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APRIL 23, 2024

The big-time payout is on a very firm foundation, thanks to the company's steady cash flow and conservative financial profile. The natural gas pipeline giant recently showcased its commitment to maintaining a conservative financial profile by adjusting its targeted- leverage ratio. times to its leverage ratio this year.

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MARCH 1, 2024

The company beat revenue estimates, made progress on the bottom line, and offered first-quarter guidance that was better than the analysts' consensus view. The company also reported another quarter with average unit volumes of $2.9 As of noon ET, the stock was up 30.3%. Image source: Getty Images. million to $1.8 per share to $0.24

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Kinder Morgan made a hard call Cutting a dividend is not something that most companies want to do, but sometimes it is the right choice. This was done because management had to choose between paying the dividend or putting money to work in capital investment projects that would grow the company.

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APRIL 12, 2024

More often than not, investors interested in Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are generally most interested in their dividends. Neither company is in strong growth mode, and both stocks carry relatively high yields. The dividends of both companies are very well covered at this point. billion.

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MARCH 24, 2024

Further, the company has increased its payment for 25 straight years. The company offers a higher 8.3% It has two business segments: Logistics & Storage : The company transports, distributes, stores, and markets crude oil, refined products, and other hydrocarbons. leverage ratio , which falls in the middle of its 2.75-3.25

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MAY 21, 2024

Testing and calibration equipment company Transcat (NASDAQ: TRNS) easily beat quarterly expectations and forecast continued strength into its new fiscal year. The company earned $0.66 Consolidated adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) grew by 29.8%

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MARCH 17, 2024

It's doing so because of a significant increase in earnings and cash flow as the commercial aerospace industry recovers from the travel restrictions imposed during the worst of the pandemic. The table below shows the company's improvements in earnings and cash flow. times Wall Street earnings estimates and 8.1

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MAY 9, 2024

Shares of Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY) were gaining today after the disruptive eyewear company posted better-than-expected top-line results in its first-quarter earnings report and raised its guidance for the year. As a result, the stock was up 14.6% as of 11:27 a.m. Image source: Getty Images. million to $22.4

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APRIL 20, 2024

yield, and the company has consistently increased its dividend payment for the past 15 years. When looking into the safety of a dividend, the first place to look is the company's cash-flow statement. The reason is that dividends are paid from a company's free cash flow. Altria ended 2023 with leverage of 2.2

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APRIL 10, 2024

The company also has a strong balance sheet with 3.3 times leverage and a distribution-coverage ratio of 1.6 Leverage for MPLX is its consolidated net debt divided by its twelve-month trailing adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). A coverage ratio of over 1.0

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MAY 11, 2024

The company has evolved significantly since then, spinning off the GXO Logistics contract logistics business and the RXO truck brokerage businesses, but XPO's recent earnings report showed why the stock continues to look like a no-brainer buy right now. in the quarter two years before, showing a dramatic improvement.

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MAY 10, 2024

The analyst raised his adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) estimates through 2026. Finally, he said the shares could double within three years, which is the type of comment that will attract interest in a stock today. Is Dutch Bros a buy? million, or a margin of 9%.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Enterprise Product Partners (NYSE: EPD) is one of the largest midstream companies in North America, with an integrated system that transports natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, and refined products. Even better, the company has increased its distribution every year for the past 25 years. billion to $3.75

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APRIL 28, 2024

It was able to steadily chip away at its leverage ratio , driving it down to its 4.0 That allowed the company to steadily bring its distribution back up to its pre-pandemic level, which it achieved early last year. It expects leverage to be toward the low end of its target range this year. That strategy has paid off.

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MAY 5, 2024

Shares of DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) were slightly down following better-than-expected earnings results for the first quarter. The sports betting company's revenue and adjusted operating profit beat the Street's consensus, and management expects more excellent results for the full year. Benchmark Co. What is the stock's upside?

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MAY 4, 2024

Shares of Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) were among the winners this week, as the image-based social media company posted better-than-expected results in its first-quarter earnings report. The company also issued strong guidance for the second quarter. As a result, the stock was up 19% for the week as of Friday at 2:30 p.m.

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MAY 9, 2024

were climbing the charts this week after the company delivered a strong first-quarter earnings report. The company's strong quarterly results also drew a notable contrast with Starbucks , the global coffee giant, which posted weak results in its earnings report last week. As of Thursday at 12:52 p.m. Dutch Bros.

