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Ross Stores Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST)

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Cash Flow Statement
Quarterly Data

The cash flow statement provides information about a company cash receipts and cash payments during an accounting period, showing how these cash flows link the ending cash balance to the beginning balance shown on the company balance sheet.

The cash flow statement consists of three parts: cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities, cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities, and cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities.

Ross Stores Inc., consolidated cash flow statement (quarterly data)

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3 months ended: Oct 29, 2022 Jul 30, 2022 Apr 30, 2022 Jan 29, 2022 Oct 30, 2021 Jul 31, 2021 May 1, 2021 Jan 30, 2021 Oct 31, 2020 Aug 1, 2020 May 2, 2020 Feb 1, 2020 Nov 2, 2019 Aug 3, 2019 May 4, 2019 Feb 2, 2019 Nov 3, 2018 Aug 4, 2018 May 5, 2018 Feb 3, 2018 Oct 28, 2017 Jul 29, 2017 Apr 29, 2017 Jan 28, 2017 Oct 29, 2016 Jul 30, 2016 Apr 30, 2016
Net earnings (loss) 342,036 384,517 338,445 366,822 385,030 494,258 476,479 237,980 131,197 22,047 (305,842) 456,133 370,932 412,721 421,142 441,693 338,108 389,404 418,252 450,747 274,449 316,539 321,018 300,568 244,546 281,906 290,634
Depreciation and amortization 101,384 97,073 92,108 98,525 88,045 86,584 87,510 96,052 88,567 89,028 90,598 95,803 88,191 84,141 82,757 84,206 83,748 82,606 79,797 85,908 76,350 75,085 75,820 78,379 75,506 74,752 73,878
Loss on early extinguishment of debt — — — — — — — 184 239,769 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Stock-based compensation 29,493 26,803 36,071 37,442 38,517 29,584 28,674 27,301 27,370 22,158 24,739 24,838 25,987 24,924 19,689 24,224 23,781 23,820 23,760 22,480 22,218 22,481 20,238 18,065 20,283 18,490 17,716
Gain on sale of assets — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — (6,328) — — — — — — —
Deferred income taxes 17,242 29,905 29,233 (19,302) 2,012 7,613 25,452 (13,162) (20,527) (7,594) 13,471 8,939 1,202 5,325 16,543 12,170 (2,057) 4,822 16,842 (43,977) 648 (2,421) 10,847 (663) (13,549) (5,204) 10,713
Merchandise inventory 222,876 (43,327) (411,278) (31,031) (480,215) (53,035) (189,010) 121,408 (512,407) 639,280 75,076 336,457 (332,927) (22,096) (63,331) 228,638 (280,691) 197,067 (253,721) 198,490 (231,892) (13,573) (81,874) 250,859 (203,536) (61,760) (79,345)
Other current assets (789) (959) (70,331) 51,559 13,281 13,826 (77,246) (7,674) 20,192 (140,210) 88,286 35,846 9,148 (13,532) (41,777) 31,292 2,673 (18,726) (46,028) 30,814 (6,090) (19,352) (37,168) 42,117 (8,272) (5,623) (29,150)
Accounts payable (164,514) (98,566) (189,888) (286,966) 61,386 11,351 349,540 (187,737) 1,416,284 311,208 (600,918) (191,495) 118,598 64,396 122,654 (217,579) 206,054 (116,669) 238,677 (230,204) 116,698 (7,960) 162,788 (130,083) 20,558 68,724 123,886
Other current liabilities (42,803) 59,676 (325,075) 37,611 83,021 149,586 (71,623) 52,765 163,350 224,254 (268,925) (13,455) 52,497 99,679 (108,208) 1,322 65,106 66,618 (95,966) (2,499) 110,671 (101,004) 41,900 (23,709) 113,493 (67,523) 54,415
Income taxes 17,338 (95,566) 81,625 15,863 (32,846) (148,851) 121,255 159,319 25,488 30,141 (175,142) 7,380 (11,426) (87,399) 56,206 9,044 (3,719) (91,941) 90,322 — — — — — — — —
Operating lease assets and liabilities, net 3,974 1,758 2,902 2,880 2,113 100 2,554 4,690 3,410 2,568 3,001 2,720 4,635 5,421 2,855 — — — — — — — — — — — —
Other long-term, net 2,695 (1,312) (79) (38,207) (2,086) 1,559 (765) (28,316) 28,009 37,983 (2,786) (2,550) 630 896 457 1,595 2,885 5,133 115 10,214 4,651 7,297 7,269 (5,910) 645 6,712 6,333
Change in assets and liabilities 38,777 (178,296) (912,124) (248,291) (355,346) (25,464) 134,705 114,455 1,144,326 1,105,224 (881,408) 174,903 (158,845) 47,365 (31,144) 54,312 (7,692) 41,482 (66,601) 6,815 (5,962) (134,592) 92,915 133,274 (77,112) (59,470) 76,139
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 186,896 (24,515) (754,712) (131,626) (226,772) 98,317 276,341 224,830 1,479,505 1,208,816 (752,600) 304,483 (43,465) 161,755 87,845 174,912 97,780 152,730 53,798 64,898 93,254 (39,447) 199,820 229,055 5,128 28,568 178,446
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 528,932 360,002 (416,267) 235,196 158,258 592,575 752,820 462,810 1,610,702 1,230,863 (1,058,442) 760,616 327,467 574,476 508,987 616,605 435,888 542,134 472,050 515,645 367,703 277,092 520,838 529,623 249,674 310,474 469,080
Additions to property and equipment (174,555) (133,498) (109,848) (179,924) (123,479) (117,500) (136,937) (65,888) (89,498) (110,318) (139,729) (154,232) (150,937) (154,685) (95,629) (120,532) (114,731) (98,842) (79,793) (104,560) (97,547) (93,345) (75,971) (77,438) (73,016) (67,702) (79,724)
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 15,981 — — — — — — —
(Increase) decrease in restricted cash and investments — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1,482 1,075 (187) (60) (108) 3,639 (99) (44)
Proceeds from investments — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 517 2,750 234 — 505 2 19 19 — 815 400 514 —
Net cash used in investing activities (174,555) (133,498) (109,848) (179,924) (123,479) (117,500) (136,937) (65,888) (89,498) (110,318) (139,729) (154,232) (150,937) (154,685) (95,112) (117,782) (114,497) (98,842) (79,288) (87,095) (96,453) (93,513) (76,031) (76,731) (68,977) (67,287) (79,768)
Issuance of common stock related to stock plans 6,406 5,975 5,917 6,443 6,092 6,471 6,063 6,446 6,013 5,631 5,444 5,758 5,545 5,611 5,295 5,197 5,098 5,135 4,682 4,800 4,511 4,753 4,404 4,357 4,320 4,362 5,500
Treasury stock purchased (6,738) (521) (38,113) (253) (8,077) (1,637) (47,378) (131) (12,745) (29) (32,317) (3,745) (4,571) (1,469) (50,880) (704) (2,619) (6,263) (44,798) 7 (2,277) (4,409) (38,754) (451) (3,542) (2,395) (36,933)
Repurchase of common stock (243,693) (235,435) (239,565) (233,018) (241,195) (175,784) — — — — (132,467) (309,091) (325,650) (320,129) (320,130) (268,500) (277,920) (273,210) (255,370) (226,165) (218,750) (215,043) (215,042) (169,697) (178,788) (175,757) (175,758)
Dividends paid (107,455) (108,285) (108,908) (100,603) (101,136) (101,865) (101,519) 7 3 — (101,414) (91,423) (91,728) (92,920) (93,722) (83,326) (83,892) (84,561) (85,410) (61,067) (61,497) (62,167) (62,795) (53,086) (53,470) (53,848) (54,236)
Net proceeds from issuance of short-term debt — — — — — — — — — — 805,601 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Payments of short-term debt — — — — — — — (629) (801,878) (2,479) (615) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Net proceeds from issuance of long-term debt — — — — — — — — 989,085 — 1,976,030 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Payments of long-term debt — — — (65,000) — — — — (775,009) — — — — — — (85,000) — — — — — — — — — — —
Payments of debt extinguishment and debt issuance costs — — — — — — — (688) (228,746) (119) (3,135) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — (1,227) 1,876 2,144 20,538
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (351,480) (338,266) (380,669) (392,431) (344,316) (272,815) (142,834) 5,005 (823,277) 3,004 2,517,127 (398,501) (416,404) (408,907) (459,437) (432,333) (359,333) (358,899) (380,896) (282,425) (278,013) (276,866) (312,187) (220,104) (229,604) (225,494) (240,889)
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents 2,897 (111,762) (906,784) (337,159) (309,537) 202,260 473,049 401,927 697,927 1,123,549 1,318,956 207,883 (239,874) 10,884 (45,562) 66,490 (37,942) 84,393 11,866 146,125 (6,763) (93,287) 132,620 232,788 (48,907) 17,693 148,423

Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-10-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-07-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-01-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-10-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-05-01), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-01-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-08-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-05-02), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-02-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-11-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-08-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-05-04), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-02-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-11-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-08-04), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-05-05), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-02-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-10-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-07-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-04-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-01-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-10-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-07-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-04-30).


The financial data reveals a period of generally stable operational performance interrupted by a significant volatility event in early 2020, followed by a strategic shift in capital management and a subsequent recovery. Net cash provided by operating activities remained consistently positive from 2016 through early 2020, typically ranging between 250 million and 600 million dollars per quarter.

Operating Cash Flow and Working Capital
A critical inflection point occurred in May 2020, where net earnings dropped to a loss of 305.8 million dollars, contributing to a net cash outflow from operating activities of 1.058 billion dollars. This was followed by a sharp rebound in August and October 2020, with operating cash flows peaking at 1.61 billion dollars. This surge was primarily driven by significant fluctuations in working capital, specifically a substantial increase in accounts payable which reached 1.416 billion dollars in October 2020. In the subsequent years, operating cash flows exhibited higher volatility, including a notable deficit of 416.3 million dollars in April 2022.
Investing Activities and Capital Expenditure
Net cash used in investing activities is characterized by a consistent and growing commitment to capital expenditures. Additions to property and equipment increased from a range of 67 million to 80 million dollars per quarter in 2016 to a higher range of 109 million to 175 million dollars per quarter by 2022. This indicates a sustained strategy of investment in physical infrastructure and store assets throughout the analyzed period.
Financing Activities and Capital Structure
Financing activities transitioned from a consistent focus on shareholder returns to aggressive liquidity procurement during the 2020 crisis. Between 2016 and early 2020, cash outflows were dominated by common stock repurchases and dividends. In May 2020, the company shifted strategy, generating 2.517 billion dollars in financing cash flow through the issuance of 805.6 million dollars in short-term debt and 1.976 billion dollars in long-term debt. Post-2020, the company resumed share repurchases and maintained a steady increase in dividend payments, which grew from approximately 54 million dollars per quarter in 2016 to over 107 million dollars by late 2022.

The overall liquidity position shows a significant accumulation of cash in 2020 due to debt issuance, which provided a necessary buffer during the operational downturn. The subsequent period is marked by a gradual deployment of this cash to fund capital expenditures and restore shareholder distributions, although the volatility in merchandise inventory and accounts payable continues to impact quarterly net cash movements.

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