Cash-cow stocks are a unique bunch and a stock segment that many retail investors overlook. In a nutshell, cash-cow stocks have two key traits. First, cash-cow stocks (as the name implies) have high, predictable, reliable and recurring free cash flow per share. In these cases, free cash flow per share is preferable to earnings per share as it is a more reliable metric of cash available to deploy rapidly since it excludes non-cash concerns like depreciation. The more reliable and consistent the free cash flo ...