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Breakeven
(redirected from Break even point)

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breakeven
1. The level of output or sales necessary to cover fixed expenses. Companies in industries that have high fixed costs and, consequently, high breakevens, such as automobile and steel manufacturing, are likely to exhibit large fluctuations in earnings.
2. The price at which a security position can be closed out with no profit or loss.

Breakeven
1. The sales or revenues necessary to cover costs and prevent a firm from operating at a loss. The breakeven may be relatively stable or it may fluctuate, depending on the company or industry. Companies with high breakevens tend to have large fluctuations in earnings from year to year.

2. The price of a security, if one sells at it, that will result in neither a profit nor a loss on the sale.


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This illustrates that the company is in a position to continue to self-finance its strong growth and aim for operating cash flow that is close to the break even point or even positive during fiscal 2007.
This is bringing us very close to the break even point and into profitability, which is the primary objective for the organization.
Operating cash break even point in terms of pounds of copper for the three months ended March 31, 2002, was 53.
 
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