TBC - AT&T: Look At That Cash Flow
2024-05-06 07:50:57 ET
Summary
- Cash flow improvement demonstrated by AT&T's management.
- Cash flow will often improve before earnings because turnaround managements often make more conservative accounting choices, leading to larger depreciation and less capitalization.
- Declining capital expenditures lead to a significant increase in free cash flow. This more than offsets the distribution decline from DirecTV.
- Oftentimes, the cash flow statement proves to be a more important and reliable indicator of financial health than the income statement.
- Earnings is usually the last measure to show improvement in a turnaround situation.
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AT&T: Look At That Cash Flow