Advent International

MAY 25, 2023

Under the terms of the agreement, Advent will sell the 15% shareholding, with the option for PPF to purchase a further 15% of the Group’s total share capital at an agreed price. On completion of the initial sale, Advent will remain the largest shareholder in the Group with a 30.3% of InPost’s share capital during the lock-up period).

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Advent International

MAY 25, 2023

Under the terms of the agreement, Advent will sell the 15% shareholding, with the option for PPF to purchase a further 15% of the Group’s total share capital at an agreed price. On completion of the initial sale, Advent will remain the largest shareholder in the Group with a 30.3% of InPost’s share capital during the lock-up period).

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

One of them was the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to leverage PayPal's huge data trove and create more value for clients and expand its opportunities. He's made some important changes to the company's trajectory to boost profitability and create a clear and compelling growth story. So far, it's going well.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Dividends compensate patient shareholders for enduring the cyclicality of the oil patch. Operating a massive portfolio of green energy assets, Brookfield Renewable has demonstrated a strong commitment to rewarding shareholders, and its 4.8% The energy and utilities sectors are known for their high yields.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

And just when investors hoped that a complete spin-off of Alibaba Cloud from the group would rekindle growth and unlock shareholder value, the parent company's recent decision to cancel the spin-off further confused investors. So, what's going on with the business? Let's explore that further. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

Investing in the future while returning cash to shareholders Meta's massive step-up in share repurchases over the past three years is an indication of the strength of its operations and balance sheet. by simply integrating similar features into its app and leveraging its network effect. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 29, 2024

Walmart's rebound Despite the stock's past struggles, Walmart has finally learned to leverage e-commerce to its advantage. Where that has left Walmart shareholders Unfortunately, these improvements have still left new investors with few reasons to buy. Unfortunately, these improvements may not make its stock a buy today. Here's why.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

Apple has the cash to step in and buy its stock, thereby reducing the share count and giving existing shareholders greater ownership of the company. Granted, it only yields 0.6%, but it's still a massive capital commitment for Apple to its shareholders. The dividend is an additional incentive to hold the stock through volatile periods.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2024

Specifically, management is targeting " investment-grade leverage " by 2026. Taken together, I believe it's likely that occupancy levels for Carnival's ships will go up, allowing it to generate higher profits as it leverages its fixed costs. But for now, it won't be using cash to reward shareholders -- it can't yet.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF: Up 240% over the last decade The Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF measures the performance of the S&P 500 Quality index, which itself attempts to track the highest-quality S&P 500 companies as measured by three metrics: return on equity (ROE), balance sheet accruals (BSA) ratio, and financial leverage ratio.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 3, 2024

Furthermore, it has leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance this tool, including an AI-driven virtual assistant. Such add-ons can help it leverage its lead in the online meeting space to foster additional revenue sources. Nonetheless, fewer shares available should mean higher stock prices for current shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft is leveraging the old with the new. Five of the Magnificent Seven stocks pay a regular dividend to their shareholders When most investors think of the Magnificent Seven, they probably envision Wall Street's steadiest growth stocks. It has the balance sheet and capital to support a continuous payout to its shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

It also raises questions for shareholders regarding the mechanics of a stock split and what it means to investors. The stock split will be subject to shareholder approval at Chipotle's annual meeting on June 6. The stock split will be subject to shareholder approval at Chipotle's annual meeting on June 6. Image source: Chipotle.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 10, 2024

Shareholders of Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ: COKE) , the largest Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) bottler in the country, had a great week this week. Shareholder returns The stock buyback will require new debt and will also erase much of Coke's cash holdings that currently sit near $600 million.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In Berkshire's 2013 annual shareholder letter, Buffett laid this strategy bare by noting that a mix of 10% cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund would likely deliver superior returns compared to most professional money managers who charge high fees. How has the VOO performed historically?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dividend growth stocks, which are companies that regularly increase their cash payouts to shareholders annually, have significantly outperformed the majority of other asset classes over this 124-year span. However, it's worth noting that AbbVie's debt-to-equity ratio, a measure of the company's financial leverage, currently stands at 582%.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

shareholders that "our favorite holding period is forever." Here's a look at what Buffett had to say about the oil stock in Berkshire's latest annual letter to shareholders, as he likened it to his company's stakes in Coca-Cola and American Express. In 1988, Warren Buffett famously wrote to Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 3, 2024

