GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

FINANCIAL POLICY. GE Aerospace is committed to maintaining strong investment grade ratings with a disciplined capital allocation strategy. The Company will continue to invest in future growth and innovation through research and development and capital expenditures. We intend to return a majority of our free cash flow* to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. Merger and acquisition investments will be pursued in a disciplined way and focused on those that offer strategic, operational and financial synergies.

LIQUIDITY POLICY. We maintain a strong focus on liquidity and define our liquidity risk tolerance based on sources and uses to maintain a sufficient liquidity position to meet our business needs and financial obligations under both normal and stressed conditions. We believe that our consolidated liquidity and availability under our revolving credit facilities will be sufficient to meet our liquidity needs.

CONSOLIDATED LIQUIDITY. Our primary sources of liquidity consist of cash and cash equivalents, free cash flow* from our operating businesses, and access to capital markets. If needed, we can also draw from short-term borrowing facilities, including revolving credit facilities. Cash generation can be subject to variability based on many factors, including receipt of down payments on large equipment orders, timing of billings on long-term contracts, timing of customer allowances and market conditions. Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was $12.4 billion at March 31, 2025, of which $4.3 billion was held in the U.S. and $8.1 billion was held outside the U.S.

Cash held outside the U.S. has generally been reinvested in active foreign business operations; however, substantially all of our unrepatriated income was subject to U.S. federal tax and, if there is a change in reinvestment, we would expect to be able to repatriate available cash (excluding amounts held in countries with currency controls) without significant tax cost.

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at March 31, 2025 included $0.4 billion of cash held in countries with currency control restrictions, which may restrict the transfer of funds to the U.S. or limit our ability to transfer funds to the U.S. without incurring substantial costs. Excluded from cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was $1.1 billion of cash in our run-off insurance operations, which was classified as All other assets in the Statement of Financial Position. Also excluded from cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was $1.4 billion of cash in our discontinued operations held by Bank BPH (see Note 2).

On March 7, 2024, the Company announced that the Board of Directors had authorized the repurchase of up to $15.0 billion of our common stock. Under this program, shares may be repurchased on the open market, via various strategies, including plans complying with rules 10b5-1 and 10b-18 as well as plans using accelerated share repurchases. In connection with this authorization, we repurchased 9.5 million shares for $1.9 billion in the first quarter of 2025. This included repurchases of 5.5 million shares for $1.1 billion using accelerated stock repurchases as a mechanism to achieve planned repurchase volumes within a quarter during closed windows.

BORROWINGS. Consolidated total borrowings were $19.6 billion and $19.3 billion at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, an increase of $0.3 billion, mainly due to foreign exchange movement. The Company also holds a five-year unsecured revolving credit facility in an aggregate committed amount of $3.0 billion and had zero outstanding at March 31, 2025.

CREDIT RATINGS AND CONDITIONS. We have relied, and may continue to rely, on the short- and long-term debt capital markets to fund, among other things, a significant portion of our operations. The cost and availability of debt financing is influenced by our credit ratings. Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) and Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) currently issue ratings on our short- and long-term debt. On February 14, 2025, Moody's upgraded our long-term rating from Baa1 to A3 and maintained our positive outlook. On March 25, 2025, S&P upgraded our long-term rating from BBB+ to A- and maintained stable outlook. Our credit ratings as of the date of this filing are set forth in the table below.

Our ratings may be subject to a revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating organization, and each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating.

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Substantially all of the Company's debt agreements in place at March 31, 2025 do not contain material credit rating covenants. Our unused back-up revolving syndicated credit facility contains a customary net debt-to-EBITDA financial covenant, which we satisfied at March 31, 2025.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK. As a result of our global operations, we generate and incur a small portion of our revenue and expenses in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Such principal currencies include the euro, the British Sterling pound, and Brazilian real. The effect of foreign currency fluctuations on income was insignificant for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. See Note 20 for further information about our risk exposures, our use of derivatives, and the effects of this activity on our financial statements.

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

CASH FLOWS FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS. The most significant source of cash in CFOA is customer-related activities, the largest of which is collecting cash resulting from product or services sales. The most significant operating use of cash is to pay our suppliers, employees, tax authorities and postretirement plans.

Cash from operating activities was $1.5 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, a decrease of$0.1 billion compared to 2024, primarily due to: a decrease in All other operating activities, primarily driven by payments of employee benefit liabilities, an increase in income tax payments and working capital growth, partially offset by an increase in net income (after adjusting for depreciation of property, plant, and equipment, amortization of intangible assets and non-cash (gains) losses related to our retained and sold ownership interests in GE HealthCare) driven by all segments and an increase in sales discounts and allowances. The components of All other operating activities included:

The cash impact from changes in working capital was $0.1 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, a decrease of $0.2 billion compared to 2024, due to: current receivables of $(0.6) billion, driven by higher volume partially offset by higher collections; inventories, including deferred inventory, of $(0.2) billion, driven by higher material purchases; current contract assets, contract liabilities and current deferred income of $0.1 billion, driven by net unfavorable changes in estimated profitability on long-term service contracts; and accounts payable of $0.5 billion, driven by higher volume, partially offset by higher disbursements related to purchases of materials in prior periods.

Cash used for investing activities was $(0.3) billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, a decrease of $0.8 billion compared to 2024, primarily due to: lower cash paid related to net settlements between continuing operations and businesses in discontinued operations of $2.2 billion, primarily related to the separation of GE Vernova in 2024 (a component of All other investing activities); and lower net purchases of insurance investment securities of $1.2 billion; partially offset by a decrease in proceeds of $2.6 billion from the disposition of our retained ownership interests in GE HealthCare in 2024. Cash used for additions to property, plant and equipment and internal-use software, which are components of free cash flow*, was $(0.2) billion for both the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Cash used for financing activities was $(2.3) billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, an increase of $2.2 billion compared to 2024, primarily due to: an increase in treasury stock repurchases of $1.6 billion; a decrease in cash received of $0.4 billion from stock option exercises (a component of All other financing activities); and higher dividends paid to shareholders of $0.2 billion; partially offset by lower net debt maturities of $0.2 billion.

CASH FLOWS FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

Cash used for operating activities of discontinued operations decreased $0.6 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to 2024, primarily driven by working capital cash usage and cash paid for income taxes at our former GE Vernova business in 2024.

Cash from investing activities of discontinued operations decreased $1.9 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to 2024, primarily driven by lower cash received of $2.2 billion from net settlements between our discontinued operations and businesses in continuing operations related to the establishment of the opening cash balance for our former GE Vernova business in 2024.

Cash used for financing activities of discontinued operations decreased $0.1 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to 2024, primarily driven by net debt repayments by our former GE Vernova business in 2024.

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