Owner Earnings and Owners’ Cash Profits are similar types of cash flow for analysis of businesses and stocks. These metrics provide important insight into the cash flow of the entity, particularly the cash flow available for the owners.
...Are you ever confused by the different types of cash flow for investment analysis? There are too many cash flow calculations for most of us to have in memory. I know I get them confused and I’m a seasoned investor.
I believe you will find this a useful guide to the different types of cash flow and cash flow calculations, along with practical step by step comparisons and uses for each metric.
...Enterprise value (EV) and Enterprise value ratios are part of the basic foundation of stock analysis for value investors.
The purpose of Enterprise Value (EV) is two fold; First, to calculate what it would cost to purchase the entire company or business. Secondly, to provide a capital neutral valuation with which to compare with other companies.
...Net Cash Flow is important because it tells an investor how much cash a company is generating. After a company creates a product or service and pays all of its bills, the cash flow earnings is the cash the business has available to make money for the shareholders.
...Operating cash flow (OCF) is cash generated from normal operations of a business. As part of the Cash Flow Statement the cash flows of the operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities are segregated so the analyst can get a clear picture of the cash flows of all the company’s activities.
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As founder of the Arbor Investment Planner my passion is to educate and empower the individual investors to manage their own investment portfolio.
The Arbor Investment Planner is a value investment portfolio management guide for those individual investors who choose to manage their own money. I focus on ideas and concepts important to the self directed investor; but put special emphasis on risk management, value investing strategies, and proper asset allocation and diversification.
- Ken Faulkenberry
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