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leverage ratio , which falls in the middle of its 2.75-3.25 While MPLX doesn't have quite as high a credit rating, at BBB, its leverage ratio is only slightly higher at 3.3, While MPLX doesn't have quite as high a credit rating, at BBB, its leverage ratio is only slightly higher at 3.3, target range. which is well below the 4.0

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APRIL 20, 2024

The other important aspect to look at when it comes to the safety of a company's dividend is its leverage, which is its net debt divided by its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Altria ended 2023 with leverage of 2.2 Looking at its balance sheet, Vector ended 2023 with leverage of 2.6

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fourth-quarter results were also solid, with revenue per passenger cruise day up 21% from 2019 and overall revenue up 34% from 2019. from 2019 levels. As the business recovers and Norwegian's debt leverage improves, the stock should continue to move higher. Yield, the industry term for pricing, was up 8.2%

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just because the application is in the majority of the Fortune 500, investors do not, and can not, know to what extent ChatGPT is being leveraged. To get an idea of how serious its technology is, consider that companies such as Cisco , Lockheed Martin , and Novartis are all leveraging Palantir across their organizations.

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APRIL 27, 2024

Metric Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023 Stock Buybacks $66.1 AAPL Net Total Long Term Debt (Quarterly) data by YCharts Apple doesn't rely on leverage to operate its business. Therefore, Apple's true "cash position" is even better than its leverage ratios would indicate. billion on buybacks and $72.5

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MAY 17, 2024

With greater scale the company can afford to advertise more aggressively as well as exercise leverage with its distributors and retail partners. billion worth of net income in pandemic-crimped 2020, down a modest 14% from 2019's bottom line. billion was within sight of 2019's $10.5 In this vein, Coca-Cola earned nearly $7.8

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MAY 7, 2024

We generated $340 million of EBITDAR in the quarter on GGR market share that was above both the prior quarter and above our 2019 exit. In the casino, our mass drop per day in April increased 30% versus April 2019. Meanwhile, our leverage profile continues to improve as does our outlook on future free cash flow.

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JULY 12, 2023

Cornell's ILR Labor Action Tracker logged 417 strikes and seven lockouts across the US in 2022 -- up 52% from 2021 -- as historically low unemployment rates have boosted workers' leverage for improving wages and benefits. UAW leaders recently laid out their top bargaining issues ahead of contracts that expire in September.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2019, the drugmaker forged a partnership with Atomwise, a private biotech dedicated to discovering new medicines using AI, wherein it agreed to pay as much as $550 million in milestone awards and up-front fees.

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MAY 12, 2024

This combination has helped Chevron's upstream earnings per barrel continually rise, from roughly $7 per barrel in 2019 to around $10 per barrel today. Improved well performance is coming even as unit costs remain flat. Chevron's capital management, meanwhile, is exemplary, something Buffett no doubt admires.

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MAY 18, 2024

Data by YCharts Amazon has made many millionaires over the years, with its share price nearly doubling since 2019. However, Apple could arguably fare better in the consumer space of AI over the long term by leveraging the popularity of its products.

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APRIL 19, 2024

It forged a partnership with OpenAI in 2019, investing $1 billion in the AI start-up when it needed a funding source, and it invested another $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023, shortly after that company launched ChatGPT, bringing its grand total to an estimated $13 billion that it has invested in OpenAI.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

billion in 2019 and hit a nadir of $1.6 billion, which is still materially below 2019 levels. Leverage has also been reduced, with debt-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) at roughly 3.2 To be fair, capital spending has fallen. It peaked at $4.2 billion in 2022.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

CFO Monish Patolawala noted in earnings calls that "volume gives us the best leverage." By leverage, he means the ability to grow margins as sales increase. In 2019, it attempted to restructure the business by reducing its segments from five to four. Image source: Getty Images.

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MAY 6, 2024

Nio's deliveries rose 81% in 2019, 113% in 2020, and 109% in 2021. billion) in 2019 to 20.3 Nio's persistent losses and high leverage could limit its gains as long as interest rates stay elevated. For a subscription fee, drivers can swap out their depleted batteries for fully charged ones at its battery-swapping stations.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In addition, closed-end funds can use leverage to attempt to generate outsized returns and dividends for investors. Using leverage Finally, let's look at leverage, specifically how the fund has increased borrowing through reverse-repurchase agreements whereby an asset is sold under an agreement to repurchase it at a higher price.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

Lastly, it continued to rack up steep losses while increasing its leverage with more convertible debt offerings. First, it repeatedly reduced its production targets as it grappled with supply chain constraints. Second, it issued several safety-related recalls. With an enterprise value of $17.5

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cimpress CEO Robert Keane credited the company's relative outperformance to a combination of revenue growth, margin expansion, advertising leverage, and lower operating expenses. This was the first quarter in which the category has grown since the company began its strategic transformation in fiscal 2019. per share on revenue of $892.1

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MAY 23, 2024

BMS is dealing with the loss of patent protection for its cancer medication Revlimid, which it gained through its acquisition of Celgene in 2019. The company has a long tradition of creating value for shareholders by expanding drug labels, creating unique marketing campaigns, and leveraging its extensive infrastructure to gain market share.

