The reconciliations with the appropriate GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release issued yesterday afternoon. You know, I think the last piece of, about it is, you know, we're able to do this in a very capital efficient manner and get it done very quickly. While you bumped the dividend, you indicated that you might be slowing down the buyback a little bit. I mean, I think allocating capital is the most important job we have to do as a management team.
You know, the history of the return of capital program for both ourselves and the industry, you know, was put in place after the COVID, you know, near extinction event of the industry. You know, I don't expect our ability to return capital to stockholders to change. You know, we have a really, really good track record of buying back our own stock. You know, clearly with the stock where it is today, that's a very positive rate of return for our stockholders, and I expect that to continue.
If we, you know, use kinda excess free cash flow over the next couple quarters to pay down debt, we can help monetize their stake actually more efficiently coming out of this. Is that something we should anticipate moving forward, and what's embedded in guidance? Second question, just, on capital allocation, especially, given the continued, you know, record free cash flow growth per share you'll likely have. Kaes, wondering specifically, how do you believe capital for M&A stacks up, you know, maybe against buybacks or simply the near term debt repayment?