Illustrative year: the reconciliation behind the coverage test (hypothetical manufacturer, $ millions)

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-07, from Is a Dividend Safe? Free Cash Flow Test.

Rows × columns

6 × 2

Computed

2026-08-07

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-07, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    cash_flow_line,
    usd_millions
FROM
(
    SELECT 'Net income' AS cash_flow_line, 400 AS usd_millions, 1 AS line_order
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Depreciation add-back', 200, 2
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Net cash from operating activities', 600, 3
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Capital expenditures', -450, 4
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Free cash flow', 600 - 450, 5
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Dividends paid', -320, 6
)
ORDER BY line_order