cash flow

"Shortage of income, shortage of money, no cash flow from the banks."

“These provisions aim to lower effective investment costs and improve cash flow, thereby encouraging equipment purchases, facility upgrades, and research and development expansion,” says SocGen.

But in this case, it comes from not knowing how long the high returns for colossal capex will last, after which Amazonian levels of free cash flow are inevitable.

“And if they do, they may have to do like Verizon, which carries a higher valuation than the cable guys and pays out almost all of its free cash flow as a dividend.”

The company has been bleeding cash with free cash flow in negative territory in all but three of its last 14 quarters.