Sentences with phrase «free cash flow for»

For example, its adjusted funds from operation, or AFFO (similar to free cash flow for a REIT), margin was 64 % in 2017.

It's cheap (taking the midpoint of its guidance it's on less than 5.5 x earnings), it has got a strong balance sheet (net debt / EBITDA was 0.8 x at end - 2010), it has a stable business model (it is the biggest distributor of fruit and vegetables in Europe, with a reach that enables it to supply multiples across different countries), it has a decent dividend yield (circa 4.5 %) and it is spitting out cash (free cash flow for the twelve months ended 30 June 2011 amounted to $ 29.0 m — that's nearly a quarter of the group's market cap).

Free cash flow for the quarter was $ 42.2 million vs. $ 60.5 million in the prior year period.

For perspective on the dividend in relation to the company's ability to pay it, the Q1 2018 dividend consumed about 50 % of the company's free cash flow for over the same period, indicating a very healthy and sustainable dividend.

These guys are smarter than I am, and I'm smart enough to know that Amazon is a great business, but I can't get comfortable with paying 100 times free cash flow for the opportunity to own what might turn out to be much more cash flow later.

(If it is large, they may have to petition their regulator for approval) So if you want to approximate free cash flow for an insurer, try the following: (Income or loss outside your insurance companies for the current period) + (Distributable Income from insurance companies for the current period).

I have a saved list of all the domestic non-financial stocks that have produced positive free cash flow for 10 consecutive years.

MMI recommends a quarterly dividend of $ 0.10 per share, which would leave significant free cash flow for debt repayment or other deployment in 2010 and 2011, even with the scheduled amortization of debt in 2011 (see attachment: «DHT Dividend Analysis»).

They have been producing significant positive free cash flow for over a decade, with little to no debt.

However, it trades north of 21x core earnings, has only traded for about a year after being spun - off (not much track record), and the dividend exceeded free cash flow for the last 9 months.

The «old» Buffett, who looked for those cheap, «cigar butt» stocks would have never been excited to pay 25x free cash flow for a stock.

Sell - side analysts are forecasting as much as $ 45 - $ 50 million in free cash flow for fiscal 2009 from the Winstar facility ramp - up, increased machine counts and notes receivable repayments.

Buffett limited himself to being the wholly - owned company's board, asking questions on management competence, and redirecting free cash flow for the greater good of Berkshire Hathaway.

If you want to buy a dollar of free cash flow for less than one dollar, you are probably not going to find it among the... Continue reading →

Later on, he took over one of the Partnership's failed investments; a textile company called Berkshire - Hathaway, and used Berkshire's free cash flow for investment opportunities.

Free cash flow for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2013 includes fourth quarter 2012 cash outflows for purchases of corporate office space and property in Seattle, Washington, of $ 1.4 billion.

David Clark, Chief Financial Officer of The Meet Group, added, «We expect the acquisition to close in October 2017, to be accretive to non-GAAP EPS and to generate additional free cash flow for The Meet Group in 2018 and beyond.

Management has turned this seemingly sleepy business into one that generates high margins, throws off lots of free cash flow for dividends and buybacks, and provides returns on equity in excess of 20 %.

It has a much higher dividend yield of 4.2 %, and, like UGI, it has delivered positive free cash flow for three consecutive years.

Despite some one - time issues with the company's procurement costs last quarter, this company has delivered excellent profit growth and consistent free cash flow for its shareholders over the past several years.

And NZME should generate a lot of free cash flow for shareholders.

The value of any business ultimately comes down to its ability to generate free cash flow for investors.

In the realm of acquiring ownership in individual businesses, it often includes avoiding a trap many investors find tempting: Namely, overlooking what one famed economist has called the «tried and true» companies that rarely change, are highly profitable, and pump out ever - increasing sums of free cash flow for the stockholders despite being so ordinary few give them a second glance.

In the current quarter, the company generated about $ 0.20 of core free cash flow for every dollar of sales.

Other than projected free cash flow for the year ending December 31, 2018, for which a reconciliation is provided, we have not provided quantitative reconciliations of these forward - looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable forward - looking GAAP financial measures because the excluded items are not available on a prospective basis without unreasonable efforts.

