The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Finally, Carnival lifted its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) guidance for the full year to $6 billion -- that's up by nearly $200 million from guidance, given a few months ago, and represents a 40% increase from last year. Carnival also has prepaid debt, for example prepaying $7.3

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.47, down from 1.66 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last six years. Income tax expense, an effective rate of 20% and ex-items was $3 million for the quarter. On a GAAP basis, we recorded a tax expense of $4.7 last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) also rose 5% to nearly $2.44 It ended the quarter with leverage of 3x, which it defines as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. It produced distributable cash flow (DCF) of $1.96

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

This platform allows them to purchase ad inventory from multiple channels, set up, run, and optimize ad campaigns, and serve ads to the right audience on the relevant platform in a cost-efficient manner to increase advertisers' return on investment. The Trade Desk's earnings of $0.26 per share beat the consensus estimate of $0.22

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2023

billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). Chief Investment Officer Mark Manduca said in an interview that the company's debt-to-EBITDA ratio would be within investment-grade range by the end of the year, potentially setting the company up for an acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.66, down from 1.76 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years. We will remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet and advancing to our stated goal of achieving a leverage ratio of 1.5 million or 10%. last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

The business passes much of its cash flow to investors to cover their portion of taxes. What makes MPLX stand out among its peers is its strong rates of return, capital discipline, and generous returns to shareholders. MPLX has emerged as one of the best in the energy infrastructure business.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 28, 2023

Yesterday, a number of analysts raised their price targets on the stock in the wake of the second-quarter earnings report, commenting on the strong 2026 guidance, which calls for $7 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) by that year. 10 stocks we like better than Carnival Corp.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Then the pandemic hit, and low oil prices coupled with a heavily leveraged balance sheet forced Occidental to make a dividend cut. It's investing heavily to build out direct air capture (DAC) projects that would suck carbon dioxide from the air for permanent sequestration underground. That's a 25% increase from last year's level.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Navigating the challenges and requirements of data collection, however, need not be as onerous and taxing as those bemoaning the regulators would have you believe. Prioritizing this mindset can help shift the approach toward reporting and ensure teams are adequately leveraging the information they are collecting.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2023

It reported a better-than-expected adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) profit of $681 million, though it's still losing money on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis. The company said customer deposits reached a record of $7.2 billion-$4.25

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

The company also dramatically improved its adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) margin by 14 percentage points to 37% in the quarter. The company is leveraging next-generation AI to give better and more relevant recommendations to users.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) came in at $681 million, toward the high end of its guidance, and a significant improvement from a loss of $928 million in the quarter a year ago. If Carnival can hit those goals, the stock should be a winner over the next few years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And following the Fitch upgrade in July, our balance sheet now has two investment-grade ratings and our dividend yield is in line with the S&P 500. Around the world, we're continuing to develop our JV partnerships and leveraging our strengths. And we expect to grow earnings 30% over last year, with pre-tax income of $1.4

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2023

The stock yields 3% at the current share price, giving retirees a solid return on investment they can trust. Additionally, the 73% dividend payout ratio and stellar balance sheet, leveraged at just 1.6 It's one of only two publicly traded companies with an AAA corporate credit rating -- that's higher than the U.S. government!

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

Rack stores that were opened last year are performing well delivering a solid return on investment while attracting new customers. on strong regular price sales, leverage on higher sales, and slight improvements in shrink. Income tax expense of $42 million or 25.7% of pre-tax earnings, was higher than the 17.2%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

In the second quarter, we once again delivered exceptional results, demonstrating the strength of our category-defining brand, our clear leadership position in Mediterranean, our powerful unit economic engine and the return on investments we continue to make in our business and our people. million or 26.5% of revenue versus $44.6

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

billion in cash taxes. As of the of the end the third quarter, our unsecured leverage stands at 2.50 And today, we're announcing an update to our long-term leverage target of 2.0 And as we've said many times, we will consider share buybacks but our unsecured leverage metric reaches 2.25 Cash tax is going up.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

The interests of our shareholders, clients, and employees will always be well served by Core Labs' resilient culture which relies on innovation, leveraging technology to solve problems, and dedicated customer services. Additionally, the financial results for the second quarter of 2023 include; one, a tax benefit of approximately 11.6

