In addition, it has delivered three consecutive years
of positive free cash flow, which suggests its dividend could be sustainable.
Deep credit research The team's value - oriented process uses fundamental credit research to identify issues
with positive free cash flow, solid collateral, and proven management.
While requiring seven years
of positive free cash flows might introduce a bias, this bias is likely to be similar to take of most value investors.
For long - term stock awards, the company decided in August of 2016 to give executives performance based RSU's that would be granted if the company earned $ 25 million in
positive free cash flow over any four consecutive quarters by 2020.
The positive EBITDA milestone is important because, as The Street also notes, hitting a positive adjusted EBITDA is not the same from
achieving positive free cash flow or GAAP profits.
Conservatively, the Company appears to produce $ 25 - $ 35 million of run - rate EBITDA, require approximately $ 9 million in maintenance capital expenditures and have $ 4 - $ 8 million of taxes, interest and preferred dividends in total, leaving $ 12 - $ 18 million of
positive free cash flow annually with which to further invest in the business and / or amortize debt.
However, this time I once again filtered out the financial sector but I instead only included companies that grew free cash flows over the past seven years above zero and also
exhibited positive free cash flow in each of the seven years.
As the company's brands have grown in popularity and operations have expanded across the globe, PG has enjoyed consistent and
predictable positive free cash flow, regardless of bear markets and economic conditions around the world.
While I mentioned above my concern about the free cash flow payout ratio, it's important to note that over the last 5 and 10 year period Hershey's has a
running positive free cash flow balance after accounting for paying the dividend.
With record quarterly production and deliveries, Tesla achieved GAAP profitability and
generated positive free cash flow in Q3 2016, while remaining on track with Model 3 and Gigafactory development.
Assuming Intelsat generates positive operating cash flow on par with those years — $ 464 million generated in 2017, and $ 684 million generated in 2016 — this means there's a very good chance that Intelsat will generate
positive free cash flow over the next few years as well.
Geoff Gannon gave me the idea to look at stocks that have produced 10 years
of positive free cash flow, so I set up a non-financial screen for this on Morningstar.
My best ideas at the moment is to look for net nets with a healthy > 5 Piotroski F - Score or look for companies
with positive free cash flow (cash from operations — capex) or both
At some point, companies with huge capital outlays must produce
positive free cash flow in order to justify any stock price at all.
«Sprint has generated
positive free cash flow in years and years and they were burning cash before they even started spending money on their network.»
We have made great progress on this in 2016, highlighted by our GAAP profit and
positive free cash flow in Q3.
You can see that in nine of the past 10 years, General Electric has generated
positive free cash flow, totaling to a cumulative $ 385 billion.
This Model Portfolio only includes stocks that earn an Attractive or Very Attractive rating, have
positive free cash flow and economic earnings, and offer a dividend yield greater than 3 %.
Instead of trading four to six times, maybe we trade higher, somewhere between seven or eight times due to
that positive free cash flow metric.
The Company's
positive free cash flow should more than offset the $ 8 million of scheduled reduction in Availability under the LOC before its March 2011 maturity.
Before taking into account
the positive free cash flow generated between October 2009 and March 2011, the Company is levered through its LOC at less than 1.5 x its run - rate EBITDA.
To give a sense of that, we recently did a global screen of nearly 5,800 non-financial companies with market values greater than $ 300 million,
positive free cash flow over the past 12 months, at least an 8 % return on equity over the past 12 months, net debt to EBITDA of no more than 2.5 x and a trailing EV / EBIT multiple of no more than 8x.
This issue's focus is on firms with possible «hidden» earnings, indicated by a record of
positive free cash flow that is currently greater than earnings and that are trading with low price - to - free - cash - flow ratios.
Some young high growth companies with less than 7 years of
positive free cash flows might not be included in the data analyzed, but those are the types of companies that must be analyzed more carefully due to greater difficulty in predicting their future cash flows.
As seen below, the company has generated
positive free cash flow in each of the last 10 years, providing it with flexibility to pay down debt, increase the dividend, make opportunistic acquisitions, and repurchase shares.
Zero Hedge screened Russell 2000 companies finding 10 companies with negative enterprise value, and then further subdivided the screen into companies with negative, and
positive free cash flow (defined here as EBITDA — Cap Ex).
This decrease might be due to
positive free cash flows.
There are 5161 stocks overall in this database ($ 10 million market cap), so around 12 % of the companies out there have produced 10 straight years of
positive free cash flow.
This positive free cash flow has allowed management to faithfully increase PG stocks» dividend every year for over five decades running.
Positive cash flow is also tempting, but: i) I don't mean positive operating cash flow, I mean
positive free cash flow — this may seem extreme, but in most instances I think it's prudent to treat all exploration spending as basically worthless,'til its value is actually confirmed (if ever) via a proving up of reserves / resources, or an actual sale, ii) how often do you come across junior resource stocks with positive free cash flow anyway?!
As bad as IMN is performing, it is still on track for
a positive free cash flow in 2011.