MercadoLibre, Inc. (MELI) FY2026 Q1 Statement of Cash Flows
2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31
Statement of Cash Flows
2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31
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MercadoLibre, 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. 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
- 13,537,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- Operating activities
- 2,075,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- Net income
- 417,000,000 US dollars
- Unrealized foreign currency gains, net
- negative 66,000,000 US dollars
- Depreciation and amortization
- 246,000,000 US dollars
- Accrued interest, financial income and other revenues
- negative 283,000,000 US dollars
- Non cash interest expense and amortization of debt issuance costs and other charges
- 100,000,000 US dollars
- Provision for doubtful accounts
- 1,244,000,000 US dollars
- Provision for contingencies
- 39,000,000 US dollars
- Results on derivative instruments
- 95,000,000 US dollars
- Results on digital assets at fair value
- 0 US dollars
- Long term retention program (“LTRP”) accrued compensation
- 96,000,000 US dollars
- Deferred income taxes
- negative 261,000,000 US dollars
- Receivables
- negative 887,000,000 US dollars
- Inventories
- negative 88,000,000 US dollars
- Other assets
- negative 98,000,000 US dollars
- Payables and accrued expenses
- 340,000,000 US dollars
- Funds payable to customers
- 585,000,000 US dollars
- Amounts payable due to credit and debit card transactions
- 523,000,000 US dollars
- Other liabilities
- 123,000,000 US dollars
- Operating lease liabilities
- negative 118,000,000 US dollars
- Interest received from investments
- 68,000,000 US dollars
- Investing activities
- negative 1,471,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- Purchases of investments
- negative 2,824,000,000 US dollars
- Proceeds from sale and maturity of investments
- 3,613,000,000 US dollars
- Proceeds from settlements of derivative instruments
- 4,000,000 US dollars
- Payments from settlements of derivative instruments
- negative 44,000,000 US dollars
- Changes in loans receivable, net
- negative 1,949,000,000 US dollars
- Investments in property and equipment, intangible assets and intangible assets at fair value
- negative 271,000,000 US dollars
- Financing activities
- 473,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- Proceeds from loans payable and other financial liabilities
- 21,524,000,000 US dollars
- Payments on loans payable and other financing liabilities
- negative 21,035,000,000 US dollars
- Payments of finance lease liabilities
- negative 16,000,000 US dollars
- Operating adjustment reconciliation
- 3,459,000,000 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
- 21,524,000,000 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
- 5,088,000,000 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
- 527,000,000 US dollars
- Ending cash on Mar 31, 2026
- 15,141,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- Cash sources and uses
- 16,612,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- Net cash change
- 1,604,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- Cash flow / Net income
- 4.98×. 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
- 2,075,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- cash spent on productive assets
- 271,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- Free cash flow
- 1,804,000,000 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 income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $1.66B 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 spent on productive assets equals free cash flow: 2,075,000,000 US dollars minus 271,000,000 US dollars equals 1,804,000,000 US dollars.
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