The free-cash-flow dilemma: shareholders raise the bar for MSOs.(On demand: where content meets technology: VOD * HDTV * DVR * ITV * HSI)
Multichannel News, June, 2004 by Stump, Matt
The cable industry is expected to generate $2.4 billion in free cash flow in 2004, according to a report by Fulcrum Global Partners analyst Rich Greenfield. This marks the first time the industry's six major standalone MSOs broke into the black for free cash flow. Those MSOs--Comcast Cable Communications Inc., Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp., Mediacom Communications Corp.
and Insight Communications Co.--had negative free cash flow of $775 million in 2003. And Fulcrum expects the positive free-cash-flow trend to continue in 2005, with an estimated $5 billion in free cash flow from the public six. But to listen to a group of largely sympathetic-to-cable analysts at the recent National Show, that's not...
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