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MAY 30, 2024

Had you invested $1,000 in this " Magnificent Seven " stock in May 2019, you'd be sitting on almost $3,100 today. Shareholders hope that profitability continues to improve as fixed costs are better leveraged. Even though Alphabet sports a market capitalization of $2.2 After posting operating income of $1.7 operating margin in Q1.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Aligned with our capital allocation priorities, we plan to use the proceeds from this transaction to repay debt, which will accelerate our timeline to reach our debt leverage objective,” L3Harris said in a statement. Morgan Stanley and Moelis & Co were financial advisers to L3Harris, while J.P. Source: Yahoo!

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (Forecast) Revenue growth 20% 38% 22% 9% 2% Data source: Amazon, analysts' estimates. Amazon still grew a lot faster than Apple If Amazon matches analysts' expectations for 2023, its revenue will have grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17% from 2019. and Amazon wasn't one of them.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

The oil giant began working on that strategy in 2019. The oil giant reiterated that its strategy would more than double its earnings potential from its 2019 baseline by 2027, assuming oil averages $60 per barrel. Exxon has already captured $9 billion in structural cost reductions since 2019.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

Kroger Berkshire Hathaway first purchased Kroger (NYSE: KR) in late 2019, and similar to Apple, the idea came from one of Buffett's lieutenants. For comparison, Kroger's net leverage ratio at the end of its fiscal first quarter 2023 was a much-healthier 1.3 Image source: The Motley Fool. times EBITDA. times EBITDA.

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APRIL 27, 2024

billion cigarettes in 2019. AT&T's balance sheet is heavily leveraged because of this. While the use of leverage isn't unusual in the cellphone space, its debt-to-equity ratio of 1.3 Altria is a tobacco company that sells cigarettes in the United States, where smoking has been increasingly frowned upon.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Free Fire was released in December 2017 and became the most-downloaded game globally by 2019. This segment is also showing really high operating leverage, with Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $148.5 Moreover, all three businesses look to be gaining operating leverage, with profit growth inflecting higher than revenue growth.

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MARCH 14, 2024

HalseyPoint was launched in July 2019 to issue and manage CLOs. To date, it has raised seven CLOs totalling over $3.2bn focused on US leveraged loans and high-yield bonds. In the coming weeks, HalseyPoint will be co-branded as Sagard | HalseyPoint to reflect the new partnership.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Its net loss more than doubled from $697 million in 2019 to $1.5 For instance, the tech company has leveraged its infrastructure and consumer base to launch new services like online groceries, food delivery, streaming, etc. Another vital aspect of Coupang's ongoing profit growth is to improve efficiency and operating leverage.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

CrowdStrike has retained more than 97% of its customers each quarter since 2019. The dollar-based net retention rate (a measurement of how much customers increase spending from a year earlier) for CrowdStrike has been over 120%, also since 2019. Because once customers sign up, they do two things: They don't leave.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It did something similar following the Anadarko acquisition in 2019 and the subsequent drop in oil prices in 2020. That leverage puts added pressure on management if oil prices decline in the future, making it less profitable to drill. The company now holds a significant amount of debt.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

Carnival (NYSE: CCL) is one of the companies that's still being affected by the pandemic, both by the aftereffects of restrictions and by the financial leverage it took to get through the pandemic. In fiscal 2019, occupancy was 106.9%, so pushing any higher than today seems unlikely.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This reception, combined with the strong demand environment we continue to experience across all three of our brands, has enabled us to successfully absorb an 18% increase in capacity in 2023 versus 2019 levels at record pricing levels. billion, up an incredible 56% compared to 2019. But none of this is new news. As we generated $1.9

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MAY 1, 2024

leveraging its talent across brands to help share unique learnings and experiences. You'll recall that the first phase of our journey to become the leading global digital restaurant company began in earnest in 2019. This system allows us to leverage insights into consumer behavior across our brands in the U.S. and Taco Bell U.S.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Successfully leveraging its popular brand in this high-margin service space could provide a great source of revenue growth over the long run. That's one reason it acquired Pandora in 2019, but that business remains a small part of its overall operations. Second, Chewy is expanding its business to include veterinary care.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It's the rare market winner in this space, largely because it didn't have to resort to leverage or dilution to get through the initial pandemic lull. Its share count is only marginally ahead of where it was in 2019 and its long-term debt is reasonably higher. Imax hasn't fared as well as Cinemark. Cinemark should still be fine.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

More importantly, its top-line showing was 33% ahead of where it was during the same seasonally potent summertime quarter in 2019. With geopolitical events weighing on near-term sailings, its projected occupancy percentage for the current quarter is well shy of where it was in the holiday quarter of 2019. a share in the fourth quarter.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Investors have shown a lot of interest in thematic exchange-traded funds (ETFs) since 2019. The pharma industry is looking for ways to leverage artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, virtual reality, and automated experiments to overcome these challenges. Recursion Pharmaceuticals: A novel approach to drug discovery The U.S.

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