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Showing 1381–1440 of 2,092 matching "revenue"
callout villain critique

"Morgan Stanley’s Inpatient forecast assumes athena launches a new revenue cycle management service in 2017 that will reach $2.5 billion of revenues by 2030."

athenahealth · ATHN Greenlight Capital · p. 39
callout peer gap

"Timken’s Bearings Sales growth over the last five years is virtually identical to SKF’s, implying that the revenue synergies from integration are negligible"

The Timken Company · TKR Relational Investors · p. 24
callout before after

"It appears that LSPD loosened its revenue recognition policies post IPO to allow for recognition "on the date the services are made available to customers"."

Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. · LSPD Spruce Point Capital · p. 33
callout peer gap

"GoDaddy trades at an almost 40% discount to this broader set of technology companies with a similar revenue growth profile and a high recurring revenue mix."

GoDaddy Inc. · GDDY Starboard Value · p. 7
callout other

"Spruce Point cannot reconcile the 2021 operating revenue bridge, as displayed in the year end investor presentation, with the disclosures made in the 10-K."

Essential Utilities, Inc. · WTRG Spruce Point Capital · p. 63
callout peer gap

"Among the 60 companies in the S&P North American Technology Software Index (IGV), Commvault, a member of this index, has the third-lowest revenue multiple."

callout other

"More recent IPX press releases also do not appear to have gained much traction or converted to committed customer contracts that have produced revenue yet."

IperionX Ltd. · IPX Spruce Point Capital · p. 61
callout appendix data

"Thus, we believe the audio livestreaming and China-PRC revenues are essentially the same and should be predominantly, if not substantially all, from Hello."

Joyy Inc. · YY Muddy Waters · p. 61
callout ceo quote

"If one-off projects can consistently translate into stable and recurring managed services revenue streams, why is region-specific sales growth so volatile?"

Amdocs Limited · DOX Spruce Point Capital · p. 20
callout section divider

"Investors Should Be Alarmed That Perion's CEO And Audit Chair Both Worked At Lumenis, Which Was Under SEC Investigation And Charged With Inflating Revenues"

Perion Network Ltd. · PERI Spruce Point Capital · p. 29
callout villain critique

"FTAI generates about ~$2m in GAAP revenue per module sold, compared to the sticker price a customer would pay for an off-the-rack module (~$700k - ~$1.5m)."

FTAI Aviation Ltd. · FTAI Muddy Waters · p. 13
callout other

"Despite foreign exchange revenue impact of approximately -10%¹ since inception, ZTS has increased 49% from when we purchased our first shares in July 2014²"

quote ceo quote

"“EBITDA levels are at a low point and [the Company expects] to see improvements with revenue growth in 2015...” — Yahoo! Management, Q3 2014 earnings call."

Yahoo! Inc. · YHOO Starboard Value · p. 4
callout peer gap

"We believe that Remitly trades at an unsupported valuation premium to peers on the belief that its high revenue growth rate is sustainable and attractive."

Remitly Global, Inc. · RELY Spruce Point Capital · p. 71
callout peer gap

"While Paychex historically generated similar Net Operational Revenue per Employee as ADP (from 2008-2011), it has dramatically outperformed ADP since 2011"

callout appendix methodology

"Before estimating revenues at the program level, we first created a historical revenue model from 2011 to 2015 using 2U's MD&A disclosure in the 2015 10K."

2U, Inc. · TWOU Spruce Point Capital · p. 45
callout other

"Oasis estimates revenue from Curél to be around USD 285 – 430 mn, mostly concentrated in Japan and Asia with minimal presence in Europe, and the Americas."

Kao Corporation · 4452.JP Oasis Management · p. 53
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point calls on management to explain how all of the direct revenues recognized from the Baker Hughes JV are being recognized at +99% gross margins?"

