Financial profile · Q3 FY2026

Scaling aerospace operations with improving margins and working-capital-sensitive cash flow

Bombardier’s multi-year pattern is one of expanding sales and operating leverage, with operating profit rising as the business scales. Cash generation remains sensitive to customer advances, inventory and other working-capital timing, while financing costs can make common net earnings more volatile than operating results.

What is developing

The latest results maintain the pattern of improving operating profitability and positive free cash flow. However, the trailing cash-flow increase reflects substantial working-capital inflows, so it does not by itself establish a lasting change in underlying cash conversion.

What matters next

Whether operating cash flow remains aligned with earnings as customer advances and inventory levels change.

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Metric FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
2.3B 2.5B 2.3B 2.1B 2B 1.6B 1.3B 1.6B 1.6B 1.9B
1.4B 1.4B 1.3B 1.3B 1.6B 949m 693m 264m 614m 916m
904m 1.2B 999m 776m 430m 617m 598m 1.3B 1B 999m
1.4B 864m 1.1B 742m 688m 185m 472m 108m 47m 340m
2.9B 3.6B 4.2B 4.3B 355m 324m 319m 342m 472m 584m
2.7B 3.5B 4.1B 4.2B 339m 300m 312m 335m 458m 560m
126m 95m 109m 120m 16m 24m 7m 7m 14m 24m
4.3B 3.4B 4.4B 4.6B 3.7B 3.2B 3.3B 3.8B 4B 4.1B
427m 4.6B 357m 1.7B 10B 164m 181m 133m 177m 173m
11.3B 15B 12.3B 13.5B 16.6B 5.5B 5.6B 5.9B 6.4B 7.1B
1.9B 1.7B 1.6B 1.8B 668m 837m 1.2B 1.4B 1.4B 1.4B
— 1.7B 1.6B 1.8B 668m 837m 1.2B 1.4B 1.4B 1.4B
— (2.6B) (2.5B) (2B) (1.1B) (1.1B) (1.1B) (1.2B) (1.3B) (1.4B)
5.2B 3.6B 4.5B 4.6B 4.4B 4.1B 3.9B 3.6B 3.3B 3.1B
1.9B 2B 1.9B 1.9B 0 — — — — —
1.2B 1.3B 3.2B 2B 912m 1.7B 899m 757m 573m 752m
1.3B 1.2B 1.3B 1.1B 468m 637m 753m 826m 1B 1.3B
1.9B 2B 1.9B 1.9B 0 — — — — —
22.8B 24.9B 25B 25B 23.1B 12.8B 12.3B 12.5B 12.7B 13.6B
2B 2.7B 3.5B 3.3B 1.1B 880m 1B 1.6B 1.4B 1.4B
780m 954m 894m 963m 235m 137m 126m 125m 147m 89m
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31m 18m 9m 8m 1.9B 0 0 0 299m 607m
7.9B 10.5B 8B 11.1B 13.6B 3.8B 4.3B 4.3B 3.9B 4.3B
3.8B 3.8B 4.3B 5.7B 2.4B 2.9B 3.3B 3.5B 3B 3.4B
10.7B 14.2B 12.4B 15.3B 16.8B 4.8B 5.4B 5.9B 5.8B 6.4B
8.7B 9.2B 9.1B 9.3B 8.2B 7B 6B 5.6B 5.2B 4.5B
1.7B 1.9B 1.5B 1.8B 2.7B 0 0 — — —
7.8B 6.2B 7.5B 6.2B 4.7B 4B 3.7B 3.3B 3.6B 3.5B
28.8B 31.5B 30.5B 32.6B 32.4B 15.9B 15.1B 14.9B 14.7B 14.5B
2.5B 2.5B 3B 3B 3B 3B 3B 3.1B 3.1B 3.1B
(8.4B) (8.9B) (8.3B) (10.5B) (12.1B) (6.5B) (6.1B) (6B) (5.4B) (4.4B)
128m 171m 176m 205m 413m 475m 491m 479m 471m 466m
6m 4m (1m) 9m 20m 13m (13m) 5m 6m 6m
(272m) (366m) (452m) (312m) (668m) (37m) (60m) 24m (103m) (1m)
(6.1B) (6.6B) (5.6B) (7.7B) (9.3B) (3.1B) (2.8B) (2.4B) (2B) (889m)
22.8B 24.9B 25B 25B 23.1B 12.8B 12.3B 12.5B 12.7B 13.6B
2.2B 2.2B 2.4B 2.4B 2.4B 97.7m 94.6m 97.7m 98.6m 99.1m
21m 21m 21m 21m 21m 21.4m 21.4m 21.4m 21.4m 21.4m