The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

I firmly believe Duluth Trading is uniquely positioned to expand its reach, and I am excited to leverage my experience to drive our next phase of profitable growth. million and leveraged 250 basis points to 44.3% EPS was weighed down by noncash depreciation expenses from infrastructure investments. million or 5.2%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Our AWS customers are also quite excited about leveraging GenAI to change the customer experiences and businesses. And today, we announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development and leveraging company's internal data. Worldwide operating income was $15.3

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

This means we're growing the large majority of our business and driving improved operating leverage across it. This focus on efficiency is translating into improved operating leverage despite continued elevated inflation. This brings me to our final priority, which is our deliberate and balanced approach to capital allocation.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is translating into improved operating leverage, as evidenced by the adjusted EBITDA margin expansion we delivered in 2023. For the quarter, capital expenditures were 4.6 billion, with capital investments of 5.6 Full year capital investment was 23.6 higher depreciation.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

With respect to our manufacturing capabilities and capital investment plans, during the quarter, we initiated local Xi system production in China, allowing us to participate in tenders that require a domestically produced system. We also completed the transfer of X system production to our East Coast hub near Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

This has enabled us to focus on our core strengths while leveraging third parties to add scale and capacity when and where we need it without the requirement to maintain extensive infrastructure or invest ahead of growth. Full year gross margin was 27%, and cash gross margin adding back noncash depreciation expenses and costs was 35%.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

This growth was supported by a net sales increase of 5% at an enterprise level and solid operating leverage that resulted in an increase of 7% in comparable operating income, representing an enterprise-comparable operating margin of nearly 33%. billion in operating cash flow, and we're able to reduce our net leverage ratio by nearly 0.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

But leveraging our multiple scenario planning, we swiftly -- we responded by launching attractive offers to drive sales. This was primarily due to operating leverage derived from higher sales and ongoing benefit of cost structure rebasing efforts. Rental expense and depreciation improved year over year. Thanks, Joey.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As we enter 2024, while we continue to operate from a position of strength, leveraging our points of differentiation and strong contracted backlog, the continuation of Chinese subsidization and dumping practices has caused a significant collapse in cell and module pricing. Mark Widmar -- Chief Executive Officer All right. Thank you, Alex.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Yield is our single biggest lever for margin improvement going forward, and we have multiple initiatives underway to leverage the gains we're making in service quality and operating excellence. Depreciation expense in the quarter increased by 24%, or $12, million driven by our investments in the LTL network.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Revenue was at the higher end of our guidance, and we had strong EPS upside as a result of our ongoing relentless focus on driving operating leverage and expense management, including comfortably meeting our $3 billion cost savings commitment for fiscal year '23. 2023 was definitely a year when we did what we said we would do and more.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Included in adjusted gross profit is a one-time favorable noncash adjustment to depreciation expense worth approximately $9.5 We note this as a temporary delay, which will impact the first and second quarters and be reflected as a higher working capital investment in accounts receivable. million, impacting non-GAAP EPS by $0.06

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

As reflected in the reconciliation we've provided in the earnings documents posted to our website, cash COGS per metric ton excludes depreciation and amortization, as well as cost of goods associated with byproduct sales and other noncash factors. Arun Viswanathan -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst Right, thanks for that.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

The focus is to leverage FDJ's full suite of eInstant games in Italy and IGT's full suite of eInstants in France. At the same time, we made important investments in growth, especially in the B2B iCasino and iLottery space. Net debt leverage of 3.1

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Over the last several years, we've been implementing improved systems for managing both personnel and process safety, leveraging best practices from across our company and industry, our own and others. Overall, our portfolio of low-carbon investments is expected to generate returns of approximately 15%.

Capital 130

Capital Shareholders Leveraging Portfolios 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This underscores our confidence and the returns will be generated by our capital investment programs in our portfolio. LVS has invested $15 billion in Macao, which is the most important land-based market in the world. It sounds like transportation bottlenecks are no longer really the issue in Macao, if it's the RMB depreciation?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

This new action will offset about $1 billion in depreciation and amortization, which means that relative to 2022, our automotive fixed costs will be down $2 billion on a net basis as we exit '24. So we are definitely leveraging that technology because that's going to really help us get costs down. And it's not by accident.

Capital 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

It's a great example of how we're leveraging our unique omni capabilities to remove friction for customers. They demonstrate what our team is capable of when we're laser-focused on the member and customer, disciplined on cost, and leveraging the technology investments we've made.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

The sequential reduction in pro forma gross margin primarily reflects higher fixed costs including depreciation expense for expanded manufacturing capacity and higher costs associated with the launch of da Vinci 5. Pro forma gross margin for the first quarter of 2024 was 67.6%, compared with 67.2% Pro forma other income was $72.5

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2023

We're pleased that WD-40 Specialist is fully leveraging our most iconic assets: the blue and yellow brand with a little red top. Our goal is to drive our cost of doing business, which is our total operating expenses excluding depreciation and amortization, toward 30% of net sales over time.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

ARA has supplied a catalyst for growth, and our goal is to leverage it to help create a position of strength for the country, both now and after the term of the incentives. We are featured with the work done by the Biden administration to provide a solid legislative foundation for domestic solar manufacturing. and we welcome it.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

During the year, we used this cash to support capex investments and returned 326 million to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases. We are in a strong financial position, ending the year with a net leverage ratio of 1.6 times, which is in the middle of our one to two times range we like to manage the business.

Liabilities 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Within each of these markets, we see significant opportunities that can leverage our know-how and core technology that have been developed over the last 25-plus years of Vuzix. Depreciation and amortization expense increased to $1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2023, versus $0.4 million in the prior year's period.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

The Canadian dollar depreciated against the U.S. This had a positive impact on investment returns with a foreign currency gain of $25 billion. Transaction-related expenses, which decreased by $151 million, vary from year to year according to the number, size and complexity of our investing activities. We own a 16.3%

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