Income Stream

Income Stream – Income stream is the change over time in the amount of cash created and/or held by a company.  The most common usage of this phrase comes from investment profits when an individual can visualize or determine how much cash is coming in from the products that they invested in over a regular interval of time.  The quickest way to gain a sense of a company’s income stream is to examine the bottom line on their cash flow statement to make sure that it is positive and hence that the company is profitable.