How to Use cash flow in a Sentence

cash flow

noun
  • We were able to maintain a steady cash flow.
  • The company is looking at new ways to generate cash flow.
  • The company recently changed its formula to link more of his pay to cash flow given the pressing need to pay down debt.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And by safe, the focus is on companies with solid balance sheets and cash flows to support the dividend .
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2024
  • A single month of vacancy or one major repair can gut a single-family rental’s cash flow for the entire year.
    Patrick Grimes, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • The company expects to fund the repurchases through cash on hand and future cash flow from operations.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 16 Sep. 2024
  • No matter how great your product is or how spot-on your marketing efforts are, without a positive cash flow your business will not survive long term.
    Petr Marek, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Make sure a company has a strong market presence and a promising future, with not too much debt and ample revenue and cash flow, plus solid management.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 11 May 2022
  • But the report also pointed that those with a higher income are obviously more likely to have a high credit score, and make up the cash flow gaps with other money products.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 10 June 2022
  • Retailers normally would also need to purchase goods in advance where unsold goods can affect a company’s cash flow and storage being an issue.
    Tiffany Lung, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Companies like Alphabet or Salesforce generate billions of dollars of free cash flow and post robust revenues.
    Steven Dudash, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • After a cash flow burn of $747 million in the most recent quarter, Kocharyan believes that will lead to heightened concern about the cash Peloton has to work with.
    Michelle Chapman and Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • Strong free cash flow and sustainable dividends enhance AT&T's value proposition.
    Gurufocus, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Both times, Petersen appealed to customers, who purchased gift cards and other items to reinvigorate cash flow; the second time around, customers bought more than two hundred thousand dollars in store credit.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • That crimped the cash flow of builders, leading to a record amount of defaults.
    Pearl Liu, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Rapid growth can be a warning sign for a business’ cash flow.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The cash flow tab presents a nice visual of your money in and money out each month.
    Kevin J. Ryan, wsj.com, 29 Dec. 2023
  • But a lot of that free cash flow went to debt reduction, so it was spoken for in a way.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This Week: Earnings, cash flow and money ideas are tops on your menu.
    Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 16 June 2024
  • Puk said the amount of the monthly grants to the clinics will fluctuate based on revenue, cash flow, and the needs of patients.
    Harriet Jones, Hartford Courant, 19 Nov. 2022
  • In that time, direct-to-consumer brands can receive their goods, sell them, and have cash flow.
    WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The result is a less negative outlook for free cash flow….
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, cash flow in the sector is predictable — people have to die.
    Verena Sepp, Fortune, 18 May 2024
  • The first step is to create a detailed budget and cash flow projection.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Free cash flow tumbled by a whopping 43% when comparing the two time frames.
    Alex Harring,fred Imbert, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The tricky part for all savers is taking care of their future selves while being mindful of current cash flow.
    Halsey Schreier, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The group sports a free cash flow yield of about 7%-8%, which compares with about 5% for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
    David Wainer, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • This also led to free cash flow of $165 million, the second highest on record at the company.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Streaming services, many of them launched with few ads, and, sometimes, none, remove a major source of cash flow.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Looking to the second half of the year, the company lowered its full-year free cash flow guidance from the $16 billion range to the $14 billion range.
    Dallas News, 21 July 2022

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