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AUGUST 1, 2024

This outperformance isn't a surprise when you consider that companies doling out a regular dividend are usually profitable on a recurring basis, time-tested, and capable of providing transparent long-term growth outlooks. Ford also has a healthy balance sheet that should allow it to return plenty of capital to its shareholders.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Shareholders have been very happy with Costco 's (NASDAQ: COST) track record. Costco's unmatched scale results in negotiating leverage with vendors, which benefits customers. Customers must pay annual fees, which have proven pricing power , to shop at the company's warehouses. This is despite an uncertain economic backdrop.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Whereas gold doesn't offer a dividend, many of the largest precious-metal mining companies do pay a dividend to their shareholders. Further, gold companies can adjust their capital expenditures or growth strategies to alter their key performance metrics. As expected, the income stocks vastly outperformed the non-payers: 9.5%

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The second quarter of 2023 marked our two-year anniversary as a public company, and I'm extremely proud to announce we have exceeded consensus estimates and raised our outlook every quarter since we've gone public with Q2 continuing this pattern. Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for joining us today.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Consistent earnings help drive dividends and share buybacks, which might be appealing to some investors, particularly those who seek to own proven businesses that return cash to shareholders. In the last three months of 2023, SoFi reported its first-ever quarterly profit as a public company, producing earnings per share (EPS) of $0.02

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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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MARCH 9, 2024

No public company has gone all-in on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) quite like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , which has purchased 193,000 bitcoins since 2020. As a result, the enterprise software company's stock is up over 900%, despite its core business stagnating. As a result, the company's outstanding shares have exploded from 9.7

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MARCH 14, 2024

A short track record as a public company Roblox is a classic example of a solid growth stock. The video game company almost doubled its quarterly revenue from $387 million in the first quarter of 2021 to $750 million in the final quarter of 2023, less than three years after it went public in March 2021.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The past year has marked the most transformative in our 25-year history of being a public company as we released MicroStrategy ONE, MicroStrategy AI, MicroStrategy Cloud for Azure, AWS, and now the Google Cloud Platform, and continue to focus on growth in both cloud and AI plus BI. One, cash flow from software operations.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Although Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been a fantastic investment throughout its history as a public company, it hasn't worked out as well for shareholders recently. Niccol deserves credit for directing Chipotle's expansion, which resulted in a tremendous gain for shareholders in the past few years.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While we're proud of these milestones, I want to acknowledge upfront that for the first time in 33 quarters as a public company, we fell short of our own expectations. The fourth thing we'll do, leverage the supply and demand imbalance to make the ecosystem better. Is the company not executing?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Cathie Wood became an investing hero when her exchange-traded funds (ETF) that focus on disruptive technology stocks zoomed higher early in the pandemic, outperforming the market and delivering incredible gains for shareholders. That changed in the bear market when investors dumped growth stocks and ran toward safe stocks.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Looking ahead, we will continue to expand the Choice model, leverage the capabilities of an integrated cross-border supply chain and enhanced consumer experience with higher certainty in logistics and service level. I sincerely thank our shareholders and analysts for your trust and support over the years.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

I'm excited to be here at BJ's and what lies ahead for our brand and for our shareholders. Lyle and I see a number of strengths to leverage and modest challenges that are readily addressable. We have an opportunity to help them do that more consistently through both simplification and better leveraging our data.

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JULY 18, 2024

It is bittersweet to be talking about the company's results publicly for the first time since his passing. Don took great pride in the company's growth, profitability, and shareholder returns, which have been at the top of all public companies in America for the past decade. per diluted share compared to $3.90

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

as we leverage our volume to increase efficiencies in our operating platform. The stock will be distributed as a stock dividend of Millrose stock to Lennar shareholders, and it will accordingly reduce inventory on Lennar's books. Consistent with our commitment to increasing shareholder returns, we repurchased 3.4

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Roku lucratively rewarded shareholders from its initial public offering (IPO) through 2021 but has lost 85% of its value since peaking in the 2021 stock market bubble. The company is not generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP) profitable yet, but it generates free cash flow and has $2.1 times revenue.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. We celebrated the 25th anniversary of BlackRock becoming a public company, and we closed our acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners. trillion, 11.5

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JULY 31, 2024

We completed the previously announced acquisition of the Management Contract of Great Ajax, which was a residential mortgage REIT, which is now we're going to transition that into an opportunistic commercial mortgage REIT, which will help generate fee-related earnings for shareholders as we reposition the company and grow it.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We remain focused on the pursuit of breakthrough science and innovation as the source of sustainable long-term value creation for patients and shareholders. Together, we remain focused on delivering and sustaining value for patients, shareholders, and for all of our stakeholders today and well into the future.

