The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2023

Our strategy is underpinned by a commitment to financial performance, with a focus on free cash flow, return on invested capital, and earnings durability. Strong cash generation will enable us to return our balance sheet to investment-grade metrics while consistently reinvesting in the business.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

And with me today are Sonos' CEO, Patrick Spence; and CFO and chief legal officer, Eddie Lazarus. Now, I will turn the call over to Eddie to provide more details on our results and our outlook, Eddie Lazarus -- Chief Legal and Financial Officer Thank you, Patrick. Eddie Lazarus -- Chief Legal and Financial Officer All right.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

While we have always used data analytics to assess the effect of weather events, our new weather contingency playbook developed by our planning, engineering, and data works teams enhances the process by leveraging predictive capabilities to proactively divert storm-bound volumes across our networks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

We did this by leveraging our best-in-class cost finance team in merchants to effectively manage cost movements while also being our customer's advocate for value. Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased approximately 2% compared to the fourth quarter of last year. We also navigated a unique disinflationary environment.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Our linear channels are deeply embedded in our direct-to-consumer strategy, as they continue to deliver high-quality content that reaches demographics not captured on streaming alone, allowing us to broaden our audiences and leverage our unmatched content engine across an expansive base. With a business with that profile, you invest in it.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We are also leaning into live sports with an expanded NFL relationship and leveraging our popular commercials featuring Lowe's home team players trying their hands at DIY projects. Capital expenditures totaled $620 million in Q4 as we continue to invest in strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability. Good morning.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Pro is one of our biggest growth opportunities, and this organizational change will allow us to better serve them by leveraging our full ecosystem of expertise, product assortment, fulfillment, and operations. Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased approximately 5% compared to the third quarter of last year.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While we're pleased with our top-line results, operating income was below our guidance due to higher-than-anticipated expenses, largely certain legal accruals. Store remodel costs were also higher as we rolled out 117 of our flagship design stores earlier this month, and legal expenses increased. from 4% to 4.5%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

Behind each of these drivers is the need to make AI more actionable with more relevant personalization, more impactful marketing programs and more measurable return on investment. We're seeing encouraging returns on investments across product development, sales, and marketing.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

And we continue to invest in pro growth, which includes expanding our capabilities to handle larger order delivery to the job site while also opening new Lowe's pro supply branches around the country. per share and repurchased 3 million shares for $743 million, returning $1.4 That customer still leverages the store for fill-in.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

During the quarter, we leveraged these new capabilities to reduce operating expenses while enhancing the customer experience for both Pro and DIY customers at the same time. With these smaller format stores, we can leverage lower cost real estate and trade areas closest to our core customer without cannibalizing a nearby Lowe's store.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Our guidance assumes, among other things, that we don't conclude any additional business acquisitions, restructurings, or legal settlements. Our teams worked to increase the relevancy of the ads we show to our customers by leveraging machine learning and improve our ability to measure the return on advertising spend for brands.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Most notably, we're executing our 3x3 plan to leverage our risk capital and human capital structure and capability, embed the Aon client leadership model across the firm, and utilize Aon Business Services to set a new standard of innovation in client service. First question is about the Vesttoo legal settlement. Good morning.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

They want to leverage the investments, they being Capital One, leverages the investments and their network they've put down for the last decades, and they can do that by getting larger very quickly with as you say an all-stock deal. The famous or infamous word, I guess would be scale.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

In closing, our agreement with Marriott, ongoing investments into our operations and a fantastic sports entertainment backdrop in Las Vegas position us well to create operating leverage by growing our EBITDAR against our fixed rent escalators. This implies a creation multiple of 2.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2023

Our data assets are unique, and we're excited about the potential to leverage them in new and impactful ways. Delivery speed and accuracy are obviously important, and we lack how we're leveraging our physical assets. Partially offsetting this, international expenses leveraged significantly on strong sales growth. In the U.S.,

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Once a client advances past the basics, then they can dive deeper into more complex investments such as hedge funds, private equity or leveraged credit. Common Alternative Investments. Farmland and crops have proven throughout history to be stable investments due to the consistent demand. Private Equity. Real Estate.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations, sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, right-size the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At the same time, we continue to expand margins through sales leverage and productivity and savings initiatives. We also had extraordinary legal expenses of approximately $800,000 in the fourth quarter. It allows us to optimize the restaurant, both from an efficiency standpoint but also from a return-on-investment standpoint.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

This new capability allows us to leverage our 1,700-plus store footprint to make those much needed last-minute deliveries to Pro job sites, saving them both time and money. And we also continue to leverage our penetration of rural stores to drive sales productivity. But the reality is we still have a lot of opportunity ahead.

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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 The majority of these costs are associated with products that are back before 2018.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Actual results could differ materially from our expectations, and we have no duty to provide updates unless legally required. Is a dividend in the works to at least provide some return on investment? And so, Robinhood Connect really leverages that and turns that into a powerful B2B product. This one is for Jason.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

and foreign operations related to a legal entity restructuring implemented in anticipation of the IPO and separation. As Steph mentioned, we will take a disciplined approach to that M&A, balancing profitable growth with return on invested capital. The effective tax rate for 2023 was 24.3%, compared to 19.6%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In short, we believe these changes enhance our competitive position by elevating the value of our identity graph and further improving the effectiveness and return on investment for the ZMP for engagement. Second, we're leveraging our flywheel. First, we're taking share while growing efficiently. So it moves very, very quickly.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

Jeffrey Graves, president and chief executive officer; Michael Turner, executive vice president and chief financial officer; and Andrew Johnson, executive vice president, chief corporate development officer, and chief legal officer. The webcast portion of this call contains a slide presentation that we will refer to during the call.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. RIEDER: — to the investment grade market. If I get functionally, 90 percent, 85 percent to 90 percent return on investment grade, I can sleep a whole lot better at night. RITHOLTZ: It doesn’t look like it’s been massaged to death by legal.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

“Despite significant declines in global equity and fixed income markets during our fiscal year, our investment portfolio remained resilient, delivering stable returns while outperforming major indexes.” The positive fiscal-year results reflect returns on investments in infrastructure and certain U.S. and the U.S.

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