Come on. Any mortgage can only be paid with future income. The Bank weighs up whether you might lose your job. That is future income.
Now, when a Bank provides acquisition finance, it calculates it's lending on what the combined business should be able to service - projected income (or cash flow lend).
and a Bank would look at asset value and projected asset value. A bank would also look at projected cash flow. A stadium with no anchor team has minimal cash flow to service a debt. A stadium with an anchor tenant has cash flow. But projected cash flow.
so, projected cash flow is something a bank will lend against.
and if you look at the Prospectus, it is the business growth that people are buying in to not the current numbers