Marketing Manager
Free cash flow is operating cash flow minus CapEx — the cash left after maintaining your assets. How to calculate it, read it, and fix it.
Freemium converts 2–5% of free users to paid; free trials yield 3x more payers per visitor — gate on success, meter free-tier costs, test a reverse trial.
GE Aerospace booked $19B in Q3 orders (+49%) while free cash flow fell 14% — the $212B backlog vs. the cash conversion question.
GM earned $3.3B in Q3 2026 (+151%) on $50B of revenue — then guided a Q4 worth barely half that, and the stock fell 6% despite a $20B buyback.
Hasbro earned $2.90/share adjusted (+73%) in Q3 2026 as Magic hit $616.1M; ~$55M of tariff refunds and a doubled buyback sweetened the print.
Intuitive Surgical Q3 2026: revenue rose 22% to $3.05B and adjusted EPS hit $3.00, but a $450M antitrust settlement cut GAAP net income 26% to $523M.
KeyCorp Q3 2026: $0.51 EPS rose 24% on record $2.04B revenue, NIM of 2.95%, and ROTCE through the 15% target.
Refusing to sign your audit representation letter forces a disclaimer of opinion — learn what AU-C 580 requires you to certify.
Meta's Q3 2026 revenue rose 26% to $64.6B, but a $9.89B state AG settlement cut operating income 37% and free cash flow swung to -$2.1B.
Northrop Grumman earned $7.89 EPS (+3%) on $11.12B sales — a 10% beat — as backlog hit a record $109.6B and guidance rose.
Philip Morris Q3 2026: revenue rose 5.5% to a record $11.4B and adjusted EPS to $2.36, but reported EPS fell 4.9% to $2.12 on a fair-value swing.
Positive Pay matches every check against your issue file and holds mismatches for a same-day pay-or-return decision — add payee matching and cover ACH too.
