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Actions Semiconductor Co (Actions Semiconductor Co) Cash Flow from Investing : $13.27 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2016)


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What is Actions Semiconductor Co Cash Flow from Investing?

Cash Flow from Investing covers the cash a company gains or spends from investment activities in financial market and operating subsidiaries. It also includes the cash the company used for property, plant and equipment (PPE).

For the three months ended in Jun. 2016, Actions Semiconductor Co spent $0.06 Mil on purchasing property, plant, equipment. It gained $0.04 Mil from selling property, plant, and equipment. It spent $0.00 Mil on purchasing business. It gained $0.00 Mil from selling business. It spent $5.33 Mil on purchasing investments. It gained $6.77 Mil from selling investments. It paid $0.11Mil for net Intangibles purchase and sale. And it received $1.20 Mil from other investing activities. In all, Actions Semiconductor Co gained $2.52 Mil on investment activities in financial market and operating subsidiaries for the three months ended in Jun. 2016.


Actions Semiconductor Co Cash Flow from Investing Historical Data

The historical data trend for Actions Semiconductor Co's Cash Flow from Investing can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Actions Semiconductor Co Cash Flow from Investing Chart

Actions Semiconductor Co Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Cash Flow from Investing
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Actions Semiconductor Co Quarterly Data
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Actions Semiconductor Co Cash Flow from Investing Calculation

Cash Flow from Investing covers the cash a company gains or spends from investment activities in financial market and operating subsidiaries. It also includes the cash the company used for property, plant and equipment (PPE).

If a company spends cash on property, plant and equipment (PPE), this will reduce their cash position. This is called Capital Expenditures (CPEX).

Likewise, if a company buys another company for cash, this will reduce their cash position.

Actions Semiconductor Co's Cash Flow from Investing for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as:

Actions Semiconductor Co's Cash Flow from Investing for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as:


Cash Flow from Investing for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $13.27 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Actions Semiconductor Co  (NAS:ACTS) Cash Flow from Investing Explanation

Cash flow from investing contains nine items:

1. Purchase Of Property, Plant, Equipment:
Purchase of PPE indicates the amount used to purchase property, plant, and equipment.

Actions Semiconductor Co's purchase of property, plant, equipment for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-0.06 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co spent $0.06 Mil on purchasing property, plant, equipment.

In the capital spending for property, plant and equipment (PPE), some part of spending may be from the expansion of business. The business needs more property, plant and equipment (PPE) as it grows. Another part may be from replacement of the property, plant and equipment (PPE) of existing business. For some companies, the cash spent on replacing of the property, plant and equipment (PPE) of the existing business will be close to the depreciation of property, plant and equipment (PPE) reported in the income statement.

In Warren Buffett's definition of Owner's Earnings, he deducts the estimate of the cost of replacing the property, plant and equipment (PPE) of the existing business from cash flow from operations. The cash spent on the new property, plant, and equipment is not deducted. The reason is because these are not costs of the existing business. In his 1986 letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett wrote this about owner earnings:

"These represent (a) reported earnings plus (b) depreciation, depletion, amortization, and certain other non-cash charges...less (c) the average annual amount of capitalized expenditures for plant and equipment, etc. that the business requires to fully maintain its long-term competitive position and its unit volume....Our owner-earnings equation does not yield the deceptively precise figures provided by GAAP, since (c) must be a guess - and one sometimes very difficult to make. Despite this problem, we consider the owner earnings figure, not the GAAP figure, to be the relevant item for valuation purposes...All of this points up the absurdity of the 'cash flow' numbers that are often set forth in Wall Street reports. These numbers routinely include (a) plus (b) - but do not subtract (c)."

2. Sale Of Property, Plant, Equipment:
Sale of PPE indicates the amount gained from selling property, plant, and equipment.

Actions Semiconductor Co's sale of property, plant, equipment for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $0.04 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co gained $0.04 Mil from selling property, plant, and equipment.

3.Purchase Of Business:
Purchase of business indicates the amount used to purchase business.

Actions Semiconductor Co's purchase of business for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $0.00 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co spent $0.00 Mil on purchasing business.

4. Sale Of Business:
Sale of business indicates the amount gained from selling business.

Actions Semiconductor Co's sale of business for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $0.00 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co gained $0.00 Mil from selling business.

5. Purchase Of Investment:
Purchase of Investments represents cash outflow on the purchase of investments in securities.

Actions Semiconductor Co's purchase of investment for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-5.33 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co spent {stock_data.stock.currency_symbol}}5.33 Mil on purchasing investments.

6. Sale Of Investment:
Sale of Investments represents cash inflow on the sale of investments in securities.

Actions Semiconductor Co's sale of investment for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $6.77 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co gained $6.77 Mil from selling investments.

7. Net Intangibles Purchase And Sale:
Net Intangibles purchase and sale means the net cash inflow received by a company that comes from the purchase and sale of intangibles. It equals the cash received from sale of intangibles minus the cash spent on purchasing intangibles.

Actions Semiconductor Co's net Intangibles purchase and sale for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-0.11 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co paid $0.11 Mil for net Intangibles purchase and sale.

8. Cash From Discontinued Investing Activities:
Cash from discontinued investing activities means the cash received by a company that comes from the discontinued investing activities.

Actions Semiconductor Co's cash from discontinued investing activities for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.00 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co paid $0.00 Mil for discontinued investing activities.

9. Cash From Other Investing Activities:
Cash from other investing activities means the cash received by a company that comes from other investing activities.

Actions Semiconductor Co's cash from other investing activities for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $1.20 Mil. It means Actions Semiconductor Co received $1.20 Mil from other investing activities.


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Actions Semiconductor Co (Actions Semiconductor Co) Business Description

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Actions Semiconductor Co Ltd an exempted company incorporated under the Companies Law (2013 Revision), as amended, of the Cayman Islands on July 27, 2005. The Company is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets integrated platform solutions, including SoCs, firmware, software development tools and reference designs, for manufacturers of portable media players and smart handheld devices such as tablets. It provides integrated platform solutions to tablet and portable media player manufacturers, brand owners and value-added distributors that enable them to accelerate the time-to-market for their products. Its integrated platform solutions, which comprise SoCs, firmware, software development tools and reference designs, obviate the need for its customers to invest in costly and time-consuming internal firmware and software development for their products, or to source them from multiple suppliers. The Company's network of third-party value-added distributors and applications developers enable its customers to quickly introduce products with differentiated features and to cost-effectively customize its solutions. Its mixed-signal design capabilities allows it to integrate analog and digital components using a compact system architecture in its portable media player SoCs, and enable its customers to reduce their overall costs and produce smaller, more power-efficient portable products. The Company's proximity to the China-based manufacturers of tablets and portable media players and presence in the rapidly evolving China market for tablets and portable media players enables the Company to identify market trends and align its product development efforts with these market trends. The Company's research and development efforts during 2011, 2012 and 2013 focused principally on: (i) the development of tablets solutions and applications including ATM7029, ATM7021 and ATM7039, (ii) the improvement of traditional portable media player and boombox solutions including ATJ331X/AK211X/ATJ212X series, ATJ225X/ATJ227X series and ATS25XX/ATS26XX series. The Company faces competition from SoC platform providers such as ALi, AllWinner, Amlogic, Anyka, BestRely, Buildwin, Freescale, General Plus, Infotmic, Ingenic, Intel, JieLI, MVSilicon, Rockchips, Vmicro and WonderMedia. As it diversifies and expands its product categories, it may also face competition from other semiconductor companies and manufacturers of consumer electronics and mobile devices.
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Paul Hsiao director 1119 ST PAUL STREET BALTIMORE MD 21202

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