Its steady and positive cash flow will help fund more speculative ventures into wineries and wholesalers.
"My goal is a stable business, doing good, positive cash flow and minimal stress, " he says.
Most important, the company has turned the corner to become a positive cash flow generator.
They know that positive cash flow solves all problems and that borrowed money never means profitability.
Exclusive Resorts and Private Retreats have each had a positive cash flow from their first day of operation.
What is the length of time before you can expect positive cash flow?
Our objective for 2010 was for the Company to generate a positive cash flow and remain a going concern.
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Reliant, with its large sales force and positive cash flow, was supposed to help Alkermes bring those drugs to market.
Ellison conceived Oracle as a low-overhead consultancy, a strategy that helped the young company achieve positive cash flow from the start.
Nevertheless, he estimates that enough of them will pay to reach people outside its network to generate substantial positive cash flow.
Companies with positive cash flow have at least some valuation, whereas some firms, like exploration companies, may end up with nothing economical.
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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.
Icahn, the owner, wants to position the company into a positive cash flow position and attempt to wean it away from its addiction to debt financing.
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.
Yet one notable exception, the auto retailer AutoNation, experienced profitability and positive cash flow in 2008 and 2009, and its stock price has appreciated nearly 400% since October.
Last December, Elon Musk, chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors, likewise used his personal Twitter account to report that his company had positive cash flow.
Curle then cut staff from 22 to 11 and steered the company to positive cash flow by only going after customers with consistently big budgets, like manufacturers and the military.
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.
Longer term plays such as heavy oil should be put into the mix for positive cash flow, as should joint ventures with serious NOCs to give BP much more market and political cover.
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.
Happiness is positive cash flow.
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Relay is confident that the models that have worked for it so far it says it earns a net positive cash flow per transaction, though the company is not yet profitable will continue to work in Washington and Baltimore, where the new funding will help build scale, as well as help the company expand its presence on mobile.
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And, for the latest 12-month period, we required both positive earnings and positive excess cash flow.
It has produced positive free cash flow for the last ten years and initiated its first quarterly dividend of 6 cents in May, 2012.
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Solid earners usually throw off lots of positive free cash flow.
But observe how performance suddenly gets better after I limited the results to companies with positive free cash flow in each of the past three years.
Without the ability to tap banks for additional capital, companies moved to large positive cash-flow positions and self-financed their growth, GaveKal research said in a note this morning.
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Still, Gilt expects positive operating cash flow by the end of this year, as new CEO Michelle Peluso amps up efforts to streamline operations and grow existing lines of businesses.
He also likes electronic-products maker Hubbell Inc. (nyse: HUB.b - news - people ), which reported a 39% gain in first-quarter revenue, as well as 20 consecutive quarters of positive operating cash flow.
Wahlstrom says the company meets the requirements for a leveraged buyout or management buyout, chiefly positive free cash flow and low financial leverage, and says it is "more likely than not" that a buyout will happen.
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