Claim: Veolia had a free cash flow (available cash for the company to repay creditors or pay dividends and interest to investors) of one hundred sixty-eight million in 2003.
Evidence: Financial data in millions of euros Free cash-flow 168 Free cash flow measures the ease with which businesses can grow and pay dividends to shareholders. Even profitable businesses may have negative cash flows. Their requirement for increased financing will result in increased financing cost reducing future income. This may be useful to parties such as equity holders, debt holders, preferred stock holders, and convertible security holders when they want to see how much cash can be extracted from a company without causing issues to its operations.