its net leverage ratio at around 0.6

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

Their leaders prioritize paying shareholders. Here are three great high-yield stocks that check all these boxes, making them smart picks for a retirement income portfolio. The pharmaceutical giant leverages its diversified portfolio across multiple therapeutic areas and a global distribution network to generate consistent cash flow.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Please note that certain information discussed on this call, including information related to portfolio companies, was derived from third-party sources and has not been independently verified. Main Street defines ROE as the net increase in net assets resulting from operations divided by the average quarterly total net assets.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Alperovich has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority and growth investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and divestitures, restructurings, SPACs and de-SPACs, and investments in general partners.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It operates a diverse portfolio of apps such as Tinder and Hinge, each targeting unique user demographics. Match Group's continued focus on shareholder returns was evident in a robust stock repurchase strategy for 2024 that utilized 85% of its free cash for the year. million N/A 15.2 Additionally, total payers decreased from 15.2

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Trust in superior capital allocation Capital allocation in the oil space can be difficult because a company's survival is often prioritized over shareholder profits. How can we tell how good a company has done at investing shareholder wealth? Buffett likes companies that put shareholder interests first. of the company.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

A turnaround plan for the cloud computing business Alibaba was an early mover in the cloud migration trend, leveraging its vast network of businesses and customers to build its cloud computing business. Unlocking value for shareholders Alibaba has been buying back its shares in huge quantities over the last few years. It has spent $4.8

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

On today's call, I will begin by recapping some of the highlights of our Q4 performance, as well as discussing the portfolio optimization actions we recently undertook for both Dollar General and pOpshelf. As a result of the review of our Dollar General portfolio, we made the decision to close 96 stores.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

Adding an accelerant Brookfield Renewable and some partners (its parent, Brookfield Asset Management , and Singapore's state investment company Temasek) recently struck a deal to acquire a majority stake in Neoen from some of its largest shareholders. Adding Neoen would significantly enhance Brookfield's renewable energy portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It's exciting to see the brand reinvigoration take hold with our fourth consecutive quarter of net sales growth and wins across our brand portfolio as we continue to drive relevance and revenue. The remaining 50 basis points were driven by ROD leverage. That does reflect lower nominal dollars versus last year, and it's leveraging.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Please note that certain information discussed on this call, including information related to portfolio companies, was derived from third-party sources and has not been independently verified. Main Street defines ROE as the net increase in net assets resulting from operations divided by the average quarterly total net assets. for the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It has already started to rebuild its portfolio and shareholder payout. It spun off a portion of that portfolio to shareholders by creating office REIT Net Lease Office Properties. The REIT also had a major tenant exercise its option to purchase a portfolio of self-storage properties it leased. The great reset W.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Viatris (NASDAQ:VTRS) , a global healthcare company known for its broad portfolio of pharmaceutical products, released its fourth-quarter 2024 results on Feb. The firm's strategic goals focus on transforming its portfolio to include more innovative, higher-margin products. billion, achieving a leverage ratio of 2.9.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 21, 2024

A series of challenges, such as the crackdown by the Chinese government, slower growth, and a massive management shuffle, have left shareholders in confusion and disappointment. Alibaba aims to be the former group, leveraging AI to redefine its prospects. It also aims to leverage AI to help reach new heights.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

MSTR data by YCharts MicroStrategy as a leveraged Bitcoin ETF Later in the same earnings call, co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor described MicroStrategy as a more flexible and ambitious version of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. We also maintain a well-diversified, high-quality portfolio and disciplined approach to asset liability management. Turning to Slide 3.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adapting to and leveraging new technologies has been in our DNA from the start, and generative AI is pushing the pace of technology innovation faster than ever. in the fourth quarter was up versus last year by about 320 basis points due primarily to leverage from adjusted fixed operating expenses and marketing expenses.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Furthermore, the company is on pace to reach its leverage ratio target of around 2.5 The investment bank believes the company will see improved revenue in the future and could potentially start buying back its shares, given the improvement in its leverage ratio. Is AT&T a buy after last month's surge?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

It's taking several steps to get bigger and better in the future, which should put it in an even stronger position to grow shareholder value. The deal would add complementary positions in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia while adding assets in the Bakken and offshore Guyana to its portfolio. billion deal. It returned a record $7.7

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

Apple has the cash to step in and buy its stock, thereby reducing the share count and giving existing shareholders greater ownership of the company. Granted, it only yields 0.6%, but it's still a massive capital commitment for Apple to its shareholders. The dividend is an additional incentive to hold the stock through volatile periods.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be creative to existing shareholders. Cash flows from software operations. Equity issuances.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During this time, I have connected with shareholders, customers and clients. The combination of these measures will ultimately deliver greater shareholder value. We're also leveraging AI to create a more intuitive workflow and faster turnaround times to reduce frustrations for our members and provider partners.

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