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APRIL 5, 2024

million as the company continues its rapid expansion. On the bottom line, the company posted adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) of $2.9 Kura also gained 190 basis points of leverage on its general and administrative spending. That figure beat estimates at $56.6

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MAY 16, 2024

Major cloud computing companies and governments around the globe have been lining up to buy Nvidia's AI graphics processing units (GPUs), leading to outstanding growth in the company's revenue and earnings. More importantly, The Trade Desk has been leveraging AI to ensure that advertisers get more out of its platform.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

The company's dividend yield has been in the double digits throughout most of 2023 and currently tops 13%. Other investors were more anxious about the fact that the company's executives didn't utter the word "dividend" in the Q2 conference call. Few stocks offer as juicy of a dividend as Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW).

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APRIL 17, 2024

That's a big move for a relatively slower-growing pipeline company. A big driver of Energy Transfer's recent run is its growing earnings. The MLP has grown its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) from $13.1 It expects earnings to grow to $14.5 billion-$14.8

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MAY 14, 2024

billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and $1.2 last year , an unfortunate first for the company. Sirius XM is also starting to pay down its long-term debt since that bearish leverage peaked in 2022. Sirius XM's trailing earnings of $0.34 The model works.

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MAY 14, 2024

The pipeline company recently made another deal designed to accelerate its ability to capture synergies from Magellan and drive future-earnings growth. The company plans to connect the pipelines to its NGL infrastructure in Mont Belviue, TX, and its refined products and crude oil infrastructure in Houston. times leverage ratio.

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MARCH 2, 2024

On top of that, because the company is expanding at a fast rate, many of its stores are still new. The comps store base is small compared to the whole, so it doesn't tell a complete story about the company. million in Q4 2023, the company reported a full-year profit of $10.0 million in Q4 2022 to $3.8 million, reversing its $19.3

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MAY 11, 2024

Nearly three years ago, GXO Logistics (NYSE: GXO) was spun off from XPO , the transportation and logistics company that had been one of the best-performing stocks of the previous decade. based logistics company for approximately $1 billion. The logic for the move was straightforward.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Home Depot's deal details Looking into the deal's details, SRS is a residential specialty trade distribution company focused on the professional roofing, landscape, and pool markets. billion in earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), implying an enterprise value (EV) to EBITDA multiple of 16.1.

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APRIL 4, 2024

However, everything has not always been smooth for the company. In fact, back in 2020, the midstream company slashed its distribution in half. First, let's first look at what the company does and how it grows its distribution. cents it was before the distribution cut. cents is now higher than the 30.5

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) became the world's first publicly traded electric vehicle (EV) charging network company after it merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on March 1, 2021. That stock offering won't increase its leverage, but it will cause significant dilution for a company with an enterprise value of only $1.4

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Some companies have a modest but steady dividend payout that grows over time. Other companies pay out jaw-dropping yields that far outpace what you could earn from a Treasury bond. However, lending to middle-market companies comes with its own risk. The debt-to-equity ratio is one measure of how much leverage a BDC uses.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

What happened Shares of SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) climbed 37% in July, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence , after the fintech and banking company announced strong second-quarter 2023 results and raised its full-year outlook. So what SoFi bolstered its member count by 44% year over year to 6.2

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APRIL 23, 2024

Like most of the airline industry , the company was hit hard by the pandemic, but it has been slowly making its way back thanks to strong leisure demand. The airline earned $0.03 The company enjoyed strong pricing power, growing revenue by 5% year over year despite a 13% decrease in capacity. per share loss on sales of $694.6

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AUGUST 6, 2023

Warren Buffett, longtime CEO and chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway , has had a remarkable career spanning decades, earning a reputation as one of the most successful investors of all time. As a result of Apple's aggressive share buybacks, the company has lowered its outstanding share count by 37.5% over the past decade.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

The company's latest results are a case in point. It's a better way to estimate the long-run cash flow potential of the company. From 1990 to 2022, for example, Heico achieved an impressive 15% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) with regard to revenue, while the company increased its net income at an 18% CAGR during the same period.

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MARCH 25, 2024

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company on Dec. The data mining company's shares started trading at $9.84 Let's see why the company initially impressed the bulls, how it let them down, and where the stock might be headed. Before BigBear.ai on April 6, 2022.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The energy midstream company grew its earnings and cash flow at a high-single-digit rate. That's a surprisingly fast pace for a company with such a high yield (recently around 8.9%). billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in 2023. billion last year.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Investors in Coupang (NYSE: CPNG) , South Korea's biggest e-commerce company, have had a challenging time over the last few years. The company went public on March 11, 2021, at $35 per share and closed at an all-time high of about $50 later that month. This impacted all high-growth but loss-making tech companies such as Coupang.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That makes it one of Berkshire's top holdings, just behind fellow oil and gas company Chevron (NYSE: CVX). A big bet on oil prices Occidental and Chevron are both integrated oil and gas companies. It strengthened that position with the acquisition of Anadarko, supported by Berkshire's $10 billion investment in the company.

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