# MSCI INC. (MSCI) FY2026 Q1 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: MSCI INC. (MSCI)
- Period: 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31
- Filing: Q1 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-04-21, accession number 0001408198-26-000034
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/msci/fy2026-q1-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/msci-fy2026-q1-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

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**: 515,300,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: 306,800,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Net income**: 406,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of intangible assets**: 41,900,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based compensation expense**: 47,700,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization of property, equipment and leasehold improvements**: 5,900,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of debt origination fees**: 1,800,000 US dollars
- **Deferred taxes**: negative 82,500,000 US dollars
- **Other adjustments**: negative 5,200,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable**: 102,100,000 US dollars
- **Prepaid income taxes**: 25,500,000 US dollars
- **Prepaid and other assets**: negative 9,300,000 US dollars
- **Other non-current assets**: negative 1,300,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable**: negative 6,200,000 US dollars
- **Accrued compensation and related benefits**: negative 146,600,000 US dollars
- **Income taxes payable**: negative 17,800,000 US dollars
- **Other accrued liabilities**: negative 15,200,000 US dollars
- **Deferred revenue**: negative 46,200,000 US dollars
- **Long-term operating lease liabilities**: negative 6,000,000 US dollars
- **Other non-current liabilities**: 4,900,000 US dollars
- **Other**: 500,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of right of use assets**: 6,800,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 70,500,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired**: negative 41,700,000 US dollars
- **Capital expenditures**: negative 2,800,000 US dollars
- **Capitalized software development costs**: negative 26,000,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 364,500,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Proceeds from borrowings**: 375,000,000 US dollars
- **Repayment of borrowings**: negative 175,000,000 US dollars
- **Repurchase of common stock held in treasury**: negative 414,800,000 US dollars
- **Payment of dividends**: negative 150,500,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from exercise of stock options**: 1,300,000 US dollars
- **Payment of contingent consideration and deferred purchase price from acquisitions**: negative 500,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 336,300,000 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**: 740,800,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 70,500,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: negative 1,800,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Mar 31, 2026**: 385,300,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 822,100,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 130,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 0.76×. 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**: 306,800,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 2,800,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 304,000,000 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 exceeds operating cash. The diagram allocates $306.80M of net income directly to operating cash and $99.20M to the adjustment junction, where it combines with other additions to reconcile deductions. This is an accounting presentation, not a tracing of 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: 306,800,000 US dollars minus 2,800,000 US dollars equals 304,000,000 US dollars.