The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

If you're seeking passive income from your investment portfolio, Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is one stock that may have caught your attention. Hercules Capital invests in venture-backed start-ups, and offers an ultra-high dividend payout of over 10% annually.

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Axial

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last quarter, we surveyed the Axial Investment Bank membership on the topic of exit preparation. We are grateful to all the Investment Bankers who contributed to the survey and provided useful color for this series on exit preparation. The 18 Investment Bankers below are quoted in today’s feature.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

One very big reason is leverage. That's a shocking increase and suggests that Carnival's balance sheet is highly leveraged. Royal Caribbean's leverage was coming down more quickly, having peaked at around 8 times. At that point, Carnival's leverage was still on the rise. Should you invest $1,000 in Carnival Corp.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

The main factor holding back dividend growth in recent years has been the company's heavy investments to expand its midstream systems. While those investments grew its earnings, its leverage ratio also increased. Leverage has fallen from 4.6 Leverage has fallen from 4.6 at the end of 2020 to 3.25 by mid-2023.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given the immense potential that AI will bring, investors must find (and invest in) the right company to benefit from this tailwind. While many may search for the next big winner, searching for well-established companies that could leverage AI to the next level may be a better strategy. Let's start with e-commerce.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Investcorp, a leading global alternative investment firm, today announced that its infrastructure platform will join a consortium including Orascom Construction (consortium leader) and Metito that is developing a large-scale seawater treatment and water transportation project in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Operating a telecommunications business requires a huge amount of capital investment. Verizon's leverage, however, is higher than that of its two main competitors. Verizon's leverage has fallen dramatically over the past decade, so it is moving in the right direction on this front.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 7, 2024

The company benefited from its investment-grade bond rating (A-/A3) and the expectation that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates in 2024. It will use the rest to help fund growth capital investments while maintaining a strong liquidity profile. (It Its leverage ratio was 3.0 It had about $3.8

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

That's important because during energy downturns Chevron takes on leverage so that it can continue to support its business and its dividend. More customers means more revenue and more opportunity for regulator-approved capital investments. Should you invest $1,000 in NextEra Energy right now? dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Today, most of the best investment opportunities for new projects have been exploited. Investors are no longer quite as positive about funding capital investments in the midstream sector despite the still vital nature of the services it provides to the global economy. In 2023, capital spending is projected to be around $2.3

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2024

It is very easy to get so caught up in the income stream from the dividend that you overlook the investment risk you are taking on. Enterprise has an investment-grade rated balance sheet A reliable cash-generating business is important, but a good business foundation isn't enough. distribution yield.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Temel and the new team will advise private equity clients in transactions such as leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations, as well as structured preferred and growth equity investments. In his new role, Temel will serve as a founding member of the firm’s new Boston office.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The oil and gas company has a two-pronged strategy to drive that earnings growth: cost savings and capital investments. It's pursuing several opportunities to reduce costs, including leveraging its growing scale to capture additional cost savings and modernizing its information technology systems.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2023

That makes them look like compelling investment opportunities right now. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has been one of the casualties of this crunch, but this real estate investment trust (REIT) operates using a very different model from its sector peers. While its leverage ratio of 5.2 and the company's hometown of San Diego.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

When the energy market improves again, as it always has historically, leverage is reduced. If you can handle a bit of contrarian investing, Enterprise could be a great income investment for you in January. But that should change over the next year or so, with capital investment picking back up to historical levels.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

While it can be tempting to invest in young EV companies hoping to grow into industry giants, that's a risky proposition. It's capital-intensive and prone to severe downturns. Under CEO Mary Barra, GM has maintained a rock-solid balance sheet and greatly improved profitability, all while investing heavily in EVs and autonomous driving.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

The cash that miners receive is usually put toward capital investment projects, like the construction of new mines or the upgrading of existing ones. With that quick overview, it is probably more appropriate to view Wheaton as a company with a portfolio of mine investments. That's a step change that investors shouldn't ignore.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

real estate investment trusts [REITs] and utilities) traditionally known for providing low volatility and market-topping income. Since Treasury bonds have minimal risk to invested principal, they've been a popular choice for income seekers this year. billion investment portfolio consisted of $160.9 Image source: Getty Images.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ashton Thomas Private Wealth, a leading diversified financial advisory firm that specializes in advising affluent individuals and families, foundations, and business entities, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to join Arax Investment Partners , RedBird Capital Partners’ wealth management platform company.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 26, 2024

