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The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Jim Gillies	A Health-Care Stock to Avoid Investors, before you leap in, keep in mind that not all health-care businesses are potential gold mines. Enter PolyMedica.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	PolyMedica Retrenches Embattled direct-to-consumer medical products provider looks to rebound from setbacks. Valuation now appears a bit rich for a company that won't really be growing much for the next year or two.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Rich Duprey	Medco's Potentially Perilous Purchase Is pharmacy-benefits manager Medco Health Solutions risking its own health by buying diabetes-testing supplier PolyMedica? The deal may end up being so expensive as to drain Medco's own performance.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Brian Lawler	PolyMedica Produces ... Sort Of It's hard to get excited over this health-care products supplier when its options expenses are nearly half its earnings, margins are declining across the board, and it will now face massive dilution in several years via those aforementioned converts.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	PolyMedica's Second Act PolyMedica has a cash-rich legacy business, but growth will require new strategies. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2006 Shruti Basavaraj	Free Sailing With Free Cash Flow What do you look at when you're trying to value a company? It's best to side-step income statement accounting traps and manipulations and go straight to the cash -- free cash flow.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2004 Nathan Parmelee	Avoid Analysis Shortcuts Prominent investors have spoken out against the use of EBITDA. Yet, it lives on. We enjoy and suffer from an abundance of investment data. There is one figure we could easily do without: EBITDA.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2010 Seth Jayson	Here's How Check Point Software Technologies Is Making You So Much Cash With questionable cash flows amounting to only 5.5% of operating cash flow, Check Point Software Technologies' cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Seth Jayson	Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Enterprise Products Partners' Earnings With questionable cash flows amounting to only 2.5% of operating cash flow, Enterprise Products Partners' cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are United Parcel Service's Earnings Better than they Look? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 7.3% of operating cash flow, UPS' cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at United Technologies United Technologies' issue isn't questionable cash flow boosts, but items in that suspect group that reduced cash flow. Within the questionable cash flow figure.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2010 Seth Jayson	Show Me the Money, Merck Merck turned 7% of its revenues into free cash flow. That looks pretty good, but as the chart shows, it's a lot less than in years past.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2010 Seth Jayson	Has Forward Air Made You Any Real Money? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 9.2% of operating cash flow, Forward Air's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at Exelon With questionable cash flows amounting to only 9.6% of operating cash flow, Exelon's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2011 Seth Jayson	Here's How athenahealth Is Making You So Much Cash athenahealth's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at CenturyLink Let's compare CenturyLink's free cash flow to sector and industry peers and competitors, to see how they stack up.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Linn Energy's Earnings Linn Energy's issue isn't questionable cash flow boosts, but items in that suspect group that reduced cash flow.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at Pacer International Let's see how Pacer International's free cash flow compares to that of sector and industry peers and competitors.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Seth Jayson	Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Oshkosh's Earnings With questionable cash flows amounting to only (0.6%) of operating cash flow, Oshkosh's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are the Earnings at PepsiCo Hiding Something? With questionable cash flows amounting to only -9.9% of operating cash flow, PepsiCo's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at ConocoPhillips Let's compare ConocoPhillips free cash flow to sector and industry peers and competitors to see how it stacks up.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at ExxonMobil With questionable cash flows amounting to only -1.1% of operating cash flow, ExxonMobil's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Where's the Cash Coming From at Lorillard? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 0.3% of operating cash flow, Lorillard's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2010 Seth Jayson	Digging Into the Cash Flow at Cree All cash flow is not created equal. With questionable cash flows amounting to only 2.3% of operating cash flow, Cree's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why the Street Should Love McAfee's Earnings Over the past 12 months, the security software company generated $505.5 million cash on net income of $178.1 million.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why American Public Education's Earnings Are Outstanding Over the past 12 months, American Public Education generated $29.8 million cash on net income of $28.6 million. That means it turned 16.1% of its revenue into free cash flow.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why Spectra Energy's Earnings Aren't So Hot Over the past 12 months, Spectra Energy turned 7.2% of its revenue into free cash flow.
