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Shell (SHEL) Beginning Cash Balance (2016 - 2026)

Shell filings provide 18 years of Beginning Cash Balance readings, the most recent being -$2.8 billion for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Beginning Cash Balance changed N/A to -$2.8 billion in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was -$10.7 billion, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at -$11.8 billion, down 22.06% from a year prior.
  • Beginning Cash Balance hit -$2.8 billion in Q1 2026 for Shell, down from -$2.4 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Beginning Cash Balance ranged from a high of -$1.2 billion in Q3 2022 to a low of -$4.1 billion in Q4 2023.
  • Median Beginning Cash Balance over the past 5 years was -$2.7 billion (2024), compared with a mean of -$2.5 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Beginning Cash Balance: skyrocketed 71.76% in 2022 and later crashed 187.62% in 2023.
  • Shell's Beginning Cash Balance stood at -$2.2 billion in 2022, then plummeted by 82.86% to -$4.1 billion in 2023, then surged by 34.29% to -$2.7 billion in 2024, then rose by 9.31% to -$2.4 billion in 2025, then fell by 15.65% to -$2.8 billion in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Beginning Cash Balance were -$2.8 billion (Q1 2026), -$2.4 billion (Q4 2025), and -$2.8 billion (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.