There's a good reason for that, however, because operating a utility is a capital-intensive business. There's no way around that, noting also that the utility tends to use more leverage than some of its larger peers. The sharp rise in interest rates will increase Black Hills' costs going forward. population growth.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Avoiding the need to tap the capital markets The most prominent benefit for miners from working with Wheaton, or peers like Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE: FNV) , is that they don't have to sell stock or issue debt. The payment it made covered around 78% of the capital investment Vale was making in the Salobo mine.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 9, 2024

Josh Scott of BetaKit reports C DPQ invests $136 million CAD into AppDirect lending program for tech advisors: Canadian-founded, San Francisco-based AppDirect has secured $136 million CAD ($100 million USD) from existing investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to expand its AppDirect Capital program.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Cathay Capital Private Equity, a leading international investment firm, announces the final closing of $270 million for its latest growth private equity fund, Small Cap IV, to invest in healthcare, consumer, and technology companies across Europe, North America and Asia.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This is a case of a utility getting even more boring, since regulated utilities have monopolies in the regions they serve but have to get capital investment plans and rates approved by the government. Today, Duke Energy has a capital investment budget of roughly $65 billion dollars.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Launched as a services-centric fund on the heels of one of Maddix Capital’s most successful investments to date (AK Masonry, a leading masonry and concrete contractor, earlier this year ), Maddix Services is a target $125+m closed-end fund – $100M in equity plus a $25M opportunistic credit piece.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2023

But that will require a lot of capital investment before there's any substantive revenue coming in. Meanwhile, Intel is looking to preserve cash for its capital investment push, which was highlighted by its recent dividend cut. That, meanwhile, has to be juxtaposed against the company's leveraged balance sheet.

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H.I.G. Growth Partners

AUGUST 14, 2023

Growth”), the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, is pleased to announce that it has completed a strategic growth investment in Worksuite, a leading end-to-end freelancer operations management cloud software platform, which helps organizations build and manage their own contingent workforce networks.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lots more shopping ahead Agree Realty has grown into a decent-sized real estate investment trust ( REIT ). It has invested $8.1 It has a fortress-like balance sheet with a strong investment-grade credit rating backed by low leverage ratios and well-staggered, long-term, fixed-rate debt with no material maturities until 2028.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When energy prices recover, as they always have historically, the company reduces its leverage to prepare for the next downturn. Duke's regulated operations have monopolies in the regions they serve and, in return, must get their rates and capital investment plans approved by the government. Brookfield Renewable Corp.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

If you can look past short-term troubles and identify stocks with long-term potential, you can produce solid investment results. The company's parks and cruises are doing well, so much so that Disney will double its capital investments over the next decade to $60 billion. Walt Disney Disney has a lot to figure out.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Allianz Global Investors and Dutch development bank FMO have agreed one of the largest “blended finance” funds on record, raising $1.1bn to invest in loans that help emerging and frontier countries meet sustainable development targets. FMO will also source the loans to invest in.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2023

The rest is likely to be used to pay off other Dominion debts, helping to improve the utility's overall leverage metrics. First, Dominion's leverage is a concern among investors. Investing in such assets on the regulated side of the business is far more predictable than doing so in the competitive power space. It will use $2.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Free cash flow is counted after a business makes capital investments, so that number has already factored in the money AT&T invests to maintain and build its networks. Where AT&T might lose your interest Everyone has different investing goals, which means a dividend isn't enough for many others.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

We are excited to partner with Derek and the entire Kodiak team to build on this strong foundation with investments in both organic and inorganic growth, and look forward to partnering with Crowe as co-investors going forward.” The firm was founded in 1992 and manages assets and investments totaling $139bn. Source: Consulting.us

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

of its investment portfolio, it's Berkshire's sixth-largest stock holding. Then the pandemic hit, and low oil prices coupled with a heavily leveraged balance sheet forced Occidental to make a dividend cut. Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway , has been buying shares of oil giant Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) hand over fist.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2023

Now, with safe yields closer to 5%, these investment options are not as appealing. Bigger moves this opens up Higher rates materially change the equation when it comes to investing in companies. For example, higher rates make it more costly for companies to justify capital investment projects since debt will be more costly to manage.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio? Explore Types, Benefits and How to Get Started Are you tired of the traditional investment options that seem to be a rollercoaster ride and often offer limited downside protection? If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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