ECOLAB INC. (ECL) FY2026 Q1 Statement of Cash Flows

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Statement of Cash Flows

2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31

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ECOLAB INC. cash flow reconciliation, Jan 1, 2026 through Mar 31, 2026One connected Sankey reconciles operating, investing and financing net cash flows through a shared cash pool, from beginning cash to ending cash. Ribbons flow left to right on one dollar scale. Activity totals are dark gray; beginning and ending cash are blue. Cash basis for beginning and ending balances and net cash change: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Intermediate calculation bars are lighter gray. Net income is green for profit and red for loss. Identified asset purchases, sales and maturities are blue in either cash direction. Purple identifies capital transactions such as borrowing, repayments, share issuance and dividends. Free cash flow is a separate comparison, not an added cash flow. Read chart description and values below for full signed amounts, including zero items.Net income including noncontrolling interest → Net cash from operating activities: $436,600,000.00Depreciation → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $180,500,000.00Amortization → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $82,600,000.00Share-based compensation expense → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $40,300,000.00Deferred income taxes → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $19,400,000.00Accounts payable → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $15,500,000.00Accounts receivable → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $13,500,000.00Other, net → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $10,600,000.00Pension and postretirement plan (income) expense, net → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $9,100,000.00Restructuring charges, net of cash paid → Operating adjustments reconciliation: $3,500,000.00Operating adjustments reconciliation → Net cash from operating activities: $9,300,000.00Operating adjustments reconciliation → Other liabilities: $183,100,000.00Operating adjustments reconciliation → Other assets: $117,200,000.00Operating adjustments reconciliation → Inventories: $47,300,000.00Operating adjustments reconciliation → Pension and postretirement plan contributions: $18,100,000.00Property and other assets sold → investing reconciliation: $200,000.00investing reconciliation → Capital expenditures: $348,500,000.00investing reconciliation → Other, net: $7,200,000.00Net cash used in financing activities → financing reconciliation: $225,800,000.00Net issuances of commercial paper and notes payable → financing reconciliation: $201,600,000.00Exercise of employee stock options → financing reconciliation: $83,500,000.00Long-term debt borrowings → financing reconciliation: $53,000,000.00financing reconciliation → Reacquired shares: $344,400,000.00financing reconciliation → Dividends paid: $215,900,000.00financing reconciliation → Other, net: $3,600,000.00Net cash used in investing activities → investing reconciliation: $355,500,000.00Exchange-rate effect → Cash sources and uses: $9,000,000.00Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations → Cash sources and uses: $646,200,000.00Net cash from operating activities → Cash sources and uses: $445,900,000.00Cash sources and uses → Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations: $519,800,000.00Cash sources and uses → Net cash used in investing activities: $355,500,000.00Cash sources and uses → Net cash used in financing activities: $225,800,000.00Other liabilities: -$183,100,000.00Other operating liabilities−$183.10 MAccounts payable: $15,500,000.00Accounts payable+$15.50 MOther assets: -$117,200,000.00Other operating assets−$117.20 MInventories: -$47,300,000.00Inventories−$47.30 MAccounts receivable: $13,500,000.00Accounts receivable+$13.50 MOther, net: $10,600,000.00Other non-cash items+$10.60 MRestructuring charges, net of cash paid: $3,500,000.00Restructuring charges+$3.50 MPension and postretirement plan contributions: -$18,100,000.00Pension & retiree contributions−$18.10 MShare-based compensation expense: $40,300,000.00Stock-based compensation+$40.30 MDeferred income taxes: $19,400,000.00Deferred taxes & credits+$19.40 MAmortization: $82,600,000.00Amortization expense+$82.60 MDepreciation: $180,500,000.00Depreciation expense+$180.50 MPension and postretirement plan (income) expense, net: $9,100,000.00Pension & postretirement expense+$9.10 MNet income including noncontrolling interest: $436,600,000.00Net income including noncontrolling interest+$436.60 MNet cash from operating activities: $445,900,000.00Operating cash+$445.90 MOperating adjustments reconciliation: $375,000,000.00Other, net: -$3,600,000.00Other financing, net−$3.60 MExercise of employee stock options: $83,500,000.00Stock option exercises+$83.50 MDividends paid: -$215,900,000.00Common dividends paid−$215.90 MReacquired shares: -$344,400,000.00Common stock repurchases−$344.40 MLong-term debt borrowings: $53,000,000.00Long-term debt issued+$53.00 MNet issuances of commercial paper and notes payable: $201,600,000.00Short-term debt, net+$201.60 MNet cash used in financing activities: -$225,800,000.00. Cash required to fund net payments.Financing cash−$225.80 Mfinancing reconciliation: $563,900,000.00Other, net: -$7,200,000.00Other investing, net−$7.20 MProperty and other assets sold: $200,000.00Asset sales+$200.00 KCapital expenditures: -$348,500,000.00PP&E purchases−$348.50 MNet cash used in investing activities: -$355,500,000.00. Cash required to fund net payments.Investing cash−$355.50 Minvesting reconciliation: $355,700,000.00Cash sources and uses: $1,101,100,000.00Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations: $646,200,000.00Beginning cash$646.20 MEnding cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations: $519,800,000.00Ending cash$519.80 MExchange-rate effect: $9,000,000.00FX effect+$9.00 MCASH RECONCILIATIONOperatingflowsInvestingflowsFinancingflowsFree cash flow$97.40 MOperating cash − cash spent on PP&ECash flow / Net income1.02×Operating cash flow ÷ net incomeNet cash change−$126.40 MEnding cash − beginning cash
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ECOLAB INC. cash flow reconciliation, Jan 1, 2026 through Mar 31, 2026

