The deal visibly improved its cash flow and balance sheet, lifting its credit rating and helping reduce borrowing costs.
With plenty of free cash flow and strong balance sheets, the companies listed above, despite being in a very volatile industry with high operating leverage, would seem to be able to weather all but the most extreme technology slumps.
All have attributes that make them targets, such as having plenty of cash, good balance sheets or strong cash flow.
Corporate free cash flow and cash on balance sheet is at an all-time high.
The computers compare net income with cash flow from operations and the cash level on the balance sheet.
Financially, Apollo Group is in stellar shape with a massive net cash position on its balance sheet, and significant free cash flow generation capabilities.
Cash flow and free cash flow have also surged, allowing Walter to strengthen its balance sheet.
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Nowhere on the income statement, balance sheet or cash flow statement is there any mention of reserves or valuation allowances.
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Getting a handle on a company's future health involves looking at it from all sides--the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
Besides slicing and dicing business segment information, Axa Rosenberg's model looks at each company's overall balance sheet, cash flow from operations and net income.
In a conference call with investors Friday, Mr. Hayward emphasized that the company's strong balance sheet and cash flow allow it to absorb most of the cost of the incident.
Meanwhile, they lost sight of improving balance sheets and excess cash flow, a first for this industry in its 35-year jet history.
In this case, Mr. Slee believes the stock still has a lot of upside potential thanks to a strong balance sheet and impressive cash flow.
One is: You may be well be aware that free cash flow yield across markets and cash on balance sheets of corporate, is something that has been talked about a great deal.
Just about every day we see large corporations with strong balance sheets and excess cash flow decide the best use they can make of the money is to return it to shareholders by repurchasing shares that increase the earnings per share behind all the remaining shares.
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What is left is free cash flow that can either be added to the balance sheet or distributed to shareholders via dividends or float shrink.
Are profitable companies generating consistent cash flow, reducing expenses, and maintaining an orderly balance sheet?
The theme running through these properties is low to moderate price-earnings ratios, impeccable balance sheet strength, high free cash flow generation and the capacity to indulge in financial engineering in the form of share buybacks, dividends and deal activity.
Coke has plenty of cash flow for debt service but Apple boasts the far superior balance sheet.
Many believe capital deployment should follow a "pecking-order theory" that prescribes that managements should apply their cash flow, in order of priority, to fix their balance sheet if overleveraged, fund organic investments, pay dividends, fund acquisitive growth and, only when there is additional cash left over, to distribute it via share repurchases.
Corporate balance sheets have never been more liquid, and cash flow rests far above capital spending.
These are globally recognized brands with strong balance sheets, experienced management, high levels of cash flow and above-average dividends.
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Despite a rock-solid balance sheet and a continued strong flow of free cash?
So you had a number of things that freed up cash flow for consumers, and it allowed them to not only deleverage their balance sheet but continue to spend, albeit on different items.
Warnsman said the big risk for them was a weak balance sheet, leaving them little room to maneuver if they didn't have cash flow.
But it also took a big risk by ploughing half of its free cash flow into financial services, betting that returns from this growing business would justify the increase in its balance-sheet leverage.
This healthy free cash flow has enabled the company to pay down the debt from the Washington Group acquisition, leaving it with a strong balance sheet and a net cash position.
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