Capital Allocation: OK, I cheated a bit, I should have revealed Record is a cash - rich / zero debt company (with no pension / contingent liabilities)--
with free cash flow that consistently matches / exceeds earnings — so arguably, it's much cheaper than it shows up on the screens.
The other risk of course is that management does something stupid
with the free cash flow or makes some self - serving investment.
2 - Their reported profits in the past doesn't really line up
with free cash flow.
The main company will be relatively clean,
with free cash flow being a high percentage of earnings.
Portfolio rule 6 does not deal with accounting per se, but management behavior
with free cash flow.
I like companies where market size is huge enough to maintain the high growth rate
with free cash flow generation while keeping light balance sheet.
The idea is to increase equity by paying down debt
with the free cash flow and also to benefit from the asset appreciating over time.
Even
with the free cash flow depressed, the dividend is sustainable and capable of growing.
With free cash flow weak, Arcelor has resorted to piling a lot of debt on its books — about $ 12.1 billion net of cash, which makes its stock look even more expensive to me.
Other companies, such as Starwood and Hyatt, have been more inconsistent
with its free cash flow plans, he wrote in a Mar. 3 report.
Not exact matches
«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.
Lance was not alone among the oil CEOs looking to attract investors back to the spurned sector,
with Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden saying Shell and the industry are working to achieve better shareholder returns through strong
free cash flow and lower debt.
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.
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.
With a stock price of $ 45, Twitter would be worth 32 times its 2018
free cash flow, which he wrote in a research note was «overly optimistic.»
Derek Dley, an analyst
with Canaccord Genuity, points out that Cott's new strategy doesn't just improve its earnings profile but also boosts its
free cash flow, ability to pay down debt and overall stability.
Tesla burned through
cash during the quarter
with a negative
free cash flow of $ 276.8 million.
As well, now finished
with its LTE rollout, Verizon is also spending less on capital expenditures, so it's generating more
free cash flow to fund a deal.
«We improved our costs and earnings to emerge as a financially stronger business,
with cash from continuing operations of $ 1.5 billion and
free cash flow of $ 341 million,» president and CEO Gary J. Goldberg said in the company's 2014 annual report.
In a note, analyst Michael Senno wrote that «as an owner of sports cable networks and teams, we believe that MSG is well positioned to capitalize on the increasing value of premium sports content, which should result in AOCF and
free cash flow growth above its peers and, combined
with incremental leverage, lead to solid shareholder returns.»
«The combined CSRA and GDIT offers innovative, competitive and compelling solutions to our customers, and provides attractive
free cash flow coupled
with good incremental return on capital for investors,» Phebe Novakovic, chairman and chief executive officer of General Dynamics, said in a statement.
Similarly, looking at it from an enterprise value basis, assuming a
free cash flow margin of 25 % for FY18 (consensus estimates are at 24 %) on sales growth of 12 % (in - line
with consensus) along
with a EV / FCF multiple of 11x (in - line
with the peak multiple leading up to the iPhone 6 cycle), we come up
with a stock value in the mid $ 160s as well.
In reality,
free cash flow has been highly negative
with a cumulative - $ 38.4 billion in losses over the same time frame.
Even Fox
with its large businesses looks like it is deciding it should either get bigger or sell; it also would be selling the businesses producing the minority of its
free cash flow.
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In plain English, that means there are fewer meaningful adjustments in the accounting records of the corporation so the «quality of earnings» is higher in that the reported profits are almost in line
with the conservatively calculated
free cash flow.
The report also revealed a previously unannounced $ 20 million funding round in February, but it came
with conditions from the company's lead investor that it needed to become
cash flow positive over the next four quarters and to achieve a secured debt -
free balance sheet.
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.
With a high savings rate, hard work either in your career or side jobs, research into
cash flowing assets (
free on this site people!!!)
«This momentum, along
with a continued focus on the cost structure, is driving improvements in profitability metrics and adjusted
free cash flow,» said Claure in the earnings release.
With $ 50 billion in excess
cash on the balance sheet and $ 9 billion in annual
free cash flow, ORCL has more than enough
cash on hand to support its buyback program, and more than it could reasonably hope to invest profitably in the near term.
It's somewhat stunning that FB and GOOG trade around a 5 %
free cash flow yield, which is roughly in line
with the broader market averages.
Dividend yields from companies
with low or negative
free cash flow can not be trusted as much because they may not be able to sustain their dividend for much longer.
Along
with the acquisition spending, this increased capex has led CST to have nearly $ 1.7 billion in negative
free cash flows over the past three years.
Companies
with strong
free cash flow provide higher quality dividend yields because we know they have the
cash flow to support the dividend.
With consistent profit growth, strong
free cash flow, and the opportunity for share price appreciation, Brocade Communications Systems (BRCD) is this week's Long Idea.
With 6 % interest rates (mine was 2.8 % for student loan), I'd probably use 80 % of your
free cash flow to pay off the student loan debt, and 20 % to build your savings.
On the flip side, dividends from companies
with low or negative
free cash flow can not be trusted as much because the company may not be able to sustain paying dividends.
We grapple
with last quarter's results and discuss the company's worsening
free cash flow position, delivery expectations, and margin goals.
The consumer discretionary sector has changed its stripes over the years and is now largely composed of mature companies
with strong
free -
cash -
flow yield and higher margins.
Companies
with strong
free cash flow provide higher quality dividend yields because we know the firm has the
cash to support its dividend.
It lets him get away
with misrepresenting the Company's «
free cash flow» when it makes its quarterly «earnings» report to shareholders.
Photo Credit: Regeneron.com In the quest for a GARP stock
with room to run, low short interest, positive
free cash flow, a surprising find dropped out of the
With Boeing recently announcing a $ 18 - billion share repurchase authorization, Safran said it may have to use a combination of debt and / or
free cash flow in the event of an all -
cash deal.
Since the beginning of 2015, Netflix's
free cash flow has declined by $ 644 million,
with seemingly no signs of slowing down.
«This isn't unique to us, but we want companies
with large amounts of
free cash flow, good business dynamics, a proven ability to profitably reinvest that
cash flow and management properly incentivized to do the right thing for shareholders.
With fundamental results coming in largely as expected during the year, we believe the stock price decline was primarily due to industry and market pressures on its peer group, and we believe the current high
free cash flow yield makes the stock an attractive investment.
For example, the above mentioned NFLX — which is a great company
with great subscriber growth rates — reported
free cash flows of a negative $ 2 billion last year and plans to burn through $ 3 to $ 4 billion in the current year.
There are big sectors of the market — food companies, for example — where companies believed to be of high - quality,
with low single - digit growth, are trading at 20 - 25x
free cash flow.
The firms rising costs, coupled
with its negative
free cash flow -LRB-- $ 1.6 billion in 2015) are not a winning business strategy.