Esab (ESAB) FCF Payout Ratio (2021 - 2025)

Esab (ESAB) reported FCF Payout Ratio of 0.01 for Q4 2025, up 117.38% year-over-year from 0.01 in Q4 2024, and up 115.16% quarter-over-quarter from 0.09 in Q4 2025.

Esab (ESAB) FCF Payout Ratio (2021 - 2025) Analysis & Trends

Esab (ESAB) has 5 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.01 in Q4 2025.

  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q4 2025 came in at 0.01, up 117.38% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 0.02 (up 61.44% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.02, up 61.44% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio advanced to 0.01 in Q4 2025 per ESAB's latest filing, from 0.09 in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, FCF Payout Ratio peaked at 0.23 in Q3 2025 and troughed at 0.09 in Q4 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.04 and a median of 0.04 in 2022 frame the typical range for FCF Payout Ratio.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2024: FCF Payout Ratio soared 409.65% in 2022, then sank 632.96% in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.09 in 2021, then tumbled by 53.27% to 0.04 in 2022, then slumped by 62.47% to 0.02 in 2023, then slumped by 632.96% to 0.08 in 2024, then jumped by 117.38% to 0.01 in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows ESAB's FCF Payout Ratio at 0.01 in Q4 2025, 0.09 in Q4 2025, and 0.23 in Q3 2025.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 Carpenter Technology 29.34 Bn 29.04 Bn 251.80 Mn 0.08
2 Ati 27.51 Bn 27.23 Bn 262.90 Mn -
3 Mueller Industries 14.99 Bn 13.61 Bn 358.44 Mn 0.08
4 Commercial Metals 8.04 Bn 7.54 Bn 387.91 Mn 0.46
5 Esab 6.48 Bn 6.34 Bn 257.79 Mn 0.01
6 Gpgi 3.86 Bn 3.85 Bn - -0.01
7 Worthington Enterprises 2.96 Bn 2.95 Bn 109.47 Mn 0.19
8 Proto Labs 1.93 Bn 1.79 Bn 63.59 Mn -
9 Ryerson Holding 1.17 Bn 1.15 Bn 288.80 Mn -0.05
10 Mayville Engineering Company 727.03 Mn 724.96 Mn 10.96 Mn -

Historic Data

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DateValue
Dec 31, 2025 0.01
Oct 3, 2025 -0.09
Jul 4, 2025 0.23
Apr 4, 2025 0.04
Dec 31, 2024 -0.08
Sep 27, 2024 0.05
Jun 28, 2024 0.10
Dec 31, 2023 0.02
Sep 29, 2023 -0.04
Jun 30, 2023 0.06
Mar 31, 2023 0.10
Dec 31, 2022 0.04
Sep 30, 2022 0.03
Jul 1, 2022 0.15
Apr 1, 2022 0.09
Dec 31, 2021 0.09
Oct 1, 2021 -0.02
Apr 2, 2021 0.02