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Just as your pulse is checked during a routine physical, free cash flow is used as an indicator of a company's health. It equals the cash brought in from operations minus the money needed to pay the bills. Think about leftover money in your checking account after you pay this month's bills.
Investors and analysts see this leftover money as a gauge of a company's ability to perform. It is available for transactions such as handing out dividends and working on new products.
Some argue free cash flow is wrongly overshadowed by the emphasis often placed on earnings. Earnings numbers can be manipulated and don't always tell the whole story -- and earnings don't mean much if there's nothing left over after a company pays its expenses. Even if you bring in a six-figure salary, but no money left after paying the bills, are you in great financial shape?
You don't have to be Einstein to figure out free cash flow. To calculate the number, subtract the company's expenditures and dividends from its operating cash flow.
If the free cash flow is written in red ink, it doesn't necessarily signal curtains. This is common for young companies looking to grow. It also could be a result of heavy investments, which in the long run could be worth a standing ovation.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
DemandTec TradePoint Network(TM) Seals 1.5 Million Deals
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SAN CARLOS, Calif., July 21, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ ----DemandTec, Inc. (Nasdaq: DMAN), a leading provider of on-demand merchandising and marketing software services for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, today announced that 1.5 million trade promotion deals have now been negotiated on the DemandTec TradePoint Network(TM) since its inception. The company also reported that the total number of deals managed on the network has increased 50% since December 2007, driven by a community of more than 5,000 end users.
"DemandTec is honored to be trusted by so many leading retailers and consumer products manufacturers for such mission critical work as trade promotion collaboration. We are committed to seeing the DemandTec TradePoint Network continue to grow not only in enterprise and user adoption, but in scope as well," Marc Dietz, vice president of marketing at DemandTec.
The DemandTec TradePoint Network is the industry's only secure, Internet- based private network for retailers and their suppliers to transact, interact and collaborate on promotions and other merchandising and marketing activities. Through software services such as DemandTec's industry-leading Deal Management offering, the network helps retailers lower the cost to serve for their supplier community by applying business workflow and accountability to what was largely a manual, error prone process. Consumer products manufacturers benefit from a reduction in deal handling costs as well as increased opportunities to engage in joint business planning with retail trading partners.
DemandTec's Deal Management is one of a growing number of connected software services that leverage the DemandTec TradePoint Network to enhance the end-to-end promotion management process. The service provides a standardized, collaborative process for how trade plans are entered, submitted, negotiated and archived, resulting in lower transaction costs and increased accuracy.
About DemandTec
DemandTec (Nasdaq: DMAN) enables retailers and consumer products companies to optimize merchandising and marketing decisions, individually or collaboratively, to achieve their sales volume, revenue, and profitability objectives. DemandTec software services utilize DemandTec's science-based software platform to model and understand consumer behavior. DemandTec customers include more than 140 leading retail and consumer products manufacturers such as Advance Auto Parts, Best Buy, Circle K Stores, ConAgra Foods, Delhaize America, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Giant-Carlisle, General Mills, H-E-B Grocery Co., Hormel Foods, Monoprix, Safeway, Sara Lee and Tyson Foods. Connected via the DemandTec TradePoint Network(TM), DemandTec customers have collaborated online on more than one million trade deals. For more information, please visit www.demandtec.com.
DemandTec Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding DemandTec's expectations, hopes, plans, intentions or strategies, including statements about future DemandTec product and solutions plans and the effectiveness of its products and solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include those described in DemandTec's documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to DemandTec as of the date hereof, and DemandTec assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
DemandTec and the DemandTec logo are registered trademarks of DemandTec, Inc. DemandTec TradePoint Network is a trademark of DemandTec, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE DemandTec, Inc.
http://www.demandtec.com
Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
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