The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter was actually 20.1%, which is higher than my 19% guidance. Even as higher tax rate lowered EPS by $0.02, we still hit the high end of my constant currency guidance. Lastly, my EPS guidance for Q3 assumes a base tax rate of 19%. Absolutely, we did better.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

We had a total estimated pre-tax statutory loss for our U.S. For the full year, we generated strong statutory pre-tax income of $378 million. Our first priority is to create shareholder value through our approximately 81% ownership stake in Enact.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

Discovery in the spinoff, it still has high leverage compared with T-Mobile. Warren Buffett outlined a potential income strategy for Berkshire shareholders that may apply here. Moreover, for income-seeking shareholders, Buffett proposed a better solution. In addition, the "sell-off" scenario also yields tax advantages.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

Currently, we are leveraging our unique user scenarios and high-quality data to explore AI applications that will potentially enhance the efficiency of freight matching and tracker capacity scheduling. This dividend will be payable on or around April 18, 2025, to shareholders on record as of April 7, 2025. million on the open market.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

The result included a 264 million after-tax charge for litigation expense as a result of a verdict the company intends to appeal. Excluding an approximate 265 million after-tax charge related to the litigation accrual, adjusted earnings for the quarter totaled 88.5 million, or a loss of $1.54 per diluted share, on sales of 1.9

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

This is thanks, in part, to Carnival's fantastic earnings performance, but another element may be even better news for shareholders. But one other element represents even better news for the company and shareholders because it may help Carnival address its biggest challenge today: reducing debt. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

When a big shareholder sells such a substantial amount, it can have a massive impact on the stock price. It's an effective tax planning strategy for stock investors. Donating shares to nonprofit organizations will provide two tax benefits. SEC filings show the centibillionaire sold 1.67 That said, he has other reasons to sell.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2025

A significant focus lies on leveraging innovations like AI to tailor consumer experiences. Notably, the tax rate dropped from 16.5% to 5.9%, thanks to a significant deferred tax benefit. Meanwhile, Nike continued prioritizing shareholder returns, allocating about $1.1 One-time events also left their mark.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2023

In his 1988 annual letter to shareholders, Buffett penned that when it comes to owning outstanding businesses with excellent management, "our favorite holding period is forever." As for why Buffett's love grew for Apple, the company returns an incredible amount of capital to its shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

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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. Our team remains focused on returning to our long-term growth algorithm, strengthening our profitability, continuing our strong cash flow, paying down our debt, and reducing our leverage ratio. McCormick remains a growth company.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

PDD leverages its huge short-video user base to offer livestreaming e-commerce services, an area where Alibaba was the incumbent. To this end, Alibaba is embracing a low-cost strategy and leveraging its logistics arm (Cainiao) and artificial intelligence to provide a better e-commerce experience to consumers.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2024

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. Since Berkshire's sitting on a substantial capital gain from its Apple investment, he decided to take some money off the table and pay taxes now instead of waiting until later.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

In addition to the opportunity to increase sales and ultimately realize further growth in the pOpshelf banner, we are also able to leverage learnings from this banner and apply them in our non-consumable categories in our Dollar General stores to further strengthen that offering for our DG customers. Net sales growth in the range of 3.4%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

We have a packed agenda lined up for the next three days, and we're excited to see our customers, partners, analysts, shareholders, and employees, all in person to share our passion for BI, AI, bitcoin, and innovation. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be creative to existing shareholders. Equity issuances.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and $1.2 The good news is that I saved some of the more potent aspects of the bullish argument for the end to justify at least holding Sirius XM if you are already a shareholder. It has posted an annual profit every year since 2010.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 20, 2024

For decades, ADM has leveraged its enormous global asset base to originate, process, and transport agricultural commodities between over 190 countries. As a BDC, Hercules Capital can avoid income taxes by distributing at least 90% of profits to shareholders as a dividend. The stock offers a 3.4% annually since 2020.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

for the full year, strong levels of NII per share and DNII per share to fund our record level of annual shareholder dividends, and a new record for NAV per share for the 10th consecutive quarter. per share, representing an additional 41% paid to our shareholders in excess of our regular monthly dividends.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. It will receive recurring monthly option payments, which will be used to pay predictable dividends to shareholders, and will additionally receive initial deposits and proceeds from the sale of fully developed homesites. million shares for over $2 billion in cash.

