Investment site The Motley Fool has run an interesting article discussing measuring companies’ strength by looking at cash flow statements rather than just income statements. The article focuses on Redbox parent Coinstar, and whether the company’s cash flow breakdown should be a cause for concern for investors.
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Says the Fool:
“In general, by taking a close look at the cash moving in and out of the business, you can better understand whether the last batch of earnings brought money into the company, or merely disguised a cash gusher with a pretty headline.”
Which brings us to the Fool‘s comments on Coinstar. Accompanying the article is a fascinating chart detailing Coinstar’s cash flow components, including flow from “questionable sources” such as changes in taxes payable, tax benefits from stock options and asset sales.
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The Fool recommends that investors should become cautious when cash flow from apocryphal sources exceeds 10% of a company’s operating cash flow. While Coinstar has heavy capital expenditures that give it a smaller amount of free cash flow than some of its peers, the company has just 2.4% of its operating cash flow coming from “questionable sources” and is pronounced as “clean” by the Fool.
(via The Motley Fool)
Funny. Didn’t someone believe that this was a negative redbox article?
Not negative though it is interesting that Coinstar was used as an example. Perhaps the author believes there is something hidden that he could not find.
Please JS give it a rest. What would said reporter base his belief of a hidden something on? Blogs and chat rooms trolled by VBG minions? No matter how hard you wish for some nefarious activities to be going on at the company the odds are that this is a typical American business just trying to grow its revenue.
When it happens, don’t say you weren’t warned.
A broken clock tells the correct time once a day.
Stay focused on the lotions JS.
so we are warned?
a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day dumbass
Am/pm. Get back to selling deem lotions stock boy.
You have to specify: analog or digital. . .and even some digital clocks do not have am or pm, like the one on my oven. . . so, a broken clock that follows non-military time and has no am or pm designation is correct 2 times a day.
Isn’t it more than a little hard to figure a company’s cash flow, when the company’s namesake product (Coinstar, the change-conversion machine) is a product that consists of converting peoples’ money? I dunno, that just kinda struck me as “derp”…
If you Google “Coinstar” you will see that even Wikipedia knows that their Money-Conversion machines are only a small part of the Giant itself.
John Small made me laugh again (as usual) Keep up the bad work Johnny.