What does Sumitomo Corporation do with its cash?

Cash vs. profit gap

¥213.1B（純利益の 35.5%）

Shareholder payments — dividends

of net income 27.1% · of FCF 23.0%

CapEx intensity (capex ÷ revenue)

1.4%

Investing CF relative to operating CF

19.2%

Nonpositive profit and free cash flow are omitted as ratio denominators. Amounts use the period's reported currency.

• Operating cash flow is the cash the core business actually brought in, including changes in receivables and inventory.
• Free cash flow = operating cash flow − capital expenditure: a gauge of cash available for other uses.
• Large "borrowing" or "cash drawdown" flows mean the company spent more than it generated that year.