Maintaining and upgrading existing lines is costly especially as they are spread out through many rural areas, and without the wireless business generating cash flow it is far more difficult.
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The company might be generating cash flow but many investors like to see management pay this cash to shareholders and many investors take the dividend policy into consideration before buying stocks, especially in consumer related sectors.
"Harley's true earnings and cash flow generating power are held back by production, " says Yurman.
Are profitable companies generating consistent cash flow, reducing expenses, and maintaining an orderly balance sheet?
The company was still generating decent cash flow, cutting costs and paying out a nearly 7% dividend yield.
Being on Twitter is generating a steady flow of inbound customer leads, partnership introductions and quality recruits for my business data startup Domo.
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The Internet and mobile era means that the way we deliver and consume products and services is increasingly instrumented, generating a data flow back to the provider.
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.
"Ergen is generating more cash flow than Hughes and has gained market share in every quarter for the last year and a half, " says SG Cowen analyst Tom Watts.
Despite tough market conditions, the carmaker said it still expects to meet its target of 55 million units sold in 2009 as it makes generating positive cash flow its priority.
The market has written RIM off to some extent but the core business is still generating nice cash flow and the valuation has gotten to the point that you may want to give RIM another look.
While financial stocks have gotten all the attention this year as the place to be for value, Swaim says Advisory Research sees more opportunity in industrial assets in the U.S. He argues these companies are generating higher cash flow.
Back in January, General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz told Forbes a 2010 IPO was a possibility, but only after a laundry list of criteria were checked off, including turning a profit, generating solid cash flow and having a compelling story to tell investors.
"The underlying trends driving their cash-flow-generating capacity are no different now than they were a day ago, " he said.
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.
Similarly, if Vimeo grew too quickly, we would have had to sacrifice all of the positive cash flow we were generating elsewhere to fund the storage and bandwidth requirements of this very high risk new venture.
It sells both nutritional values and naturally grown ingredients to a growing U.S. Spanish speaking demographic, generating growth and solid free cash flow to fund further expansion from both same store sales and store base growth alike.
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Fitch said Nokia needs to stabilize revenues and be capable of generating low-single digit non-IFRS operating profit margins and positive pre-dividend free cash flow, if it is to affirm the current rating.
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