# Waters Corporation (WAT) FY2026 Q1 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: Waters Corporation (WAT)
- Period: 2026-01-01 to 2026-04-04
- Filing: Q1 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-05-12, accession number 0001193125-26-219487
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/wat/fy2026-q1-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/wat-fy2026-q1-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2026 through Apr 4, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2025. Ending cash: Apr 4, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2025**: 588,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: negative 3,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Stock-based compensation**: 20,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: negative 1,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation**: 36,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of intangibles**: 171,000,000 US dollars
- **(Increase) decrease in accounts receivable**: negative 533,000,000 US dollars
- **Increase in inventories**: negative 33,000,000 US dollars
- **Increase in other current assets**: negative 98,000,000 US dollars
- **Decrease in other assets**: 174,000,000 US dollars
- **Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and other current liabilities**: 235,000,000 US dollars
- **Increase in deferred revenue and customer advances**: 138,000,000 US dollars
- **(Decrease) increase in other liabilities**: negative 139,000,000 US dollars
- **Net (loss) income**: negative 72,000,000 US dollars
- **Acquisition-related inventory and fixed assets fair value step-ups recognized**: 99,000,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: 95,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Additions to property, plant, equipment and software capitalization**: negative 39,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds Payments Of Equity Investments**: negative 10,000,000 US dollars
- **Cash acquired in business acquisition**: 144,000,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 213,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Proceeds from debt issuances**: 3,530,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments on debt**: negative 3,700,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from stock plans**: 3,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of treasury shares**: negative 12,000,000 US dollars
- **(Payments for) proceeds from derivative contracts**: negative 9,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments of debt issuance costs**: negative 25,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 876,000,000 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**: 3,746,000,000 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**: 144,000,000 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**: negative 5,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Apr 4, 2026**: 462,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 683,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 126,000,000 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**: negative 3,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **cash spent on productive assets**: 39,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: negative 42,000,000 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 −$72.00M + net operating adjustments $69.00M = operating cash −$3.00M. 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 spent on productive assets equals free cash flow: negative 3,000,000 US dollars minus 39,000,000 US dollars equals negative 42,000,000 US dollars.