The deal visibly improved its cash flow and balance sheet, lifting its credit rating and helping reduce borrowing costs.
Financially, Apollo Group is in stellar shape with a massive net cash position on its balance sheet, and significant free cash flow generation capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
Cash flow and free cash flow have also surged, allowing Walter to strengthen its balance sheet.
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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.
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?
Coke has plenty of cash flow for debt service but Apple boasts the far superior balance sheet.
Despite a rock-solid balance sheet and a continued strong flow of free cash?
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.
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.
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