Martinka Consulting
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% He knew cash flow. Or should we say he knew short-term cash flow.
BCG
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. The result: investments are managed opportunistically as each faction seeks to optimize its own favored KPI quarter by quarter—whether it is cash flow, earnings, solvency, market risk exposure, rating requirements, or investment performance.
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Martinka Consulting
JUNE 3, 2017
Fast Company recently had an article titled, “ Forget Startups Just Buy a Small Business from a Retiring Entrepreneur.” Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. Now for the top three points in the article.
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. Record number of small business sales in 2018!
Harvard Business
JULY 17, 2018
Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2016
Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 25, 2017
companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016). InsideSales Labs, a division of our company, InsideSales.com, recently conducted research analysis on 9.8 million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. Collectively, these companies annually sold a combined $54 billion, averaging $360 million each.
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