# ECOLAB INC. (ECL) FY2026 Q2 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: ECOLAB INC. (ECL)
- Period: 2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30
- Filing: Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-06, accession number 0001628280-26-053886
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/ecl/fy2026-q2-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/ecl-fy2026-q2-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Apr 1, 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Beginning cash: Mar 31, 2026. Ending cash: Jun 30, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Mar 31, 2026**: 519,800,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Operating activities**: 729,500,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Other liabilities**: 120,500,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable**: 130,800,000 US dollars
- **Other assets**: negative 91,400,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: negative 84,100,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable**: negative 210,500,000 US dollars
- **Sale of global surgical solutions business**: 0 US dollars
- **Other, net**: 17,500,000 US dollars
- **Restructuring charges, net of cash paid**: negative 6,300,000 US dollars
- **Pension and postretirement plan contributions**: negative 14,700,000 US dollars
- **Share-based compensation expense**: 34,800,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: 15,500,000 US dollars
- **Amortization**: 85,100,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation**: 183,800,000 US dollars
- **Pension and postretirement plan (income) expense, net**: 9,800,000 US dollars
- **Net income including noncontrolling interest**: 538,700,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 274,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Other, net**: negative 8,700,000 US dollars
- **Acquisitions and investments in affiliates, net of cash acquired**: negative 27,000,000 US dollars
- **Divestiture of businesses, net of cash divested**: 0 US dollars
- **Property and other assets sold**: 1,800,000 US dollars
- **Capital expenditures**: negative 240,100,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: 4,154,400,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Other, net**: negative 3,000,000 US dollars
- **Exercise of employee stock options**: 11,300,000 US dollars
- **Dividends paid**: negative 208,200,000 US dollars
- **Reacquired shares**: negative 324,900,000 US dollars
- **Long-term debt borrowings**: 5,028,200,000 US dollars
- **Net repayments of commercial paper and notes payable**: negative 299,800,000 US dollars
- **Deferred financing costs**: negative 49,200,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 597,800,000 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**: 5,039,500,000 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**: 275,800,000 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**: 5,600,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Jun 30, 2026**: 5,135,300,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Cash sources and uses**: 5,409,300,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: 4,615,500,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 1.35×. 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**: 729,500,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 240,100,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 489,400,000 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 $190.80M 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: 729,500,000 US dollars minus 240,100,000 US dollars equals 489,400,000 US dollars.