Does Credit Suisse Generate Enough Cash Flows?

By Scott Lee • Friday, December 09 11:58 • Permanent Link

Large-cap Diversified Banking company Credit Suisse was up 6.5% during today's morning session. It clearly has investors' attention, and the business is profitable with average operating margins of 19.0%.

Date Reported	Total Revenue ($)	Operating Expenses ($)	Operating Margins (%)	YoY Growth (%)
2021-12-31	18,308,000,000.0	16,123,000,000.0	11.93	-45.17
2020-12-31	21,000,000,000.0	16,430,000,000.0	21.76	-1.63
2019-12-31	21,584,000,000.0	16,809,000,000.0	22.12	9.18
2018-12-31	20,608,000,000.0	16,432,000,000.0	20.26	n/a

But is the company cash positive? Here's a breakdown of Credit Suisse's free cash flow, which consists in the net cash flow from operations, minus its capital expenditures (i.e. investment in the business):

Date Reported	Cash Flow from Operations ($)	Capital expenditures ($)	Free Cash Flow ($)	YoY Growth (%)
2021-12-31	36,938,000,000.0	-1,419,000,000.0	35,519,000,000.0	592.02
2020-12-31	-6,031,000,000.0	-1,188,000,000.0	-7,219,000,000.0	61.25
2019-12-31	-17,338,000,000.0	-1,293,000,000.0	-18,631,000,000.0	-258.05
2018-12-31	12,883,000,000.0	-1,095,000,000.0	11,788,000,000.0	n/a

Credit Suisse's cash flows may on average be positive but their variability of 441.8% may be a yellow flag for more conservative investors.

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