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Want Safe Income? This Stock Raised Its Dividend in the Last 8 Recessions

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ITW Return on Invested Capital data by YCharts. The company has prudently acquired companies over the years (more than two dozen acquisitions), steadily increasing its return on invested capital (ROIC). Illinois Tool Works has an A+ rating from S&P Global , putting it firmly in investment-grade territory.

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Enterprise Products Partners Is Set to Enter Growth Mode. Is It Time to Buy This Dividend Stock With a 7.3% Yield?

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Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 Enterprise has averaged about a 13% return on invested capital over the past five years. It generated distributable cash flow of $1.9 billion, and its adjusted free cash flow was over $1.0

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Forget Nvidia: Here's My Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy Instead

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This platform allows them to purchase ad inventory from multiple channels, set up, run, and optimize ad campaigns, and serve ads to the right audience on the relevant platform in a cost-efficient manner to increase advertisers' return on investment. The Trade Desk's earnings of $0.26 per share.

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Its core product is its Intelligent HUB, a machine learning-based platform that connects ad buyers and sellers to optimize transactions and return on investment. billion, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) improved from $245 million to $284 million.

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What's Good for Royal Caribbean Is Good for Carnival, NCL, and Disney

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The cruise line was hoping to top $100 in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) per available passenger cruise day, up from its prior record of $87 in 2019. in adjusted earnings per share, also set back in 2019. in adjusted earnings per share, also set back in 2019.

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Beat the Dow Jones With This Cash-Gushing Dividend Stock

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Best-in-class profitability In addition to this advantage from monetizing the by-product of its core collections business, Waste Management has historically held higher return on invested capital (ROIC) figures than its two most prominent peers. ROIC shows that it is the best in its industry at reinvesting in its business.

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Here's the Best Airline Stock to Buy for 2024

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Delta Air Lines 2022 2023 Long-Term Target Return on invested capital 8.40% 13.40% Mid-teens Weighted average cost of capital 8% 8% 8% Data source: Delta Air Lines. The table below shows the company's improvements in earnings and cash flow. In other words, Delta is now generating value for equity investors.

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