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2026 through Mar 31, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2025. Ending cash: Mar 31, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2025
646,200,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
Operating activities
445,900,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
Other liabilities
negative 183,100,000 US dollars
Accounts payable
15,500,000 US dollars
Other assets
negative 117,200,000 US dollars
Inventories
negative 47,300,000 US dollars
Accounts receivable
13,500,000 US dollars
Other, net
10,600,000 US dollars
Restructuring charges, net of cash paid
3,500,000 US dollars
Pension and postretirement plan contributions
negative 18,100,000 US dollars
Share-based compensation expense
40,300,000 US dollars
Deferred income taxes
19,400,000 US dollars
Amortization
82,600,000 US dollars
Depreciation
180,500,000 US dollars
Pension and postretirement plan (income) expense, net
9,100,000 US dollars
Net income including noncontrolling interest
436,600,000 US dollars
Investing activities
negative 355,500,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
Other, net
negative 7,200,000 US dollars
Property and other assets sold
200,000 US dollars
Capital expenditures
negative 348,500,000 US dollars
Financing activities
negative 225,800,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
Other, net
negative 3,600,000 US dollars
Exercise of employee stock options
83,500,000 US dollars
Dividends paid
negative 215,900,000 US dollars
Reacquired shares
negative 344,400,000 US dollars
Long-term debt borrowings
53,000,000 US dollars
Net issuances of commercial paper and notes payable
201,600,000 US dollars
Operating adjustment reconciliation
375,000,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
financing gross reconciliation
563,900,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
investing gross reconciliation
355,700,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
Exchange-rate effect
9,000,000 US dollars
Ending cash on Mar 31, 2026
519,800,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
Cash sources and uses
1,101,100,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
Net cash change
negative 126,400,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
Cash flow / Net income
1.02×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
Operating cash flow
445,900,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment
348,500,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
Free cash flow
97,400,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

Chart connections

  • Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
  • Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
  • Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
  • Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
  • Net income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $9.30M after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced cash receipts.
  • Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
  • The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
  • Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 445,900,000 US dollars minus 348,500,000 US dollars equals 97,400,000 US dollars.
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