Free cashflow reporting: Doing it “Grenke style” (Grenke, Silver Chef)
After my post about Australian Leasing companies a few days ago, I decided to start with Silver Chef, a company I found interesting.
Negative Free cash flow at Silver Chef
As many other value investors have, I have incorporated the concept of Free Cash flow into my investment process. A company which produces great earnings but no free cash flow is often a big red flag (see for instance the Globo Plc case)
So a first look at Silver Chef seems to indicate that they have a big problem. Great earnings but negative free cash flows and increasingly so:
