Sentences with phrase «grow free cash flow»

If you work with a margin of safety, and buy companies that will produce free cash flow, and can grow free cash flow, you will be safer than most investors, and probably more successful as well.

Quality companies, by our definition, are those able to generate and grow free cash flow while maintaining healthy balance sheets.

If IBM can grow the free cash flow in the coming years, the dividend will have even more room to expand.

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.

Investments for the Fund are chosen from a select list created through an intensive research process that seeks to identify undervalued companies with growing free cash flow and shareholder - oriented management teams.

The introduction of unlimited plans from Verizon Communications and AT&T, as well as continued aggressive competition from Sprint, combined with a pullback of promotional activity by T - Mobile as it focuses on growing free cash flow, has resulted in declining market share gains.

As seen below, Crown Castle has generated positive, growing free cash flow over the last decade.

I've suspected that mature companies with sustainable competitive advantages often grow free cash flows in a more linear fashion, at least over a period of about 10 years.

CN has generated positive and growing free cash flow over the last decade.

Not exact matches

«The longer - term strategy has yet to be articulated well, but the company is growing fast and has positive free cash flow,» Shoup said.

Its free cash flow has grown by nearly the same amount, says Liley.

Dropbox has been facing steep expenses driven by a growing R&D budget, but became free - cash - flow positive in 2016.

They also help the company continue to grow its store count while still generating positive free cash flow in every single year since it was spun off.

Even with the free cash flow depressed, the dividend is sustainable and capable of growing.

We, then, conservatively assume that UHS can grow ACHC's revenue and NOPAT / free cash flow without any incremental capital outlays after year 1, an unlikely assumption, but nonetheless.

That said, the company's free cash flow should remain strong and grow after its acquisitions start to fully materialize, transforming AT&T into a modern - day vertically integrated entertainment and communication company.

Each of these scenarios assumes The Anderson's is able to grow revenue and NOPAT / free cash flow without spending on working capital or fixed assets.

While WWAV's acquisitions were «accretive» to EPS, its debt grew 39 % compounded annually from 2012 - 2014 and its free cash flow in 2015 was - $ 641 million.

Each of these scenarios assumes CIRCOR is able to grow revenue and NOPAT / free cash flow without spending on working capital or fixed assets.

Each of these scenarios also assumes SENEA is able to grow NOPAT / free cash flow without spending on working capital or fixed assets.

We expect the Fund's holdings to continue to generate free cash flow, invest in their businesses, pay dividends and repurchase stock, and, in general, grow their intrinsic value per share.

Through the team's relentless execution of our plan in the first quarter, we grew revenue, expanded EBITDA margins, produced over 30 % growth in earnings and free cash flow per share and returned essentially all of our free cash flow to shareholders.

If 85 percent of that is free cash flow, and float grows, say $ 5 billion a year, the float growth would add almost 30 percent to the annual free cash flow.

Or, the stock has a free cash flow yield of 10 % and is growing 3 %, or 5 %, or 8 % - or really anything but 0 % or negative percent.

Tying long - term bonuses only to free cash flow could at times discourage the investment necessary to maintain market share and grow the business.

As noted above, this scenario also assumes Tesla is able to grow revenue and NOPAT / free cash flow without spending on working capital or fixed assets.

While the company's non-GAAP «cash earnings» have been highly positive, growing from $ 421 million in 2010 to $ 3.55 billion over the latest trailing - twelve months (TTM), free cash flow has been highly negative with a cumulative - $ 38.4 billion in losses over the same time frame.

This scenario also assumes Tesla is able to grow revenue and NOPAT / free cash flow without spending on working capital or fixed assets.

Based on that 5 - year forecast and IMS Health's tendency to buy back stock (and the reasonable price of that stock before the buyout rumor leaked) it seems likely that free cash flow per share would have grown by 10 % + annually if IMS Health had stayed a public company.

The thought here is that with a great, competitively - advantaged business, free cash flow (FCF) is more predictable and that the most important action in determining the right price at which to buy shares is figuring out the FCF the business is currently throwing off, and the prospects for that FCF to grow in the future.

The online travel giant continues to generate substantial free cash flow as it grows at an impressive rate, and we love its net cash position, inclusive of long - term investments.

In fact, over the next three years, free cash flow is projected to grow at an impressive 9.5 % compound annual growth rate...

Like owning a home the more time you give a free cash flow generating business to grow the better off your investment will become.

In the past Amazon grew off of its free cash flows.

At a high - level, I see QCOM as a conservatively capitalized (Debt / Equity = 36 %), free cash flow generating (FCF = ~ $ 5B 12 - months YTD), financially stable company (A + / Stable, A1 / Stable), who recently grew their dividend by over 10 %.

Using publicly available sources including Yahoo Finance, Morningstar.com, and Google Finance, this portfolio will try to identify companies with longer - term records of growing revenue, earnings, and free cash flow.

Even if you don't need the cash flow from these RRSP withdrawals, it may enable you to contribute to your TFSA accounts and grow more assets in a tax - free environment (with tax - free withdrawals) rather than a tax - deferred one (with taxable withdrawals).

Throw in other goodies such as growing earnings, revenues and free cash flow, and you have a great business with a fine track record.

Just keep it simple, look for obvious situations that you can understand, and try to find businesses that will grow intrinsic value over time that produce stable free cash flow and high returns on capital that are available at cheap prices.

I prefer to see at least 5 years of increasing earnings, enough free cash flow to easily cover the dividend, little to no debt and growing margins.

GE's continued dividend growth is now based solely on its industrial divisions growing, improving operating margins, and increasing free cash flow.

Management needs to get each business division growing and improving its operations to boost free cash flow in order to continue to grow its dividend each year at a high rate.

These types of businesses can drain free cash flows quickly, even though cash flow from operations is consistently positive and growing.

That said, the company's free cash flow should remain strong and grow after its acquisitions start to fully materialize, transforming AT&T into a modern - day vertically integrated entertainment and communication company.

What's more important, as you pointed out, dividends now exceed annual free cash flow, and the need to grow their debt levels to grow dividends.

First of all, you want to make sure that you buy a solid company with growing earnings, cash flow, and even free cash flow.

Some of these stocks are producing huge amounts of free cash flow and are paying (and growing in a few cases) their dividends.

Earnings growth could remain in the mid-single digit range for the foreseeable future, but the dividend has lots of room to grow relative to free cash flow.

AAPL is the glaring exception, but notice how the other three's stock prices have gone basically nowhere in the last 10 years while their businesses have steadily improved year after year, producing more sales, more free cash flow, high book values, buying back shares, and implementing and growing dividend payouts.

As a group, they yield 3.25 % with relatively low payout ratios, healthy balance sheets, and a stable and growing earnings and free cash flow base that should allow for steady dividend increases over time.