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MAY 9, 2024

Apple Bank selected us given the strong value proposition of our comprehensive digital-first platform, our differentiated end-user experience, and the potential to drive efficiencies leveraging our technology. times net leverage, 2.7 We anticipate net leverage at year-end will be approximately 3.4 We ended the quarter with 3.9

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Clearlake Capital Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

“We are pleased to announce this transaction with Aptean, which will deliver significant and immediate value to our shareholders,” said James B. “Our Board has consistently evaluated the Company’s standalone plan against other strategic opportunities. El-Nazer, Co-Managing Partner at TA. Miller, Jr.,

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JULY 30, 2024

This simple straightforward transaction provides a clear-cut separation of global lottery from gaming and digital for IGT shareholders. billion, which provides a quicker realization of value upon closing, thereby eliminating IGT shareholder exposure to execution risk regarding integration efforts and synergies. Liquidity of $1.7

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Having navigated a virtual zero profit environment in Canadian cannabis and even flirting with insolvency in 2020, we now believe that SNDL has the requisite scale and platform optionality to create shareholder value. We are confident that his expertise and strategic vision will continue to drive our company's growth and success.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Second, we are on track to separate NCR into two public companies in the fourth quarter of 2023. Over the past three quarters, we have generated over $550 million in free cash flow, allowing us to reduce financial leverage ahead of the separation. And finally, NCR generated $154 million in free cash flow in the quarter.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to investing in tech stocks, many investors wrongly focus on share price as a perceived indicator of a given company's value. You should also consider metrics like market cap (the total value of a public company's shares outstanding) relative to the size of a business' total addressable market (TAM).

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MAY 5, 2024

Modest amounts of leverage are prudent for us. I've been a shareholder in companies. I suspect you have been, I suspect your listeners have been shareholders of companies that they've seen management make bad decisions when they're sitting on excess cash. I like that you caveated that. They're all really important.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Operator instructions] At this time, I'd like to turn the conference over to Weston Tucker, head of shareholder relations. Weston Tucker -- Head of Shareholder Relations Thanks, Katie, and good morning, and welcome to Blackstone's first-quarter conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. Please go ahead.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

And as we define the next large-scale cultural cuisine category, we are well positioned to create long-term value for our guests, team members and shareholders. This increase was due to leverage from higher sales, partially offset by incremental wage investments and the launch of steak on June 3. year-over-year to $231.4

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AUGUST 22, 2024

By leveraging ERNIE Speed and our ModelBuilder, we helped a healthcare automation solution provider to train and finetune an industry-specific model that enables automatically generated medical records for doctors. In the recruitment industry, we have collaborated with a recruiting service company. Last October, we launched ERNIE 4.0.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Capital return to shareholders is an important part of our ongoing commitment to strengthen total shareholder value. Now I would like to turn to the capital return to shareholders we announced in July. I want to take an opportunity to thank all our global employees for their hard work and dedication to deliver consistently.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

In fact, Jetti and Wana are already leveraging a joint salesforce to engage retail in New York as the brands of Canopy USA begin to realize opportunities and synergies together. We remain upbeat about Canopy USA and look forward to sharing future updates on this platform as we provide Canopy shareholders with this unique exposure to the U.S.

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JULY 20, 2023

Good morning, and thank you for joining our second-quarter earnings call and our very first as a public company. Over the last 135 years, we have established ourselves as the world's largest pure-play consumer health company. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Thibaut. What are the barriers to adoption?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We believe that creating moments of WOW for customers across selection, price, and service formed the foundation for long-term growth, profitability, and ultimately free cash flow, which serves as the basis of long-term shareholder value. And we see many paths to making this a worthwhile investment for shareholders.

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MAY 7, 2024

Tom brings four decades of public company experience to Nikola, from GM, to Amazon, to Eaton. In short, we will leverage partnerships to build volume across North America. Tom Okray -- Chief Financial Officer It's important for a growing company like Nikola to have access to capital.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

We achieved notable milestones this quarter, surpassing $1 billion in ARR and posting positive adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow for the first time as a public company, which speaks to the consistent execution of our strategy. Arcade is also leveraging our API integrations across several key partners.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As a result, we've delivered positive total operational returns each year since becoming a public company 30 years ago, successfully navigating a variety of economic environments. Our leverage, as measured by net debt to annualized pro forma adjusted EBITDA was a healthy 5.4 times, well within our target ratio or 5.2

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