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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.
Free cash flow is the money generated that is not required to maintain operations. Simply, it is money that the business can use for whatever it wants. It can put it in the bank, give it to charity, pay a dividend, buy back shares or use it for future growth. So when we use the simple version of the FCF formula.