Company: ROK
Filing Date: 2025-02-10
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001024478-25-000010
Chunk: 31

Company: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-10
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 31
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 Three Months EndedDecember 31, 20242023Cash provided by operating activities$364 $33 Capital expenditures(71)(68)Free cash flow$293 $(35)

Our definition of free cash flow takes into consideration capital investments required to maintain the operations of our businesses and execute our strategy. Cash provided by operating activities adds back non-cash depreciation expense to earnings but does not reflect a charge for necessary capital expenditures. Our definition of free cash flow excludes the operating cash flows and capital expenditures related to our discontinued operations, if any. Operating, investing, and financing cash flows of our discontinued operations, if any, are presented separately in our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. In our opinion, free cash flow provides useful information to investors regarding our ability to generate cash from business operations that is available for acquisitions and other investments, service of debt principal, dividends, and share repurchases. We use free cash flow, as defined, as one measure to monitor and evaluate our performance, including as a financial measure for our annual incentive compensation. Our definition of free cash flow may be different from definitions used by other companies.

Cash provided by operating activities was $364 million for the three months ended December 31, 2024, compared to $33 million for the three months ended December 31, 2023. Free cash flow was $293 million for the three months ended December 31, 2024, compared to a net outflow of $35 million for the three months ended December 31, 2023. The year over year increases in cash provided by operating activities and free cash flow were primarily due no payout of incentive compensation in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 related to fiscal 2024 performance.

Our Short-term debt as of December 31, 2024, included commercial paper borrowings of $629 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 4.67 percent, and a weighted average maturity period of 33 days. Our Short-term debt as of September 30, 2024, included commercial paper borrowings of $657 million, with a weighted average interest rate of 5.14 percent, and a weighted average maturity period of 24 days. In December 2022, Sensia entered into an unsecured $75 million line of credit. As of December 31, 2024, and September 30, 2024, included in Short-term debt was $70 million borrowed against the line of credit with an interest rate of