Despite historically low levels of natural gas prices, Chesapeake Energy?s operating cash flow has remained positive.
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At less than 5% of operating cash flow in 2009, its capital expenditures are miniscule.
But Comcast executives also emphasize that NBC News is less than 1% of Comcast's operating cash flow.
It is paying down debt by selling a titanium dioxide business, as well as through operating cash flow.
When operating cash flow is less than net income, there is something wrong with the cash cycle.
One is that you have to pay close attention to fundamentals like earnings, operating cash flow and book value.
As borrowings have grown, even increases in production and operating cash flow have not been enough to increase shareholder value.
In the fourth quarter and full-year 2011, Allscripts had record bookings, accelerating revenue growth, strong earnings growth and record operating cash flow.
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The last metric, known by some as free cash flow, is calculated by subtracting dividends and capital expenditures from operating cash flow.
Operating cash flow was up 11.4% for the quarter and 9% annually.
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Net operating cash flow is JPY 200 billion, against net investment cash flow of -47 billion and financing cash flow of -184 billion.
Second, our substantial operating cash flow, which we expect to grow in the double digits in 2009, gives us the financial flexibility to execute our plans.
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision focused on Ethernet-based telecommunications services, saw an adjusted operating cash flow increase of 17% as compared to the previous year.
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So you have the leveraged company capitalized in the market at 4.2 times operating cash flow versus 8.5 times for unleveraged Company A. Exactly the same business.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today reported a second consecutive quarter of double-digit percentage growth in year-over-year earnings results and significant increases in operating cash flow.
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Wall Street is learning to disregard its long-running unprofitability and looking at its doubling of operating cash flow this year (that's net before depreciation, interest and taxes).
Beyond high net cash levels, firms making the First Cut have positive earnings and operating cash flow, as well debt levels below the norm for their industry.
"Broadcom delivered record quarterly revenue and operating cash flow in Q3 driven by strength across all of our business segments, " said Scott McGregor, Broadcom's President and Chief Executive Officer.
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The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to our operating cash flow.
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.
"If you're a banker and you're looking at the ability to repay debt at the corporate level, there is virtually no operating cash flow, " says a Hong Kong securities analyst.
Consider: Since March of 2001 Cytyc's free cash flow (operating cash flow less spending on property, plant and equipment) has increased from 26 cents per share to 83 cents per share.
I've also reduced the expected payment from Cloosh by a year and a half's worth of operating cash flow, since it will not be received until the end of 2013.
Although the company has grown its oil and gas production and operating cash flow, it has taken a lot of new debt and common equity raising to accomplish these growth objectives.
The operating cash flow statement will catch these gimmicks.
He puts out a weekly letter of alerts with both short and long ideas (the latter for companies with improving operating cash flow), and his site has a database searchable by ticker.
Markowski uses forest-based terminology to classify companies: seedlings and saplings are companies on the make, while kindling refers to companies with negative operating cash flow that are ready to go in flames.
In his now famous presentation, Einhorn broke down the case for shorting Green Mountain Coffee: the company had very low operating cash flow and negative free cash flow that was getting more negative.
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