Growth Metrics

Nl Industries (NL) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Nl Industries' FCF Payout Ratio history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 0.6 for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, FCF Payout Ratio rose 87.0% year-over-year to 0.6; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.29, down 128.91%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 1.52, 297.34% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q3 2025 was 0.6 at Nl Industries, down from 0.74 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 2.67 in Q1 2022 and bottomed at 4.63 in Q3 2024.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.06 (2023), against an average of 0.1.
  • The largest YoY upside for FCF Payout Ratio was 2847.12% in 2021 against a maximum downside of 3948.38% in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.53 in 2021, then plummeted by 94.57% to 0.03 in 2022, then surged by 472.21% to 0.16 in 2023, then soared by 172.02% to 0.45 in 2024, then crashed by 234.59% to 0.6 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NL's FCF Payout Ratio are 0.6 (Q3 2025), 0.74 (Q2 2025), and 0.09 (Q1 2025).