{"id":131,"date":"2010-05-20T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-06-01T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T19:59:22","slug":"cost-structure-begins-unnecessary-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/cost-structure-begins-unnecessary-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost Structure Begins Unnecessary Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed a very broad trend on the part of firms which have, over the past three quarters, shown good growth in free cash flow, especially when associated with moderate top line growth, to begin to pick-up their cost structure.<\/p>\n<p>New growth initiatives, share buy-backs, and increases in SG&amp;A, do not bode well for free cash flow later in the year. If this expected growth does not materialize, the stocks of these companies would give back much of the gains seen over the past year and a half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/cost-structure-begins-unnecessary-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p><div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Cost+Structure+Begins+Unnecessary+Rise+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.credittrends.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D131\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Cost+Structure+Begins+Unnecessary+Rise+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.credittrends.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D131\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed a very broad trend on the part of firms which have, over the past three quarters, shown good growth in free cash flow, especially when associated with moderate top line growth, to begin to pick-up their cost structure. New growth initiatives, share buy-backs, and increases in SG&amp;A, do not bode well for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/cost-structure-begins-unnecessary-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}