# Waters Corporation (WAT) FY2026 Q2 Statement of Cash Flows - Company: Waters Corporation (WAT) - Period: 2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04 - Filing: Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-11, accession number 0001193125-26-344691 - Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/wat/fy2026-q2-cash-flow - Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/wat-fy2026-q2-cash-flow-sankey.png ## Chart details Cash flows for Apr 5, 2026 through Jul 4, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Apr 4, 2026. Ending cash: Jul 4, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it. - **Beginning cash on Apr 4, 2026**: 462,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash - **Operating activities**: 201,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided. The remaining amount is calculated by subtracting the other displayed items from the operating total. This quarter is the year to date less the prior quarter's year to date. The prior quarter reported part of this section under different lines (Acquisition-related inventory and fixed assets fair value step-ups recognized), so Amortization of acquisition-related inventory and fixed assets step-up recognized cannot be separated for this quarter. It may combine inflows and outflows. - **Net (loss) income**: negative 136,000,000 US dollars - **Decrease in other liabilities**: 139,000,000 US dollars - **Increase in deferred revenue and customer advances**: negative 22,000,000 US dollars - **Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and other current liabilities**: 322,000,000 US dollars - **Decrease in other assets**: negative 157,000,000 US dollars - **Increase in other current assets**: negative 256,000,000 US dollars - **Increase in inventories**: negative 35,000,000 US dollars - **(Increase) decrease in accounts receivable**: negative 249,000,000 US dollars - **Amortization of intangibles**: 266,000,000 US dollars - **Depreciation**: 35,000,000 US dollars - **Deferred income taxes**: 115,000,000 US dollars - **Stock-based compensation**: 25,000,000 US dollars - **Remaining operating cash flows, net (calculated)**: 154,000,000 US dollars - **Investing activities**: 2,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided. The remaining amount is calculated by subtracting the other displayed items from the investing total. The filing's tagged investing lines do not add up to the investing total; this is the difference. This quarter is the year to date less the prior quarter's year to date. The prior quarter reported part of this section under different lines (Cash acquired in business acquisition), so Cash acquired in business acquisition and Change in deposit asset, related to deferred close entities cannot be separated for this quarter. It may combine inflows and outflows. - **Additions to property, plant, equipment and software capitalization**: negative 48,000,000 US dollars - **Investments in unaffiliated companies, net**: 0 US dollars - **Remaining investing cash flows, net (calculated)**: 50,000,000 US dollars - **Financing activities**: negative 124,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used. - **Payments of debt issuance costs**: negative 3,000,000 US dollars - **(Payments for) proceeds from derivative contracts**: negative 3,000,000 US dollars - **Purchases of treasury shares**: negative 2,000,000 US dollars - **Proceeds from stock plans**: 12,000,000 US dollars - **Payments on debt**: negative 340,000,000 US dollars - **Proceeds from debt issuances**: 212,000,000 US dollars - **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 1,056,000,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the displayed items and the calculated net remainder. It does not establish gross cash receipts or payments and is not an additional cash flow. - **financing gross reconciliation**: 348,000,000 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 displayed reconciliation**: 50,000,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the displayed items and the calculated net remainder. It does not establish gross cash receipts or payments and is not an additional cash flow. - **Exchange-rate effect**: negative 2,000,000 US dollars - **Ending cash on Jul 4, 2026**: 539,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash - **Cash sources and uses**: 665,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash. - **Net cash change**: 77,000,000 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**: 201,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation. - **cash spent on productive assets**: 48,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above. - **Free cash flow**: 153,000,000 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 −$136.00M + net operating adjustments $337.00M = operating cash +$201.00M. 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: 201,000,000 US dollars minus 48,000,000 US dollars equals 153,000,000 US dollars.