free cash flow

“From people I've talked to in the industry, and this is purely anecdotal, I don't have data to support this, but an increasingly large percentage of private equity LBOs are facing what they would call, quote unquote, liquidity problems. What is a liquidity pro…”

“One of the things we've also learned during this process is the importance of control, not only over the strategic direction of the business, but also over the use of free cashflow and how you're going to reinvest that free cashflow becomes very important to t…”

“What we decided to do was to expand our view of what the underlying value of an asset was from the simple snapshot of how much free cash flow is generating at a point in time to a point of view around within the first two years of our ownership, what is the pr…”

“If you're restructuring your deals where you're converting some of your current cash into PIC, there's only one reason you're doing it. You're doing it because the company doesn't have the free cash flow to service your loans.”

“In the best instances, these are companies that are generating material amounts of free cash flow and shrinking the float so that as time passes, if the stock's flat, it's getting better and it's getting cheaper.”