The popular idea that a company is no more than the net present value of its future cash flow depends on guessing first what that cash flow is going to be, and then what future interest rates are going to be.
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Exclusive Resorts and Private Retreats have each had a positive cash flow from their first day of operation.
Meanwhile, they lost sight of improving balance sheets and excess cash flow, a first for this industry in its 35-year jet history.
Distributable cash flow in the first quarter jumped 36% from the year earlier period, so to say this dividend is safe may be an understatement.
Seagate expects these transactions and agreements to be meaningfully accretive to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share and cash flow within the first full year following the closing, and Seagate does not expect any material restructuring costs in connection with them.
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He also notes that the company was cash flow positive in the first half of their 2012 fiscal year.
Beyond high net cash levels, firms making the First Cut have positive earnings and operating cash flow, as well debt levels below the norm for their industry.
The deal is expected to be accretive to free cash flow ex integration costs in the first full year following the close.
The first signs of improving cash flow and margin expansion.
It has produced positive free cash flow for the last ten years and initiated its first quarterly dividend of 6 cents in May, 2012.
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The run of strong cash-flow growth for leveraged loan issuers continued in the first quarter.
Adjusted for inflation average hourly earnings in the United States have been decreasing over the past 50 years. 30 year old first time home purchasers do not have the cash flow to buy homes.
First, it is a way to ensure a continued cash flow even after you leave the business.
If your budget calls for buying it in the first quarter of 2013, accelerate the purchase if your cash flow allows, Butler says.
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As an entrepreneur, you need to paint a realistic picture of how to fund the venture, where and how the funds will be used, how you will ensure enough cash flow, and also your projected financial position of the venture over the first five years of its life.
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Plowing all his cash flow back into the business and bringing in some San Antonio investors, he first bought existing wells in gas-rich Dimmit and Webb counties.
Analysis based on cash flow would have stressed the over-valuation of the technology sector in the first weeks of 2000 and now warns about over-optimism in the consumer areas.
He contends that revenue visibility is improve, with U.S. and China capital spending growing, and Europe likely bottoming in the first half of 2012, and cost cutting driving margin and cash flow improvements, the time is now to get more bullish.
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He also likes electronic-products maker Hubbell Inc. (nyse: HUB.b - news - people ), which reported a 39% gain in first-quarter revenue, as well as 20 consecutive quarters of positive operating cash flow.
Wolves said the first phase, involving Buckingham Group as main contractors, will be funded from existing cash flow.
The French carmaker's pledge to focus on generating positive cash flow this year cheered investors on Thursday, even as it reported a 31.0% decline in first-quarter sales.
The wells tend to generate 20% annual returns on capital invested, he said, but they also tend to decline at rates up to 80% in the first 18 months, meaning companies that want to show an increase in production must roll the cash flow into an expanding number of wells to stay ahead of the decline.
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