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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

Musings on Markets

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

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Targa Resources Corp. to Acquire Lucid Energy from Riverstone Holdings and Goldman Sachs Asset Management for $3.55bn; Provides Updated 2022 Standalone Financial Outlook

Benzinga

times estimated 2023 adjusted EBITDA multiple. Targa now estimates standalone 2022 adjusted EBITDA to be between $2.675 billion and $2.775 billion and year-end leverage ratio of about 2.7 Fully cash and debt-financed transaction; expect pro forma year-end 2022 leverage ratio around 3.5 times and improving thereafter.

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