# Estée Lauder Companies Inc (EL) FY2025 Annual Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: Estée Lauder Companies Inc (EL)
- Period: 2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30
- Filing: FY2025 10-K, filed 2025-08-20, accession number 0001001250-25-000099
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/el/fy2025-annual-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/el-fy2025-annual-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jul 1, 2024 through Jun 30, 2025. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Jun 30, 2024. Ending cash: Jun 30, 2025. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Jun 30, 2024**: 3,395,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: 1,272,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Other adjustments and non-cash items**: 10,000,000 US dollars
- **Decrease (increase) in inventory and promotional merchandise**: 184,000,000 US dollars
- **Non-cash restructuring and other charges**: 20,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization**: 829,000,000 US dollars
- **Impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets**: 1,286,000,000 US dollars
- **Increase (decrease) in accounts payable**: 21,000,000 US dollars
- **Pension and post-retirement benefit contributions**: negative 92,000,000 US dollars
- **Net (loss) earnings**: negative 1,133,000,000 US dollars
- **Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment**: 19,000,000 US dollars
- **(Decrease) increase in other accrued and noncurrent liabilities**: negative 41,000,000 US dollars
- **Decrease in operating lease assets and liabilities, net**: negative 34,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: negative 396,000,000 US dollars
- **Non-cash stock-based compensation**: 304,000,000 US dollars
- **Pension and post-retirement benefit expense**: 76,000,000 US dollars
- **(Increase) decrease in other assets, net**: negative 11,000,000 US dollars
- **Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable, net**: 230,000,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 623,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Purchases of investments**: negative 1,000,000 US dollars
- **Capital expenditures**: negative 602,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment**: 3,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of other intangible assets**: 0 US dollars
- **Settlement of net investment hedges**: negative 23,000,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 1,144,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Debt issuance costs**: 0 US dollars
- **(Repayments) proceeds of current debt, net**: 0 US dollars
- **Repayments of long-term debt**: negative 505,000,000 US dollars
- **Payment for acquisition of noncontrolling interest**: negative 21,000,000 US dollars
- **Payment for acquisition of redeemable noncontrolling interest**: 0 US dollars
- **Repayments of commercial paper (maturities after three months)**: 0 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuance of commercial paper (maturities after three months)**: 0 US dollars
- **Net proceeds from stock-based compensation transactions**: 15,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, net**: 0 US dollars
- **Dividends paid to stockholders**: negative 618,000,000 US dollars
- **Settlement of cross-currency swaps**: 20,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments to acquire treasury stock**: negative 35,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 2,979,000,000 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**: 1,179,000,000 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**: 626,000,000 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**: 21,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Jun 30, 2025**: 2,921,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 4,688,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 474,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: Not meaningful. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. The ratio is not meaningful when net income is zero or negative.
- **Operating cash flow**: 1,272,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 602,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 670,000,000 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 loss −$1.13B + net operating adjustments $2.41B = operating cash +$1.27B. The loss reduces the earnings basis of the reconciliation; it is not a cash payment. The signed loss remains a deduction at the operating reconciliation junction.
- 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: 1,272,000,000 US dollars minus 602,000,000 US dollars equals 670,000,000 US dollars.