It has also bought back shares in recent years yet maintains a pristine, virtually debt free balance sheet.
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GameStop also retired the remainder of its long-term debt establishing a debt-free balance sheet as we go into 2012.
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It too has a debt-free balance sheet and gets only marginally higher marks for share price value from the charts.
In addition, Alliance Fiber sports a debt-free balance sheet with 75 cents per share in cash, while Bookham's price-to-sales ratio is 1.6.
Better still, a stockmarket flotation last year left Nexans with a debt-free balance sheet, a rarity among big companies in capital-intensive industries.
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The Treasury is still working on a way to buy assets from banks to free their balance sheets.
Sartre never got the urges to belong and to be free into balance.
Rules on securitisation on both sides of the Atlantic, for instance, are making it harder for banks to shed risk and free up their balance-sheets to keep making new loans.
Meanwhile, the government must sort out the messy compromises that balance free speech on the Web against the violence it may inspire, as it has with every other kind of expression.
In laying down the guidelines, the department is trying to balance free-speech rights and the educational benefits of online learning with the dangers it sees in teachers and students getting too comfortable in less-traditional settings.
In the economics context, balance involves free market forces tempered by some laws to curb abuses by the overzealous and greed-stricken.
Reagan believed in both good and evil, but on balance thought free human beings were inclined toward good and became better the freer they were.
Incurring billions of losses on bonds once thought to be among the safest bets in the market and recorded as risk-free in banks' balance sheets under European accounting rules would be traumatic.
This requires us to make difficult decisions and balance concerns about free expression and community respect.
With plenty of free cash flow and strong balance sheets, the companies listed above, despite being in a very volatile industry with high operating leverage, would seem to be able to weather all but the most extreme technology slumps.
Corporate free cash flow and cash on balance sheet is at an all-time high.
But make no mistake: it is the very principle of free speech which hangs in the balance there.
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The apparent effect is to take loans and risk off banks' balance sheets and thus free up capital.
The strong cash flows generated by the company along with the absence of debt have resulted in a sturdy balance sheet and abundant free cash.
He's got a tough balancing act: He's got to shrink GMAC's balance sheet (to free up cash for the parent), while maintaining the unit's strong profits.
Three things: loyalty, an easy way to reward customers without simply giving away free money, and flexibility on their balance sheets.
Financially, Apollo Group is in stellar shape with a massive net cash position on its balance sheet, and significant free cash flow generation capabilities.
Store cards don't pose a problem if you are disciplined enough to pay off the balance within the interest-free period (typically between 35 and 55 days).
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.
Much of the balance of Penney stores are in free-standing locations, strip centers or downtowns.
When it comes to negotiating the terms of free agent contracts, what is the adequate balance between market value and significance to a team?
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On the Senate side, Republicans and Democrats alike warned that recent warming in relations with China through permanent free trade and other initiatives hangs in the balance.
He has vetoed efforts to lever up Tejon's balance sheet, which is virtually debt free.
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