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Rio Tinto
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Rio Tinto cash flow statement 1991–2026

Rio Tinto's free cash flow over the last twelve months was 5.76B USD: operating cash flow of 19.22B USD less 13.46B USD of capital spending. That is 9.3% of its revenue and 3.52 a share.

Operating cash flow Free cash flow

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Fiscal year
TTM
30 Jun 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
12.08B9.99B11.55B9.95B13.08B22.58B10.40B6.97B13.93B8.85B4.78B
Depreciation and amortization
8.05B6.58B5.92B5.33B5.01B4.70B4.28B4.38B4.02B4.38B4.79B
Stock-based compensation
—0.000.000.00122.00M126.00M138.00M123.00M122.00M98.00M125.00M
Change in working capital
-1.25B-244.57M57.00M-926.00M-465.00M-1.08B-285.00M28.00M-532.00M-199.00M-273.00M
Change in receivables
-519.55M-461.07M-202.00M-418.00M20.00M-367.00M-562.00M163.00M-421.00M-138.00M-794.00M
Change in inventory
-963.28M-377.88M205.00M-422.00M-1.19B-1.40B-281.00M28.00M-587.00M-482.00M292.00M
Change in payables
231.47M594.39M54.02M0.00700.00M685.00M558.00M-191.00M476.00M421.00M229.00M
Change in other working capital
—0.0054.00M-86.00M-1.24B-480.00M-25.00M28.00M0.000.000.00
Other non-cash items
46.94M864.35M-1.93B799.00M-2.34B-1.09B1.52B3.69B-6.23B64.00M-409.00M
Operating cash flow
19.22B16.83B15.60B15.16B16.13B25.35B15.88B14.91B11.82B13.88B8.47B
Operating cash flow growth
+24.28%+7.90%+2.90%-6.04%-36.34%+59.65%+6.46%+26.15%-14.86%+64.02%-9.78%
Capital expenditure
-13.46B-12.36B-9.62B-7.09B-6.75B-7.38B-6.19B-5.49B-5.43B-4.48B-3.01B
Acquisitions
2.24B-4.35B-703.00M-978.00M-845.00M10.00M-33.00M-113.00M7.72B2.67B749.00M
Purchases of investments
-873.53M-1.06B-113.00M-39.00M-55.00M-45.00M-5.00M-43.00M-1.57B-723.00M-789.00M
Sales and maturities of investments
612.05M223.52M677.00M1.22B892.00M114.00M63.00M83.00M19.00M40.00M582.00M
Other investing
9.34M-197.46M166.00M-79.00M51.00M146.00M-392.00M60.00M585.00M120.00M366.00M
Investing cash flow
-11.47B-17.75B-9.59B-6.96B-6.71B-7.16B-6.56B-5.50B1.32B-2.37B-2.10B
Debt issued (repaid)
-455.48M7.85B-599.00M1.52B-843.00M-577.00M-596.00M-123.00M-2.25B-2.78B-4.95B
Shares issued
—0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00
Share buybacks
—0.000.000.000.000.00-208.00M-1.55B-5.39B-2.08B0.00
Dividends paid
-6.54B-6.16B-7.03B-6.47B-11.73B-15.36B-6.13B-10.33B-5.36B-4.25B-2.73B
Other financing
-826.33M-839.96M530.00M-330.00M-2.90B72.00M-194.00M-210.00M37.00M-31.00M182.00M
Financing cash flow
-7.82B848.98M-7.09B-5.28B-15.47B-15.86B-7.13B-12.22B-12.95B-9.14B-7.49B
Net change in cash
-102.00M377.00M-1.19B2.90B-6.03B2.42B2.35B-2.86B342.00M2.36B-1.17B
Free cash flow
5.76B4.47B5.98B8.07B9.38B17.96B9.69B9.42B6.39B9.40B5.45B
Free cash flow growth
+13.24%-25.26%-25.96%-13.96%-47.75%+85.43%+2.78%+47.46%-32.03%+72.42%+16.07%
Free cash flow margin
9.34%7.73%11.14%14.94%16.89%28.29%21.71%21.83%15.77%23.49%16.14%
Free cash flow per share
3.522.733.664.955.7611.035.955.743.695.223.02
Free cash flow per share growth
+13.01%-25.47%-26.05%-14.06%-47.78%+85.40%+3.63%+55.50%-29.36%+73.29%+17.10%
Income taxes paid
—0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00

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 Rio Tinto's cash flow

Source: Financial Modeling Prep