Capital Expenditures (Capex)

Cash spent acquiring or improving long-lived physical assets (PP&E). EDGAR stores this as a positive outflow (credit-balance element); the presentation layer negates it. Maintenance capex sustains existing assets; growth capex expands capacity. Key input to Free Cash Flow (FCF = OCF − Capex). Primary tag: PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; broader fallback: PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets.

Formula

see Free Cash Flow

Representative XBRL tag

PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment

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Related terms

• Amortization of Intangibles
• Book value / share
• Cash & Equivalents
• Cash from Financing

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