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. In the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 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. We are currently in negotiation with multiple interested parties in rights to our TOPCon patent portfolio.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 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 expect continued year-over-year improvement in the fourth quarter as governed by sales performance given the leverage deleverage nature of service.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The sector has gone through a transformation in the past decade, with midstream companies reducing leverage and being more disciplined when it comes to funding growth projects. Even better, the company has said it could pay excess distributions once its leverage is below 3 times and it has excess free cash flow.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

We have robust plans that leverage the demand for flavor and the strength of our brands. We had strong performance across the portfolio, and our holiday limited-time offer finishing sugars contributed to our share momentum and were incremental to the category. McCormick remains a growth company. A few highlights for the year.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

That kept its leverage ratio at 3.0, It aims for leverage of 3.0, Enterprise Products' combination of stable cash flows, strong distribution coverage, and low leverage put its high-yielding distribution on a very firm foundation. The company invested $875 million into growth capital projects during the first quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

If you're looking to generate passive income for your portfolio, look no further than dividend stocks. Here are two dividend stocks you can buy to boost your income from your portfolio today. BDCs tend to use leverage to help boost their payouts. is below the BDC average of 1.06, showing its more conservative use of leverage.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

The fund can also be the foundation of a thoughtfully designed portfolio, or play several useful supporting roles in other investment styles. As for long-term performance, about 55 ETFs have beaten this Vanguard fund's average returns over the past 10 years without resorting to financial tricks such as leveraged funds.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We've transformed the company from a tax and accounting platform to an AI-driven expert platform. Starting with our consumer platform, Big Bet 3 is focused on helping customers make smart money decisions, take steps to improve their financial health year round, achieve their best tax outcome, and accelerate the receipt of their refund.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Despite the competitive environment in leveraged loans, which have seen record sales of $986bn this year, Ares’ CEO Michael Arougheti emphasised that Ares’ approach spans beyond sponsor lending, encompassing real estate, infrastructure, and other alternative credit strategies. “In net) and Asia-Pacific credit (4.9%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 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. The non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter was actually 20.1%, which is higher than my 19% guidance. Absolutely, we did better.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

That lease structure requires the tenant to cover a property's operating expenses, like routine maintenance, building insurance, and real estate taxes. Carey has a well-diversified portfolio of high-quality, operationally critical properties. The REIT also has a strong investment-grade balance sheet with a low leverage ratio.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Meanwhile, the bulk of its portfolio, 83.3%, consists of rental properties that other healthcare companies operate under long-term triple net ( NNN ) master leases. of the total; real estate tax and ground leases , 1.6%; and other investments, at 3%. Its leverage ratio is currently around 4.76, which is within its 4.0-5.0

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2024

As Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , Buffett is in charge of managing the bulk of the conglomerate's equity portfolio. Buffett's reason for selling focuses on the favorable tax laws American corporations currently benefit from. He expects taxes to go up in the future. billion portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 27, 2024

The beauty of a Roth IRA lies in its tax structure. Contributions are made with after-tax dollars, but the account's growth and withdrawals are tax free under current laws. It's an incredible way to leverage compound interest from a young age. Plus, withdrawals used for qualified education expenses are not taxed.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They often have very high dividend payout ratios and leverage ratios , which puts them at a higher risk of needing to cut their dividends if they run into financial trouble. leverage ratio, well below the 4.0 leverage ratio its stable cash flows can support. in the coming years. Here's a look at what fuels that view.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

I first added the midstream giant to my portfolio in early 2020, right before the pandemic hit. It repaid debt, which steadily drove down its leverage ratio. Today, Energy Transfer has a strong investment-grade balance sheet with a leverage ratio in the lower half of its 4.0-to-4.5x times target range.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

Roughly 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) comes from cost-of-service arrangements or long-term contracts. Finally, Enbridge has a strong balance sheet with a conservative leverage ratio. times leverage ratio , well within its 4.5x-5.0x target range.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Because of that, most investors likely would only want to own one of them in their portfolio. Pondering their portfolios Realty Income and NNN REIT have very similar business models. However, there are a couple of key differences between their portfolios. Realty Income has a much larger and more diversified portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

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. Moving to interest, other income and taxes on Slide 11. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005. Third, we paid down $2.1

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 8, 2024

You can also add other tax-advantaged accounts to your retirement portfolio to help you reach the million-dollar mark. For example, you could become a speaker, writer, author, consultant, and trainer by leveraging a single skill. What stocks should you add to your retirement portfolio?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2024

Enbridge currently gets 98% of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from stable cost-of-service or contracted assets. Enbridge has been working to enhance the stability of its earnings profile by upgrading its portfolio. times target range. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 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. Now turning to servicing, the portfolio hit $1.1 On a year-over-year basis, the portfolio is up 33%. How does Pyro help us?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

These features make it an excellent investment option for those desiring income and who are comfortable with receiving a Schedule K-1 federal tax form that MLPs like Enterprise send to their investors each year. A cash flow-generating machine Enterprise Products Partners operates a diversified portfolio of midstream assets.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2024

Margins benefited from leverage from higher sales. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) nearly tripled, from $12.7 The company also showed off strong margin improvement as its restaurant-level profit margin improved to 26.5% from 26.1% in the quarter a year ago. million to $34.3

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

It has a diversified portfolio of midstream assets, including pipelines , processing plants, storage terminals, export complexes, and petrochemical plants. times leverage ratio. Several factors have contributed to the company's ability to deliver such consistent growth. The MLP has A-rated credit and a low 3.0

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Bears can rightfully point to Carnival's problematic leverage, but now that Carnival is cruising in the right direction, it's working on turning that mountain into a molehill. Put another way, Carnival is probably trading for a lot less than 12 times what it will ultimately earn in fiscal 2025. It has bought back $6.6 A falling U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

Investors who like Enterprise Products Partners (and understand the tax complexities of owning an MLP ) should check out fellow MLP MPLX (NYSE: MPLX). billion of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and $5.3 leverage ratio , which falls in the middle of its 2.75-3.25 target range.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2024

Meanwhile, its balance sheet is in good shape with a leverage ratio (net debt/adjusted EBITDA ) of just 3.2 < Situated in the right basins, MPLX looks in good shape to continue growing its distributions, while its forward enterprise value (EV) -to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) valuation of 9.6

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The Motley Fool

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. Please note that my discussion of SG&A exclude share-based compensation expense and related taxes. How fast can we get to 30% or 40%?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Backing that above-average yield is an energy company with a widely diversified portfolio, spanning the upstream (energy production), midstream (pipelines), and downstream (chemicals and refining) segments of the industry. Moreover, its portfolio of assets is spread across the globe. Image source: Getty Images. And it comes with a 5.8%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Its balance sheet is strong, with a leverage ratio of 3x and solid A- and A3 credit ratings. That means it issues K-1 tax forms, which make tax preparation more complicated. However, I think the many advantages that investing in this midstream energy stock offers easily outweigh this tax-related downside.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

That lease structure requires tenants to cover all of a property's operating costs, including routine maintenance, building insurance, and real estate taxes. The company owns a portfolio of nearly 1,300 high-quality, operationally critical warehouse, industrial, and retail properties leased to credit-worthy tenants. billion and $1.75

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

AppLovin owns a portfolio of gaming apps but its primary business is an adtech solution to help mobile app developers attract users and better monetize their apps. The company continues to see a ton of operating leverage in its business as sales climb, with gross margin for the quarter improving to 77.5% billion, topping the $1.13

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