Not only do they provide passive income, but they can also produce above-average total returns as they grow their earnings and shareholder payouts. times leverage ratio. times leverage ratio its stable cash flow can support. Dividend stocks can be magnificent investments. MPLX ended last year with $1 billion in cash and a low 3.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The "ultimate financial measure": F ree cash flow per share In his 2004 letter to Amazon shareholders, Jeff Bezos said (emphasis mine): Our ultimate financial measure, and the one we most want to drive over the long term, is free cash flow per share. Image source: Getty Images. How can investors use this metric?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

billion in dividends to its shareholders. The other important aspect to look at when it comes to the safety of a company's dividend is its leverage, which is its net debt divided by its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Altria ended 2023 with leverage of 2.2 For 2023, Altria paid $6.8

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

times leverage ratio , down from 2.7 The company's long-term target is to get leverage between 1.75 As leverage declines, the company expects to allocate some excess free cash toward repurchasing shares (once leverage falls under 2.25 Verizon ended the second quarter with a 2.6 times in the year-ago period.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

But it took on debt, increasing its leverage, so it could continue to support its business and pay the dividend. Management was willing to add leverage because oil price declines have historically been followed by oil price rebounds. It also happens to be a very good steward of shareholder capital.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Filling them up, therefore, allows the company to leverage these high fixed costs and turn a higher profit. With its strong profitability, the cruise line rewarded shareholders with share repurchases and a high-yield dividend. Therefore, there's plenty of reason to be encouraged if you're a Carnival shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

When a company starts paying a dividend to its shareholders, it is often seen as a signal of confidence that the company is at a stage where it can produce stable and growing earnings and cash flow. The past 21 years have been transformational Microsoft declared its first dividend for shareholders on Jan. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Switching to defense Take-Two didn't give shareholders much to celebrate in its fiscal Q3 report (for the quarter ended Dec. We aim to achieve greater operating leverage as we roll out our outstanding release schedule," CEO Strauss Zelnick said in the February press release.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

While they will work together on notable large projects, they're still competitors who look out for their shareholders' interests. That's a low leverage ratio for the oil company. Like Exxon, Chevron's leverage target is 20% to 25%. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) have a growing rivalry.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 11, 2024

Shareholders have probably been wondering how progress has been. Encouraging signs I thought PayPal's latest quarterly update gave shareholders reasons to be optimistic about the state of the business. Earnings season is in full swing, so investors are getting much-needed updates on their holdings.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2023

It was a cash bonanza for shareholders. But the benefit for shareholders of this dividend change was pretty intense. To be fair, Pioneer isn't wildly over leveraged. While leverage is reasonable, it does seem prudent for the company to bring its absolute debt levels back down again given the swift increase.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 14, 2024

This massive size gives the business negotiating leverage to acquire goods from suppliers at low per-unit costs, savings that are passed on to customers. More sales translates to better leverage versus suppliers, leading to ongoing savings for members. This creates a flywheel effect for Costco.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

With greater scale the company can afford to advertise more aggressively as well as exercise leverage with its distributors and retail partners. Shareholders continue to directly benefit from this bottom-line growth, too. There's also the company's sheer size, and its subsequent reach.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

It's been a fantastic 12 months for shareholders of robotic process automation (RPA) specialist UiPath (NYSE: PATH). As a shareholder since shortly after that IPO -- and with the caveat that I don't expect it to revisit those highs in the very near future -- there are two big reasons I think so.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2024

The high-flying AI server specialist filed this morning to sell 2 million shares, diluting existing shareholders by approximately 3.6%. Leveraging its lofty stock price to strengthen its competitive advantage makes sense.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2023

Meanwhile, it pays out a reasonable percentage of that stable cash flow to shareholders in dividends (60% to 70%). leverage ratio , putting it at the low end of its 4.5-5.0 The natural gas infrastructure giant pays out a conservative portion of that steady cash to shareholders (its dividend payout ratio should be around 53% of its $4.8

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

On top of that, BDCs use leverage to boost their payouts to shareholders. The debt-to-equity ratio is one metric that shows how much leverage BDCs use. Hercules Capital's debt-to-equity ratio is 0.75, well below the BDC average of 1.08, showing that the company's leverage is quite conservative relative to its peers.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 10, 2024

Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the second quarter of 2024, after which we'll be happy to take your questions. per share or 9%. per share or 9%.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

Disney wants to leverage its popular ESPN channel with a skinny sports bundle media partnership that it recently announced. That's good news for shareholders and is likely helping to increase investor interest in owning Disney shares. Recent announcements have also begun to bring new momentum to the business.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

First, Microchip has recently completed a de-leveraging cycle that began all the way back in 2018 after the large acquisition of Microsemi. Now having reached its leverage target, the company will programmatically increase cash returns to shareholders, growing from 62.5%

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