The stable outlook reflects our view that ACT's strong market position in North America and Scandinavia and its continued operating efficiency will insulate it from margin pressure in this highly competitive industry, contributing incremental earnings and generating strong free cash flow for debt reduction that should result in leverage declining quickly to about 3x by the end of 2013.

An analysis by Bloomberg found the company spends more than $ 6,500 every minute and has had negative free cash flow for five quarters.

Our management uses free cash flow for that reason.

Three aspiring gold miners have announced an increase in projected free cash flow for their respective projects as a result of the strong gold price, coupled with falling fuel costs.

Not exact matches

Aluminum products maker Arconic slashed its 2018 forecasts for profit and free cash flow as it expects prices of the metal to remain high this year due to sanctions on Russian supplies and a 10 percent duty on aluminum imports.

April 30 (Reuters)- Aluminum products maker Arconic Inc slashed its 2018 forecasts for profit and free cash flow on expectations that the price of the metal would remain high this year due to sanctions on Russian supplies and a 10 percent duty on aluminum imports.

«We were a bit late recognising that one, but it's done wonders for our cash flow,» Mr King said.The company recently appointed business development manager Chris Temov, who has been working closely with Austrade and the WA government, which are currently providing free market research, with an emphasis on comparative pricing and delivery in the UK.The research is provided under the company's status as a new exporter.

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«While the most recent dividend was paid in May of last year, we believe there is potential for the company to accelerate this timeline given our estimate of a 14 % FCF [free cash flow] benefit from tax reform and the company's strong underlying cash flow,» he wrote.

Koonar's looking for undervalued companies; McColl likes businesses that can grow their free cash flow; Cooke wants to own operations that have low debt - to - equity ratios.

Gold producer Northern Star Resources is calling the past six months a defining period for the company, with a combination of strong growth in production, lower costs and increased free cash flow.

While Tesla expressed confidence about the second half of the year, negative free cash flow was more than $ 1 billion for the third time in the last four quarters.

For 2018, AT&T said including impacts from tax cuts and a new accounting standard, it expects earnings per share in the $ 3.50 range, free cash flow of about $ 21 billion and capital expenditures of $ 25 billion.

* Note: When we provide expectations for adjusted EPS, organic sales and free cash flow on a forward - looking basis, a reconciliation of the differences between the non-GAAP expectations and the corresponding GAAP measures generally is not available without unreasonable effort.

(Free cash flow on a per share basis is up 2 % year - over-year and stands at a strong $ 559 million for the quarter, despite a very high debt ratio of about 78 %.)

Whatever the cost of rolling out the new TV service, the carrier said it is not changing its three - year forecast for increasing its free cash flow by 45 % to 48 % annually.

Negative free cash flow has been the main source of concern for many Wall Street analysts who are otherwise bullish on the stock.

Still, the pricing legerdemain surrounding the Twitter offering could prove an instructive lesson for small - business owners seeking insight on how to value their own businesses — a task usually accomplished by examining free cash flow.

They have at least three core pursuits in retirement; they've planned for the cost of those pursuits; they have a plan to be mortgage - free by retirement; they have at least three separate sources of income; and they are income investors who rely on their portfolio cash flow to replace their former paycheck.

«For the remainder of 2014 we will focus on our multi-layered growth strategy, which incorporates same - store sales growth, leverage from higher sales, deployment of free cash flow, increasing royalty revenues and new drive - in development to build shareholder value,» Sonic CEO Cliff Hudson said in a statement.

So in 1995, in one of the couple's earliest conscious attempts to change how they ran the company, McManus hired his first manager, for finance — someone to ostensibly free him from the burden of managing cash flow.

As for math, make sure earnings growth and free cash - flow growth match up.

Free cash flow, a key metric of financial health, widened to negative $ 1 billion in the first quarter from negative $ 277 million in the fourth quarter, excluding costs of systems for its solar business.

Bombardier said it is on track to achieve free cash flow breakeven for the full year.

It should not be inferred that the entire free cash flow amount is available for discretionary expenditures.