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Crown Castle
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Crown Castle cash flow statement 1997–2026

Crown Castle's free cash flow over the last twelve months was 1.73B USD: operating cash flow of 1.97B USD less 241.00M USD of capital spending. That is 42.2% of its revenue and 3.98 a share.

Operating cash flow Free cash flow

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Fiscal year
TTM
30 Sept 2026
FY2025
31 Dec 2025
FY2024
31 Dec 2024
FY2023
31 Dec 2023
FY2022
31 Dec 2022
FY2021
31 Dec 2021
FY2020
31 Dec 2020
FY2019
31 Dec 2019
FY2018
31 Dec 2018
FY2017
31 Dec 2017
FY2016
31 Dec 2016
Net income
822.00M444.00M-3.90B1.50B1.68B1.16B1.06B860.00M671.00M444.55M356.97M
Depreciation and amortization
693.00M690.00M1.74B1.75B1.71B1.64B1.61B1.57B1.53B1.24B1.11B
Stock-based compensation
82.00M73.00M131.00M157.00M156.00M129.00M138.00M117.00M103.00M91.65M79.34M
Change in working capital
-149.00M-50.00M-200.00M-371.00M-747.00M-346.00M70.00M127.00M57.00M221.80M122.66M
Change in receivables
-11.00M3.00M6.00M115.00M-49.00M-113.00M166.00M-96.00M-105.00M60.86M-58.66M
Change in inventory
—0.000.000.0049.00M113.00M0.000.000.000.000.00
Change in payables
—0.00-22.00M-14.00M-5.00M15.00M-77.00M19.00M37.00M-34.07M10.60M
Change in other working capital
-138.00M-53.00M-184.00M-472.00M-742.00M-361.00M-19.00M204.00M173.00M253.00M112.06M
Other non-cash items
669.00M1.90B5.17B76.00M84.00M136.00M180.00M20.00M142.00M30.30M105.69M
Operating cash flow
1.97B3.06B2.94B3.13B2.88B2.79B3.06B2.70B2.50B2.04B1.78B
Operating cash flow growth
-35.84%+3.87%-5.85%+8.62%+3.19%-8.71%+13.23%+7.83%+22.40%+14.70%-0.80%
Capital expenditure
-241.00M-182.00M-1.22B-1.42B-1.31B-1.23B-1.62B-2.06B-1.74B-1.23B-873.88M
Acquisitions
—0.00-8.00M-96.00M-35.00M-111.00M-107.00M-17.00M-42.00M-9.26B-556.85M
Purchases of investments
—0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00113.15M
Sales and maturities of investments
—0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.003.81M8.14M
Other investing
7.64B-976.00M10.00M1.00M-7.00M8.00M-10.00M-7.00M-12.00M-5.82M12.36M
Investing cash flow
7.40B-1.16B-1.22B-1.52B-1.35B-1.33B-1.74B-2.08B-1.80B-10.49B-1.30B
Debt issued (repaid)
-6.01B217.00M1.07B1.10B1.02B1.18B1.03B1.40B386.00M3.95B-106.14M
Shares issued
—0.000.000.000.000.000.000.00841.00M4.22B1.33B
Share buybacks
—-23.00M-33.00M-30.00M-65.00M-70.00M-76.00M-44.00M-34.00M-23.31M-24.94M
Dividends paid
-1.85B-2.08B-2.73B-2.72B-2.60B-2.37B-2.11B-1.91B-1.78B-1.51B-1.28B
Other financing
—0.00-12.00M0.00-14.00M-42.00M-38.00M-24.00M810.00M5.80B1.32B
Financing cash flow
-9.47B-1.89B-1.71B-1.65B-1.67B-1.31B-1.27B-692.00M-733.00M8.20B-96.29M
Net change in cash
131.00M-21.00M14.00M-46.00M-139.00M85.00M43.00M-75.00M-27.00M-253.51M388.79M
Free cash flow
1.73B2.88B1.72B1.70B1.57B1.56B1.43B641.00M761.00M816.12M908.38M
Free cash flow growth
-35.27%+67.05%+1.12%+8.55%+0.51%+9.01%+123.24%-15.77%-6.75%-10.16%+2.31%
Free cash flow margin
42.23%67.41%26.20%24.38%22.44%24.61%24.50%11.12%14.17%19.18%23.17%
Free cash flow per share
3.986.583.973.923.613.593.371.531.832.132.66
Free cash flow per share growth
-34.90%+65.91%+1.12%+8.55%+0.51%+6.75%+119.57%-16.37%-13.89%-20.08%+0.27%
Interest paid
——895.00M800.00M684.00M661.00M————470.66M
Income taxes paid
—0.0017.00M18.00M10.00M20.00M0.000.000.000.0013.82M

Figures in USD. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; owner earnings take off only the spending that keeps the business as it is, not the spending to grow it (an estimate by Financial Modeling Prep). Quarterly growth is on the same quarter a year before; TTM is the last four quarters.

Figures underlined with dots are from the company's SEC filings, where our data provider's differ.

Common questions about Crown Castle's cash flow

Source: Financial Modeling PrepVerified against SEC filings