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What is 'Free Cash Flow - FCF' Free cash flow (FCF) is a measure of a company's financial performance, calculated as operating cash flow minus capital expenditures. FCF represents the cash that a company is able to generate after spending the money required to maintain or expand its asset base.
Younger companies typically produce little in the way of free cash flow, because the cash they generate from operations is put back into the business. (As an example, refer to Wal-Mart's statements of cash flows from 1998 to 2000 and compare them the statements from 2013 to 2015.