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 6, 2024

I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's conference, Julie Kerekes, senior managing director of global tax and investor relations. Julie Kerekes -- Treasurer and Senior Managing Director of Global Tax and Investor Relations Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Please proceed, Ms. million, up from $22.7

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

We're on track to fully deliver in line with guidance on all aspects of the combination through efficiencies, cost synergies, and free cash flow impact leveraging operational best practices from Aon business services. And then my follow-up question, the tax rate in the quarter went to above 22%. And fourth, bottom line growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This is driven by a noncash after-tax net realized investment loss of $1 billion or $3.69 In the third quarter, we also recorded other after-tax net special item charges of $162 million or $0.58 We will leverage Dr. Carlton's study as we continue to engage in fact-based discussions about these critical issues.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Our loss before income tax increased to $39.6 By offering the right products at affordable price points and leveraging our reliable logistics network, we are well-positioned to service the African e-commerce market. We are confident that we have the right strategy in place and are beginning to see real tangible return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Looking by region, it is evident where we have strength to leverage and where we need to improve. For taxes, our fourth quarter adjusted effective tax rate was 15.8%. The full-year adjusted effective tax rate was 23.4%. The full-year adjusted effective tax rate was 23.4%. We expect an adjusted tax rate of 25.5%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations, sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, rightsize the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. million on pre-tax income of $13.4 million.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

We also need to ensure we're leveraging the broader ecosystem and working more closely with our key partners. On operating expenses, we need to improve return on investment. For R&D, while innovation requires investment, those investments must be focused, efficient, and offer high return. billion and 1.35

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Adjusted gross margin expanded 290 basis points in Q1, adding to our strong track record in this space and freeing up resources to invest in the brand activation plans I described earlier. In parallel, we are taking action to structurally change our cost base, leveraging the unique opportunity we have in front of us as we exit TSAs.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And lastly, in the fourth quarter alone, we announced nearly $8 billion of new development joint ventures and completed over $1 billion of equity issuance under our ATM bringing total capital sources raised during the year to more than $12 billion and reducing pro forma leverage below our year-end 2023 target. and up 7.7%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Excluding a nonrecurring, nonincome tax refund in the prior-year quarter, free cash flow was up approximately 25%. That increases the speed to market, reduces the investments we need to make to bring it live. Second quarter free cash flow was $60.9 million compared to $64.6 million in the second quarter of 2023. Your line is open.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We delivered these results while investing almost $800 million to sustain productivity and accelerate our organic growth initiatives in our highly profitable core businesses. After-tax return on invested capital is expected to remain firmly at 30%-plus, and we expect strong free cash flows again, with conversion greater than net income.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

operating margin and pre-tax income of $5.2 We generated free cash flow of $2 billion while investing 5.3 billion back into the business, and we improved our leverage by two full turns and reinstated our quarterly dividend. Return on invested capital was 13.4%, a 5-point improvement from 2022. We delivered an 11.6%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

That's a tremendous opportunity for us to leverage our extensive capabilities and consumer insights to develop innovative new products to better serve the needs of our consumers. Turning to taxes. As can be expected, there are several unique items impacting our second-quarter effective tax rate with our IPO in May.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

Today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements about our strategies and business plans, as well as our belief, expectation, and guidance about our business prospects such as the future growth of our business, revenue, take rate, profitability and return on investments, and share repurchases.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Key wins in this area for Q3 included Core Wheat, a specialized GPU cloud provider, deploying networking nodes at Equinix leveraging our unique multi-cloud on-ramps and network connectivity across multiple metros. This drives improved bottom-line profitability and higher return on invested capital. Please refer to Slide 8.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

We're winning in the marketplace by leveraging our scale and continuing to foster a growth mindset. including leveraging digital and tech-enabled innovations to ultimately contribute to our earnings growth. due to higher tax payments, cycling working capital benefits from the prior year and higher capital expenditures.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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. of EPS growth was driven by last year's high tax comp, along with benefits from net interest and a lower share count.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our revenue growth management execution capabilities give us a distinct advantage, and we are leveraging these capabilities to ensure we have the right product in the right package in the right channel and at the right price points to meet consumers where they are. Leveraging data to drive better decision-making is key to improving execution.

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