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stocks_get_cash_flow_statements

Normalized cash-flow statements for one US public company, newest first.

Description

Normalized cash-flow statements for one US public company, newest first.

Same response shape as stocks_get_income_statements and stocks_get_balance_sheets — the statements trio is interchangeable: data holds the company identity (ticker, cik, company_name, period_type) and the bounded statements list; meta holds provenance (source: "sec_edgar_companyfacts", and as_of, the freshest line-level timestamp on this page); pagination holds the cursor paging state (pass pagination.next_cursor back as cursor).

Set as_reported=true to serve as-originally-reported values instead of the latest restated values, and keep it constant while paging. Before a company's next statement ingest this mode raises out_of_coverage. In both modes, meta.restatements lists restated reported lines with original and superseding accessions. Arithmetic-derived Q4, non-fiscal-year TTM, YTD-difference, and FCF lines carry null lineage; a TTM matching a reported fiscal year carries the annual accessions.

Each statement is one fiscal period with a lines object keyed by canonical line names: net_cash_operating, net_cash_investing, net_cash_financing, capex, depreciation_amortization, share_repurchases, dividends_paid, and the derived free_cash_flow (net_cash_operatingcapex). A missing key means the company did not report that line for the period — never zero (a company with no capex has no free_cash_flow). Each value carries value (exact decimal as a JSON string), unit, currency, as_of, and the source filing's accession_number.

For ratios and coverage multiples, prefer stocks_get_financial_metrics — computed server-side — over deriving them from these raw lines.

Errors carry a machine code: unknown_entity for a well-formed symbol we hold no mapping for, out_of_coverage when as_reported is requested before the company's first vintage-era statement ingest, and bad_parameter for input the schema can't reject (a non-ticker string or a malformed cursor).

Parameters

Input schema

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
tickerstringYesTicker symbol, e.g. 'AAPL' or 'BRK.B' (class separators accepted).
period"annual" | "quarterly" | "ttm"No"annual"Fiscal frame: 'annual' = full fiscal years (FY), 'quarterly' = fiscal quarters (Q1–Q4), 'ttm' = trailing twelve months (rolled up from quarters where available; returns no statements when none is computable).
limitintegerNo4Fiscal periods to return, newest first (1–12).
cursorstring | nullNonullOpaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`; omit to start from the newest period.
as_reportedbooleanNofalseServe as-originally-reported values instead of latest restated values. Keep this constant while paging. Before the next statement ingest, this mode raises `out_of_coverage`. Reported restatements carry original and superseding accessions; arithmetic-derived Q4, non-fiscal-year TTM, YTD-difference, and FCF lines carry null lineage, while a TTM matching a reported fiscal year carries the annual accessions.

Provenance

Sources

Dataset registry: stocks_fundamentals