There are two main definitions for this one. Think of them as the good twin and the evil twin.
First, the good twin: capital recovery happens when you make back your initial investment. From now on, anything you bring in is gravy (meaning profit).
So, you invest $10,000 in your brother-in-law's dog washing business. He promises to pay you dividends every quarter out of his profits. After three years, your dividends have totaled $10,000...your next dividend payment will put you in the black for the investment. You've reached the point of capital recovery. You've recovered your original capital.
Now, to the evil twin: capital recovery represents a nice-sounding way to refer to debt collectors. If you keep getting a call from the nice lady from North Star Capital Recovery, you may want to block the number. Or pay back that credit card you stiffed three years ago. Whichever strategy seems best to you.
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Finance a la shmoop what does capital-intensive mean? lots and lots and
lots and lots of capital yeah that's what it means starting a website, two [Two young kids setting up a website in a garage]
kids a garage and a nice home computer not capital intensive, drilling for oil
in the North Sea highly capital intensive...
well capital needed for the two kids in a garage building a search engine about
two million bucks capital needed for the oil rig well like ten billion bucks and
why does the capital intensity matter well if you can create Google that
generates a few billion dollars of free cash flow a quarter for a total capital
input of maybe a hundred million dollars ie a few rounds after the garage round [Equity investment agreement documents appear]
then investors in it make an absolute killing like if you don't dilute
yourselves and the stock goes up a lot life's good yeah hundreds or thousands
of times their original investment if you create BP British Petroleum or Royal
Dutch Shell or Chevron which also have a few billion dollars of free cash flow a [Cash flowing into fuel tanks]
quarter but it takes you ten billion dollars in capital to generate those
returns then yes you get a nice investment return but it's nothing that
you know Vikings sing songs about and it's the allure of the capital [Man typing on laptop]
unintensive businesses like building a website in Yahoo or a search engine in Google or a video streaming
site in Netflix that takes relatively small amounts of capital to start and
then produces mounds of free cash profits that has made venture
capitalists fall all over themselves hoping to find that one little garage [Person looking through binoculars at garages]
with the next great white whale yeah that's intensive...
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