Sentence examples for cashflow return from inspiring English sources

According to HOLT Value Associates, a consultancy, Target has improved its "cashflow return on investment" (a measure of returns that strips out depreciation) more than any other American retailer since 1995.But in terms of overall returns, as well as sheer size, Target still lags Wal-Mart, retailing's gold standard.

The 3G unit is breaking even, although with $41 billion invested and $320m of free cashflow, its return on capital is still minuscule.

While every deal is totally unique, each RealCrowd investor would ideally receive rental cashflow or returns in proportion to their stake in the property.

As cashflow improves, bosses return the cash.

Now private-equity firms see the opportunity to pursue their classic strategy of buying firms by borrowing against cashflow, and then returning money to shareholders.

Having cut costs drastically, many firms in these industries can look forward to decent cashflow; as their confidence returns they may invest this cash in acquisitions to boost growth.If there is a new merger wave, a much larger proportion of the deals will be strategic than in the wave that ended in 2007.

In the wider market leading shares closed sharply higher, lifted by a strong opening on Wall Street and a good performance by oil group BP, which rose 9.5p to 445p after chief executive John Browne vowed to return all excess free cashflow to shareholders.

Van Beurden said: "By capping our capital spending in the period to 2020, investing in compelling projects, driving down costs and selling non-core positions, we can reshape Shell into a more focussed and more resilient company, with better returns and growing free cashflow per share".

On the positive side, Qinetiq has strong free cashflow and an attractive dividend yield, as well as a strong balance sheet which means it can make acquisitions or return cash to shareholders.

We believe that all the ingredients are well mixed and baking together to ensure a sustained recovery in fortunes: over the next five years we forecast that Greggs will grow earnings per share by 11% compound annual growth rate, that free cashflow will grow by 27% to £79m and return on invested capital will bounce-back to 19%, well above its weighted average cost of capital of 5.6%.

Infrastructure projects offer reliable cashflow, a hedge against inflation, low volatility and returns that are generally not correlated with other assets.