Cash Flow Statements

Retrieves the cash flow statement data for the specified tickers. The cash flow statement is a financial statement that shows how changes in balance sheet accounts and income affect cash and cash equivalents. It breaks the analysis down to operating, investing and financing activities.

The cash flow statement is a financial statement that shows how changes in balance sheet accounts and income affect cash and cash equivalents. Therefore, trailing results are available for this statement. A trailing result sums each cash flow over the window, while Cash Beginning of Period is the cash at the beginning of the first period of the window and Cash End of Period the cash at the end of the last one.

With convert_currency, the cash flows are converted to the currency of the historical data at the average exchange rate of each period (IAS 7.25), Cash End of Period at the closing rate of the period and Cash Beginning of Period at the closing rate of the period before, so it equals the Cash End of Period before it. Net Change in Cash is the change in the converted cash and Forex Changes on Cash holds the effect of the exchange rate changes on the cash held (IAS 7.28).

Also known as: operating cash flow, investing activities, financing activities.

Cash Flow Statements in Python or via the MCP

Install the Finance Toolkit with:

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_cash_flow_statement as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Toolkit

toolkit = Toolkit(
    ["CVX"],
    api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY",
    start_date="2021-01-01",
    end_date="2025-12-31",
)

toolkit.get_cash_flow_statement(
    show_columns=["Operating Cash Flow", "Capital Expenditure", "Free Cash Flow", "Dividends Paid"]
)

Or, after setting up the Finance Toolkit MCP, ask:

Which returns:

Parameters

get_cash_flow_statement accepts the following parameters.

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