If you query all results with ->all() or ->get(), you may then perform various Collection operations on the same result, it won’t query database every time.
$users = User::all();echo 'Max ID: ' . $users->max('id');echo 'Average age: ' . $users->avg('age');echo 'Total budget: ' . $users->sum('budget');
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