Rob Del Bene
CFO at DXC Technology
As a result, capital expenditures as a percentage of revenue declined to 2.8% compared to 6% in the same period last year. We also continued to minimize new financial lease originations, recording only $1,000,000 this quarter. Restructuring payments for the quarter were an incremental $4,000,000 year to year. Since the start of fiscal twenty twenty five, we've taken deliberate steps to strengthen our balance sheet by reducing debt and building cash to create financial flexibility. Over the past five quarters, we paid down nearly $350,000,000 of capital leases while eliminating new finance lease originations to just $25,000,000 These efforts, partially offset by currency movements in our euro denominated bonds, have brought our total debt down $60,000,000 to approximately $4,000,000,000 Over the same time period, our ability to consistently generate strong free cash flow enabled us to increase our cash balance by almost $570,000,000 since the start of fiscal twenty twenty five, bringing it to 1,800,000,000.0 As a result, we have reduced our net debt by approximately $630,000,000 With this solid financial foundation, we will continue to execute with focus and discipline against our capital allocation priorities for the year that include continuing to invest in our business to accomplish our top priority, sustained profitable revenue growth further strengthening our balance sheet by minimizing new financial lease originations and retiring a portion of our senior notes maturing in January 2026 and returning capital to shareholders with plans to spend 150,000,000 on share repurchases in fiscal twenty twenty six.