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Dot Hill Systems (Dot Hill Systems) Cash Flow from Operations : $12.0 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2015)


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What is Dot Hill Systems Cash Flow from Operations?

Cash flow from operations refers to the cash brought in through a company's normal business operations. It is the cash flow before any investment or financing activities. It is the cash version of net income.

For the three months ended in Jun. 2015, Dot Hill Systems's Net Income From Continuing Operations was $0.7 Mil. Its Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization was $1.2 Mil. Its Change In Working Capital was $-4.2 Mil. Its cash flow from deferred tax was $0.0 Mil. Its Cash from Discontinued Operating Activities was $0.0 Mil. Its Asset Impairment Charge was $0.0 Mil. Its Stock Based Compensation was $1.2 Mil. And its Cash Flow from Others was $2.7 Mil. In all, Dot Hill Systems's Cash Flow from Operations for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $1.6 Mil.


Dot Hill Systems Cash Flow from Operations Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dot Hill Systems's Cash Flow from Operations 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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Dot Hill Systems Cash Flow from Operations Chart

Dot Hill Systems Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Cash Flow from Operations
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -9.10 2.20 -2.45 4.09 6.72

Dot Hill Systems Quarterly Data
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Dot Hill Systems Cash Flow from Operations Calculation

Cash flow from operations refers to the cash brought in through a company's normal business operations. It is the cash flow before any investment or financing activities. It is the cash version of net income.

Dot Hill Systems's Cash Flow from Operations for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as:

Dot Hill Systems's Cash Flow from Operations for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is:


Cash Flow from Operations for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $12.0 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.


Dot Hill Systems  (NAS:HILL) Cash Flow from Operations Explanation

For companies reported in indirect method, cash flow from operations contains six items:

1. Net Income From Continuing Operations:
Net Income From Continuing Operations indicates the net income that a firm brings in from ongoing business activities. These activities are expected to continue into the next reporting period. It excludes extraordinary items, income from the cumulative effects of accounting changes, non-recurring items, income from tax loss carry forward, and preferred dividends.

Dot Hill Systems's net income from continuing operations for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $0.7 Mil.

2. Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization:
Depreciation is a present expense that accounts for the past cost of an asset that is now providing benefits.
Depletion and amortization are synonyms for depreciation.
Generally:
The term depreciation is used when discussing man made tangible assets
The term depletion is used when discussing natural tangible assets
The term amortization is used when discussing intangible assets

Dot Hill Systems's depreciation, depletion and amortization for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $1.2 Mil.

3. Change In Working Capital:
Working Capital is a measure of a company's short term liquidity or its ability to cover short term liabilities. It is defined as the difference between a company's current assets and current liabilities. Changes in Working Capital is reported in the cash flow statement since it is one of the major ways in which net income can differ from operating cash flow.

Dot Hill Systems's change in working capital for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $-4.2 Mil. It means Dot Hill Systems's working capital declined by $4.2 Mil from Mar. 2015 to Jun. 2015 .

4. Deferred Tax:
It is the cash flow generated from deferred tax.

Dot Hill Systems's cash flow from deferred tax for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $0.0 Mil.

5. Cash from Discontinued Operating Activities:
Net cash from all of the entity's discontinued operating activities.

Dot Hill Systems's cash from discontinued operating Activities for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $0.0 Mil.

6. Asset Impairment Charge:
It is the charge against earnings resulting from the aggregate write down of all assets from their carrying value to their fair value.

Dot Hill Systems's asset impairment charge for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $0.0 Mil.

7. Stock Based Compensation:
It is a way corporations use stock options to reward employees. It provides executives and employees the opportunity to share in the growth of the company and, if structured properly, can align their interests with the interests of the company's shareholders and investors, without burning the company's cash on hand.

Dot Hill Systems's stock based compensation for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $1.2 Mil.

8. Cash Flow from Others:
These are cash differences caused by the change of inventory, accounts payable, accounts receivable etc. For instance, if a company pays its suppliers slower, its cash position will build up faster. If a company receives payments from its customers slower, its account receivables will rise, and its cash position will grow more slowly (or even shrink).

Dot Hill Systems's cash flow from others for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $2.7 Mil.


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Dot Hill Systems (Dot Hill Systems) Business Description

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Dot Hill Systems Corp was formed in 1999 by the combination of Box Hill Systems Corp., or Box Hill, and Artecon, Inc., or Artecon. It reincorporated in Delaware in 2001. It designs, manufactures and markets a range of software and hardware storage systems for the entry and mid-range storage markets. The Company sells its products through server-based original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Hewlett-Packard, or HP, Dell Inc. or Dell, Lenovo Group Limited or Lenovo, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD, and Stratus Technologies or Stratus; as well as into vertical markets through embedded solutions OEM's, such as Teradata Corporation or Teradata, CGG Veritas or CGG, Motorola, Inc. or Motorola, Tektronix Inc. or Tektronix, Samsung Electronics or Samsung, Concurrent Computer Corporation or Concurrent, Autodesk Inc. or Autodesk, Harris Broadcast Communications and Nokia Siemens Network or Nokia Siemens, which primarily include media and entertainment, telecommunications, high performance computing, digital image archive, big data and oil and gas. The Company's products, from small capacity direct attached to complete multi-hundred terabyte, or TB, storage area networks, or SANs, provide end-users with a cost-effective means of addressing increasing storage demands at compelling price-performance points. The Company's current product family based on its AssuredSAN architecture provides high performance and large disk array capacities for a broad variety of environments, employing Fibre Channel, Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, or iSCSI and Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS, interconnects to switches and/or hosts. In addition, its Assured family of data protection software products provides additional layers of data protection options to complement its line of storage disk arrays. The Company's current mainstream 2000 and 3000 series of entry-level storage products and Just a Bunch of Disks, or JBOD, arrays are targeted primarily at mainstream enterprise and small-to-medium business, or SMB, applications. The Company's AssuredSAN products have been distinguished by certification as Network Equipment Building System, or NEBS, Level 3 (a telecommunications standard for equipment used in central offices) and are MIL-STD-810F (a military standard created by the U.S.government) compliant based on their ruggedness and reliability. In February 2010, it launched the latest AssuredSAN 3000 series of storage arrays that provide high speed interface options including 8 gigabyte, or GB, Fibre Channel, 1GB and 10GB iSCSI over Ethernet and 6GB SAS connectivity. The Company's AssuredUVS product line, formerly known as the intelligent storage networking system, or iSN TM, is based on the technology it acquired in January 2010 from Cloverleaf Communications, Inc., or Cloverleaf, a privately held software company focused on heterogeneous storage virtualization and unified storage technologies. AssuredSnap is its DMS software that introduces p
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