The deal visibly improved its cash flow and balance sheet, lifting its credit rating and helping reduce borrowing costs.
Corporate free cash flow and cash on balance sheet is at an all-time high.
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.
Thoughtful CEOs should be able to raise profits over time, and as the owner of those equities, you should benefit as a portion of those profits flow to your personal balance sheet.
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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.
In trying to manage the balance sheet and the customer flow business, they have to stay engaged, so they need to spend time out of the office.
Despite a rock-solid balance sheet and a continued strong flow of free cash?
Financially, Apollo Group is in stellar shape with a massive net cash position on its balance sheet, and significant free cash flow generation capabilities.
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?
The computers compare net income with cash flow from operations and the cash level on the balance sheet.
Cash flow and free cash flow have also surged, allowing Walter to strengthen its balance sheet.
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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.
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.
Now we are only days from this year end with the same hope that the well can be made to flow by December 31, 2012 so that reserves can be added to the MMR balance sheet.
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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.
They used satellite data concentrating on Greenland's coastline to examine how fast the thinning is happening, and they have found that the flow-speed of 12 glaciers, which together account for about half the discharge of water from the ice sheet, is increasing and fast.
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