Consumables such as high-margin toner cartridges provide a steady flow of cash on the back of this printer business.
It pays dividends out of a flow of cash called "funds from operations"--essentially, net income with depreciation added back in.
The industry makes much of its profit in the unfettered American market, and price controls threaten that flow of cash.
The flow of cash from Filipinos working in the Middle East is also a source of concern, given the discord in the region.
Sprint's latest financials show that while the network is slowly stemming the flow of cash from its veins, it's not quite there in terms of turning a profit.
Boeing shares had gained 11 percent in the three months prior to Monday as investors anticipated a growing flow of cash from Boeing's faster production of its big planes.
They have their own will to power and will to create and, with a seemingly endless flow of cash, they believe they can fulfill their visions for a well-ordered life.
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You can allocate your best employees to explore new lines of business, you can count on a consistent flow of cash from your more mature product or service lines, and you can focus your management team on offense.
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Both sides may have to put off work on the new Joseph and Joyce Wing of the local hospital while donors are forced to back to plumbing jobs, making the flow of cash work as well as it can until new supplies arrive.
In addition, Cyprus's government is preparing aggressive curbs on the flow of cash out of the country, which will cap the amount of cash people can bring out of the country, as well as the amount of credit-card purchases of goods outside Cyprus.
Net operating cash flow is JPY 200 billion, against net investment cash flow of -47 billion and financing cash flow of -184 billion.
We focus on the cash economics of a business, the cash-flow generation of that business, and the distribution of that cash flow to shareholders.
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With the majority of CDOs being backed by mortgages, the principal-only tranche has a known future cash flow, but at a variable rate of return, while the interest-only tranche has both an unknown cash flow and an unknown rate of return on that cash flow.
Despite a rock-solid balance sheet and a continued strong flow of free cash?
Mr Huang tells me that so voluminous was the flow of public cash into the luxury hotel industry that it was distorting the market with new five-star establishments planned and built on the back of it.
And, if you look at the cash flow of a venture, you see investors putting cash in, and the management team taking most of it out in salaries.
Despite the large volumes of cash flow generated by most of these companies, the leveraged buyout firms seem to be steering clear of two sectors prominent on our list: the highly competitive auto industry and the highly regulated utilities.
If a firm can deploy the incremental dollar of cash flow at a rate of return greater than its cost of capital, it should pursue acquisitions or internal capital projects, as these methods will be the fastest way to build shareholder value.
We define cash productivity as the amount of free cash flow that a retailer produces per unit of retail space.
We decided to look at dividend to free cash flow to compare how much companies are paying out of the cash flow available.
Therefore, at least two-thirds of the debt is likely to have difficulty in quickly generating any kind of cash flow, but 42 percent of those loans are to mature in 2011-12.
The graduate of the Harvard Business School reckons she can make a reasonable annual return of between 6% and 11%, when you factor in the rising demand for the short supply of farmland together with the annual cash flow of the farms.
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Qteros and Praj will ask for an up-front licensing fee and then a percentage of the cash flow, a kind of royalty, from the ongoing operation.
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But if a company keeps growing free cash flow and uses part of the cash to keep shrinking the float, why would not such a company outperform an equivalent dividend payer?
We have to be a more effective partner in both reducing demand for drugs here in the United States and for stemming the flow of weapons and cash that help to finance and facilitate these cartels.
That General Mills managed such robust dividend payouts without putting upward pressure on the dividend payout ratio (the percentage of profits the dividend represents) and the cash dividend payout ratio (the proportion of free cash flow that goes to dividend payouts) is good evidence that its dividend gravy train is in great shape.
Seagate said it will fund the dividend and share repurchases through a combination of cash on hand, future cash flow from operations and potential alternative sources of financing.
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Moreover, although AC Milan posted a net loss of 9.8 million euro last year the team generated positive cash flow of 29 million euro.
Western Digital this afternoon reduced its outlook for its fiscal first quarter ending September, while also setting a new policy of paying out out 50% of free cash flow to holders in the form of dividends and share repurchases.
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Analysis of free cash flow also facilitates management's comparisons of our operating results to competitors' operating results.
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