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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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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. Our pre-tax adjusted operating income was $1.6 per share on an after-tax basis for the third quarter of 2024 and $9.98 on an after-tax basis. Turning to Slide 3.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

billion and negative shareholder equity of $217.7 This ratio measures a company's financial leverage. You can calculate it by dividing the company's total debt by shareholder equity. DOCN shareholders equity (quarterly) data by YCharts. DOCN R&D to revenue (TTM) data by YCharts; TTM = trailing 12 months.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

It all starts with its master limited partnership structure, which is designed to pass income on to investors in a tax-advantaged manner. (A Moreover, its leverage is normally toward the low end of its peer group, so it is conservative on both an absolute and relative basis. A portion of the distribution is usually return of capital.)

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2024

That enables their shareholders to generate some extra income each year. AGNC Investments can boost its investment return by using leverage (borrowing money) to buy additional MBS. Energy Transfer Energy Transfer is a master limited partnership (MLP ), entities that send their investors a Schedule K-1 federal tax form each year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

in net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). One of the especially alluring qualities of Newmont is its attention to rewarding shareholders. At the end of 2023's third quarter, Agnico had an investment-grade balance sheet and a conservative ratio of 0.36 The stock sells for about 11.2

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2025

We will continue to leverage our digital conveniences to drive member loyalty in the future. Adjusted earnings per share for the quarter was $0.93, including an effective tax rate of 26.3%, driven by unplanned tax windfall. We also continued to return excess cash to shareholders. Membership fee income, or MFI, grew 7.9%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Meanwhile, the company said it was seeing selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) leverage, as 40% of its order volume is now benefiting from automation. During the quarter, the company bought back $500 million worth of shares from its largest shareholder, BC Partners.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2023

The company noted that current leverage is at 3.1 times adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), but that it should go down to 2.3 Vertiv also has a significant amount of debt, which stood at around $3 billion at the end of last quarter, against just $275 million in cash. Probably not.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

I also want to acknowledge the board of directors for providing a unique equity compensation structure that ensures my alignment with shareholder interest. Our board of directors has recently approved the resumption of our share repurchase program, leveraging our existing $50 million authorization.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2023

However, a crucial part of being an industrial conglomerate is using cash flow and financial leverage to acquire or internally develop new businesses. billion in net debt compared to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of about $9.5

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 3, 2024

In CEO Jack Dorsey's letter to shareholders, he said that the company would keep a cap on its number of employees at 12,000 "until we feel the growth of the business has meaningfully outpaced the growth of the company." In November, the company laid out plans to streamline its operations and become more efficient.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

However, the deal was very large, requiring the company to take on material leverage. It was a smaller deal and should be easier to digest, but it also makes clear that Oxy's push today is about competing with energy industry giants and not returning cash to shareholders via dividends. distribution yield.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 4, 2024

Energy Transfer is structured as a master limited partnership (MLP), so investors will get a K-1 and have unique tax advantages (and obligations). Approximately 90% of Energy Transfer's 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) is projected to come from fee-based activities.

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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. We generated $132 million of income before income taxes in Q3 and a $70 million of net income attributable to Coupang stockholders.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 16, 2023

Basically, through thick and thin, the MLP has made sure that its shareholders receive a steady and growing quarterly disbursement. For example, its ratio of debt to EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) is generally among the lowest of its closest peer group. That isn't the only thing to consider.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2025

billion (8.4%) Net earnings attributable to common shareholders $127.8 million (14.6%) Return on adjusted tangible shareholders' equity 8.0% Significant one-time factors that benefited the firm included a drop in its effective tax rate to 9.4% per share from Q4, underscoring its commitment to shareholder returns.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

First, REITs are designed to pass income on to shareholders in a tax-advantaged fashion. Very often leverage is employed in an effort to enhance returns. Is there more to come as AGNC Investment's stock price bounces up against the $10 price level? What does AGNC Investment do?

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