Bob Phelan
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Adtalem Global Education
Our balance sheet remains healthy, ending the third quarter with $219,000,000 in cash and a low adjusted EBITDA net leverage of 0.8 times. As I mentioned on last quarter's call, on January 17, we further strengthened our balance sheet, repaying $100,000,000 on our higher interest rate term loan B, which reduces the outstanding balance to $153,300,000 As Steve highlighted, we recently completed our $300,000,000 share repurchase authorization on May 5, representing a significant return to shareholders. Since February 2022, we returned $763,000,000 to shareholders, reducing shares outstanding by 28% at an average repurchase price of $49 We have achieved exceptional performance thus far in fiscal year twenty twenty five, ahead of our original expectations set heading into the year as we continue to execute our Growth with Purpose strategy, creating greater efficiencies and scale. And as a result, we are raising our guidance with revenue now in the range of 1,760,000,000 to $1,775,000,000 approximately 11% to 12% growth year over year, with adjusted earnings per share of $6.4 to $6.6 approximately 28% to 32% growth year over year. For the full year, our new level of revenue guidance results in incremental operating leverage.