Cash Flow

What is Capital Expenditures?

Cash spent on property, plant, equipment and other long-lived assets.

How it is calculated

Purchases of property, plant and equipment from the cash flow statement, shown as a positive amount.

How to read it

Compare with depreciation. Spending well above depreciation means the company is expanding; spending well below can mean under-investment.

Where the numbers come from

Scrutar computes Capital Expenditures from the figures each company reports to the SEC in its annual and quarterly filings, using the XBRL data attached to those filings.

More Cash Flow metrics

Operating Cash FlowCash actually generated by day-to-day operations, before investment in the business.How to read it →Investing Cash FlowCash spent on or received from investments: capital expenditure, acquisitions, and buying or selling securities.How to read it →Financing Cash FlowCash exchanged with lenders and shareholders: debt raised or repaid, shares issued or bought back, dividends paid.How to read it →Free Cash FlowCash left after paying to maintain and expand the business. The money available for dividends, buybacks, debt repayment or acquisitions.How to read it →

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Ten years of Capital Expenditures and every other metric on this page, for every company Scrutar covers, computed from SEC filings.

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