The Motley Fool November 19, 2010 Seth Jayson	Where's the Cash Coming From at Clorox? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 3.9% of operating cash flow, Clorox's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Has SXC Health Solutions Made You Any Real Money? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 1.2% of operating cash flow, SXC Health Solutions' cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why Wall Street Should Love Teleflex's Earnings Teleflex's issue isn't questionable cash flow boosts, but rather items in that suspect group that actually reduced cash flow.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2011 Seth Jayson	Here's How Steris Is Making You So Much Cash Steris's issue isn't questionable cash flow boosts, but items in that suspect group that reduced cash flow.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are SanDisk's Earnings Worse Than They Look? With questionable cash flows amounting to only -3.6% of operating cash flow, SanDisk's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why Ebix's Earnings Aren't So Hot Ebix's issue isn't questionable cash flow boosts, but items in that suspect group that reduced cash flow.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2010 Seth Jayson	Where's the Cash Coming From at Home Depot? Over the past 12 months Home Depot turned 6.2% of its revenue into FCF. That sounds OK, but let's compare that figure to sector and industry peers and competitors.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are Starbucks' Earnings Worse Than They Look? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 5.1% of operating cash flow, Starbucks' cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why Gap's Earnings Aren't So Hot Over the past 12 months, Gap generated $1,186 million cash on net income of $1,191 million. That means it turned 8.2% of its revenue into FCF. That sounds OK.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2011 Seth Jayson	Here's How SuperGen Is Making You So Much Cash With questionable cash flows amounting to only 8.3% of operating cash flow, SuperGen's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why ADTRAN's Earnings Aren't So Hot With questionable cash flows amounting to only 2.9% of operating cash flow, ADTRAN's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 3, 2010 Seth Jayson	Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Penn West Energy Trust's Earnings Penn West Energy Trust's issue isn't questionable cash flow boosts, but items in that suspect group that reduced cash flow.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are the Earnings at American Electric Power Hiding Something? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 1.2% of operating cash flow, American Electric Power's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2011 Seth Jayson	Why Wall Street Should Love Superior Energy's Earnings Over the past 12 months, Superior Energy Services generated $152.4 million cash on a net loss of $35.8 million. That means it turned 10.2% of its revenue into free cash flow.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why Old Dominion Freight Line's Earnings Aren't So Hot The biggest drag on Old Dominion's free cash flow came from capital expenditures, which consumed 66.9% of cash from operations.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are the Earnings at Baker Hughes Incorporated Hiding Something? Over the past 12 months, Baker Hughes Incorporated burned $162 million cash on net income of $361 million.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Oil States International's Earnings Over the past 12 months, Oil States International turned 3.9% of its revenue into free cash flow.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why the Street Should Love ABB's Earnings With questionable cash flows amounting to only 7.2% of operating cash flow, ABB's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Seth Jayson	Here's How MicroStrategy Is Making You So Much Cash With questionable cash flows amounting to only 3.9% of operating cash flow, MicroStrategy's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2010 Seth Jayson	Where's the Cash Coming From at Intel? With questionable cash flows amounting to only 4.3% of operating cash flow, Intel's cash flows look clean
The Motley Fool January 4, 2011 Seth Jayson	Here's How Smith & Nephew Is Making You So Much Cash With questionable cash flows amounting to only 8.1% of operating cash flow, Smith & Nephew's cash flows look clean.
The Motley Fool November 1, 2010 Seth Jayson	Are ConocoPhillips's Earnings Better Than They Look? So how does the cash flow at ConocoPhillips look?
The Motley Fool December 7, 2010 Seth Jayson	Why the Street Should Love Pengrowth Energy Trust's Earnings Pengrowth Energy Trust turned an impressive 28.8% of its revenue into free cash flow.