C3.ai, Inc. · AI Spruce Point Capital · p. 41
callout villain critique

"Without spending ~$200 million on acquisitions, GCP's revenue would have declined $115 million or ~11% between 2016 and 2019, an alarmingly large decline!"

GCP Applied Technologies · GCP Starboard Value · p. 8
callout other

"If the reported deferred revenue number is not fraudulent, it implies that the business was ramping with a large number of new student tutoring contracts."

TAL Education Group · TAL Muddy Waters · p. 59
callout other

"1/28/26: META reports strong Q4 results and provides better-than-expected 2026E revenue growth guidance, as well as clarity around operating income growth"

Pershing Square Holdings · PSH Pershing Square · p. 66
callout precedent table

"MagnaChip recognized revenue on sales of incomplete or unshipped products...and delayed booking obsolete or aged inventory to manipulate its gross margin."

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 88
callout villain critique

"EDU’s franchising terms seem designed to perpetuate the EDU myth by maximizing store base growth to justify breakneck reported revenue and profit growth."

callout section divider

"In the decade to 2022, global revenue CAGR was 6.2%, and Kao has set Molton Brown a target CAGR to 2030 of 5.2% - a slowdown compared to the past decade."

Kao Corporation · 4452.JP Oasis Management · p. 60
callout peer gap

"However, TWX magazines are not among the fastest growing titles in terms of advertising pages or advertising revenue growth as shown in the tables below:"

Time Warner Inc. · TWX Carl Icahn · p. 149
callout villain critique

"These facts call into question what is its real “stand-alone” value as claimed by Axon for revenue recognition purposes, when its utility is constrained."

Axon Enterprise (formerly TASER) · AAXN Spruce Point Capital · p. 34
callout villain critique

"How did accounts receivable just disappear without explanation? If they were written-off, is that evidence of phantom revenue booked but not collectable?"

Perion Network Ltd. · PERI Spruce Point Capital · p. 104
callout precedent table

"Google and Facebook severed ties crippling Cheetah’s ad-driven revenue model. Shares plummeted in stages from a high of $76 in Jan 2018 to $9 at YE 2020."

AppLovin · APP Muddy Waters · p. 37
callout villain critique

"The concentrated group of “super users” who drive TransMedics revenue regularly, we were told, push the period far beyond 30 minutes, to 2 hours or more."

TransMedics Group Inc · TMDX Scorpion Capital · p. 179
callout villain critique

"Had the acquisitions been in effect for all of 2014, revenues generated from the acquired companies would have been at least 43% of WUBA’s total revenue."

58.com Inc. · WUBA Grizzly Research · p. 7
callout peer gap

"As shown in the software industry, we also expect this subscription revenue stream will be capitalized at much higher multiples than a transactional one."

callout peer gap

"Just growing in line with the market would mean revenues in 2027 would be JPY 30 billion and EBITDA nearly JPY 7 billion larger than under Kao's targets"

Kao Corporation · 4452.JP Oasis Management · p. 56
callout other

"But unsustainable levels of high margin trading, securities lending, and net interest revenue swelled... Which masked a significant increase in expenses"

State Street Corporation · STT Trian Partners · p. 15
callout villain critique

"Is management being aggressive in its accounting definition of "cloud revenue" to inflate what investors would believe to be true "cloud-based" revenue?"

Verint Systems, Inc. · VRNT Spruce Point Capital · p. 57
callout peer gap

"Only 1 of the 18 companies in AOL's 2011 peer group has a market cap below AOL's market cap and only one company has revenue barely below AOL's revenue."

AOL, Inc. · AOL Starboard Value · p. 64
callout peer gap

"Just growing in line with the market would mean revenues in 2027 would be JPY 30 billion and EBITDA nearly JPY 7 billion larger than under Kao's targets"

Kao Corporation · 4452 Oasis Management · p. 10
callout other

"The chart above shows that SGH has begun exhibiting negative operating leverage – its operating expenses remain stable even as revenue declines rapidly."

