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This value was an improvement when compared to the previous year of operation. During the year 2014, the free cash flow of Alpha Company almost maintained but with a decrease in cash flows from operating activities. The growth percentage of the net sales in the year 2013 for the company was 12.2%, which was much higher as compared to the year 2014 growth of 2.7%. The percentage of sales made reduced by a value of 1%, which indicated that the company free cash flow only increased at a smaller value of 1.2%. The decrease realized indicated that the capital expenditures in the market increased as a given value contrary to the value of all the cash flows that were identified from the operating activities.

For NASDAQ 2013 and 1014 free cash flow of the companies equally behaved in a different manner. A company like WindStream Holdings, Inc. showed an increase in cash flow from operating activities by 2%, which resulted in an increase in actual free cash flow in a similar corresponding value. The capital expenditures from operations and integration activities indicated increased at a minimal figure that would not have subdued the value increase of cash flow from operating activities of the company. The stock exchange was observed to have extra expenditure for stock trading irrespective of the earnings that the companies realized from the selling of the stocks (Hegde & Varshney, 2017).

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