AOS: the cash flow

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For the quarter ending 2026-03-31, AOS had $10,700K increase in cash & cash equivalents over the period. $118,900K in free cash flow.

Cash Flow	2026-03-31	2025-12-31	2025-09-30	2025-06-30
Net earnings	118,000	125,400	132,000	152,200
Depreciation and amortization	23,900	22,300	21,600	20,500
Share based compensation expense	6,600	2,500	2,700	2,500
Deferred income taxes	18,300	-800	18,800	-4,100
Non-cash impairments	-	0	-	-
Pension settlement income	-	0	-	-
Pension settlement non-cash taxes	-	0	-	-
Current assets and liabilities	43,200	-27,900	-75,400	33,700
Noncurrent assets and liabilities	-5,800	-5,800	-4,900	-2,200
Cash provided by operating activities	129,400	183,100	255,400	139,600
Capital expenditures	10,500	17,600	14,800	17,100
Acquisition of business	470,000	0	0	0
Investments in marketable securities	0	0	20,100	0
Net proceeds from sale of marketable securities	0	1,300	0	26,100
Cash used in investing activities	-480,500	-16,300	-34,900	9,000
Proceeds from debt	564,400	1,087,300	-	-
Long-term debt incurred	-	-	-115,000	31,700
Repayments of debt	101,100	1,124,900	-	-
Common stock repurchases	51,300	65,400	84,100	130,700
Net payments from stock option activity	500	-300	-1,200	-1,300
Dividends paid	50,200	50,600	47,600	48,300
Cash provided by (used in) financing activities	361,300	-146,500	-245,500	-146,000
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents	500	1,500	-200	2,300
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	10,700	21,800	-25,200	4,900
Cash and cash equivalents - beginning of period	174,500	152,700	177,900	173,000
Cash and cash equivalents - end of period	185,200	174,500	152,700	177,900

Unit: Thousand (K) dollars (except for numbers of shares and EPS). Numbers labeled with * are estimated quarterly values.