SMART Global Holdings, Inc. · SGH Wolfpack Research · p. 21
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point believes that if revenue cannot be accurately depicted, then investors should have limited confidence in GFL's entire financial reporting."

GFL Environmental Inc. · GFL Spruce Point Capital · p. 49
callout other

"ADP’s accounting for PEO “revenues” overstates growth and economic revenue and complicates operational benchmarking given the significant pass-throughs"

callout peer gap

"PERI’s revenue per average employee has compounded at nearly 30% since 2019. This is a remarkable achievement that should draw skepticism and scrutiny."

Perion Network Ltd. · PERI Spruce Point Capital · p. 14
callout villain critique

"In our view, inserting a straw buyer likely enables BEKE a convenient mechanism to fake cash that is a byproduct of significantly overstating revenues."

KE Holdings · BEKE Muddy Waters · p. 44
callout villain critique

"Despite poor organic revenue growth, management has seen healthy increases in its base salary. Why is management being rewarded while investors suffer?"

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. · PBH Spruce Point Capital · p. 109
callout ceo quote

"In light of our findings that >17% of revenues are to Microsoft, a U.S. company, it’s remarkable that MPWR reports pre-tax losses from U.S. operations."

Monolithic Power Systems · MPWR Spruce Point Capital · p. 60
callout villain critique

"It appears to us that this Strategic Partnership was intended mainly to create the illusion that MOXC’s online advertising business generated revenues."

Moxian, Inc. · MOXC Wolfpack Research · p. 12
callout villain critique

"This makes QTT's total loyalty program expenses (user acquisition expense + user engagement expense) $701.8 million, or 100.2% of SEC reported revenue."

Qutoutiao, Inc. · QTT Wolfpack Research · p. 14
callout before after

"While Disney’s growth investments and M&A have contributed to total revenue growth of 41% between FY 2018-22, EPS has declined 50% over the same period"

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 18
quote ceo quote

"Overall, revenue growth trends continue to show strength 5-plus weeks into the fourth quarter, and we expect them to continue. — Management (Conf call)"

Magnite, Inc. · MGNI Spruce Point Capital · p. 28
callout villain critique

"Yes, FIGS experienced rapid revenue growth. That is why it would be all the more shocking that FIGS management would misrepresent its financial scale."

FIGS, Inc. · FIGS Spruce Point Capital · p. 30
callout peer gap

"We estimate that, on a per-patient-per-day basis, Dexcom spends 59% more to produce the G6 system than Abbott will generate in revenue on the Libre 2."

Dexcom, Inc. · DXCM Spruce Point Capital · p. 34
callout scenario table

"Beating management revenue guidance would require a significant beat in net patient adds given likely downside in average revenue per customer per day"

Dexcom, Inc. · DXCM Spruce Point Capital · p. 77
callout peer gap

"Tempus has a relatively uncommon requirement that it must maintain minimum consolidated revenues at $1.0 billion to avoid violating its debt covenant."

Tempus AI, Inc. · TEM Spruce Point Capital · p. 32
callout comparison table

"We believe Xylem may have misrepresented revenue dis-synergies by failing to disclose and quantify intercompany sales and competitive product overlap."

Xylem Inc. · XYL Spruce Point Capital · p. 43
callout peer gap

"While Zebra talked about double digit and mid-teens growth in RFID, Impinj grew systems revenues (which include readers) at a 26% CAGR from 2020-2023."

Zebra Technologies Corp. · ZBRA Spruce Point Capital · p. 36
callout peer gap

"Wall Street analysts overall expect TWC to continue its double-digit revenue growth in 2006, outstripping the growth rates of Comcast and Cablevision."

Time Warner Inc. · TWX Carl Icahn · p. 186
callout villain critique

"Why did the Compensation Committee decide, out of thin air, that management should receive its full 50% revenue bonus despite missing on STIC Revenue?"

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. · HRC Spruce Point Capital · p. 68