Growth Metrics

Esab (ESAB) FCF Margin (2021 - 2025)

Esab (ESAB) reported FCF Margin of 10.74% for Q4 2025, down 449.0% year-over-year from 3.08% in Q4 2024, and up 11.18% on a QoQ basis from 9.66% in Q4 2025.

Esab (ESAB) has 5 years of FCF Margin data on file, last reported at 10.74% in Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly FCF Margin fell 449.0% year-over-year to 10.74% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 7.5% (down 357.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 7.5%, down 357.0% from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin rose to 10.74% in Q4 2025 per ESAB's latest filing, from 9.66% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 15.23% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 1.57% in Q2 2022.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 9.9% (2021), against an average of 8.89%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Margin plunged 866 bps; it then surged 445 bps in 2023.
  • Tracing ESAB's FCF Margin over 5 years: stood at 6.72% in 2021, then jumped by 64 bps to 11.02% in 2022, then jumped by 36 bps to 14.95% in 2023, then gained by 2 bps to 15.23% in 2024, then decreased by 30 bps to 10.74% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three latest ESAB FCF Margin figures stand at 10.74% (Q4 2025), 9.66% (Q4 2025), and 5.23% (Q3 2025).

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Margin (Qtr)
1 Ati 22.19 Bn 21.90 Bn 262.90 Mn 6.34%
2 Carpenter Technology 21.71 Bn 21.41 Bn 251.80 Mn 15.38%
3 Mueller Industries 14.55 Bn 13.18 Bn 358.44 Mn 5.24%
4 Esab 5.57 Bn 5.43 Bn 257.79 Mn 10.74%
5 Worthington Enterprises 2.71 Bn 2.70 Bn 109.47 Mn 12.71%
6 Proto Labs 1.70 Bn 1.56 Bn 63.59 Mn 10.04%
7 Mayville Engineering Company 520.33 Mn 518.26 Mn 10.96 Mn -3.34%
8 Insteel Industries 517.83 Mn 502.74 Mn 16.49 Mn 0.39%
9 Tredegar 271.32 Mn 255.71 Mn 28.99 Mn -1.71%
10 Techprecision 38.93 Mn 38.86 Mn 381,000.00 -11.66%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Dec 31, 2025 10.74%
Oct 3, 2025 9.66%
Jul 4, 2025 5.23%
Apr 4, 2025 4.15%
Dec 31, 2024 15.23%
Sep 27, 2024 13.43%
Jun 28, 2024 10.46%
Mar 29, 2024 5.37%
Dec 31, 2023 14.95%
Sep 29, 2023 14.03%
Jun 30, 2023 7.41%
Mar 31, 2023 4.44%
Dec 31, 2022 11.02%
Sep 30, 2022 11.48%
Jul 1, 2022 2.95%
Apr 1, 2022 1.57%
Dec 31, 2021 6.72%
Oct 1, 2021 10.14%
Jul 2, 2021 8.51%
Apr 2, 2021 10.23%