Braskem (BAK) Beginning Cash Balance (2010 - 2019)

Braskem (BAK) has reported Beginning Cash Balance for 10 consecutive years, with $1.5 billion the latest figure, recorded in Q1 2019.

• Quarterly Beginning Cash Balance rose 26.73% year-over-year to $1.5 billion in Q1 2019, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2019 was $1.5 billion (up 21.09% YoY) and the FY2018 annual result came in at $1.0 billion, down 50.48% from the prior year.
• Beginning Cash Balance improved to $1.5 billion in Q1 2019 per BAK's latest filing, from -$2.0 billion in the prior quarter.
• Over the last five years, Beginning Cash Balance for BAK reached as high as $2.2 billion in Q3 2016 and fell as low as -$4.1 billion in Q4 2017.
• A 5-year average of $877.7 million and a median of $1.4 billion in 2015 frame the typical range for Beginning Cash Balance.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2016 — Beginning Cash Balance soared 90.14% — and 2018, when it plunged 54.77%.
• Year by year, Beginning Cash Balance stood at $1.1 billion in 2015, then jumped by 90.14% to $2.2 billion in 2016, then tumbled by 290.21% to -$4.1 billion in 2017, then soared by 52.01% to -$2.0 billion in 2018, then soared by 174.36% to $1.5 billion in 2019.
• According to Business Quant data, Beginning Cash Balance over the past three periods registered $1.5 billion, -$2.0 billion, and $958.4 million for Q1 2019, Q4 2018, and Q3 2018 respectively.