Growth Metrics

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS) FCF Payout Ratio (2017 - 2026)

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions posted quarterly FCF Payout Ratio of 0.43 for Q1 2026, up 9.43% year-on-year from 0.39 in Q1 2025, and up 92.16% on a QoQ basis from 0.22 in Q4 2025.

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS) has 10 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.43 in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio rose 9.43% year-over-year to 0.43; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.21 (down 6.01% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.2, down 3.11% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 0.43, up from 0.22 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 0.56 in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 43.5 in Q1 2023.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.16 (2025), against an average of 2.35.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Payout Ratio jumped 374.93%; it then sank 62517.11% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.15 in 2022, then surged by 70.94% to 0.26 in 2023, then rose by 7.41% to 0.28 in 2024, then decreased by 20.12% to 0.22 in 2025, then jumped by 92.16% to 0.43 in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.43 (Q1 2026), 0.22 (Q4 2025), and 0.16 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 Veralto 20.72 Bn 19.29 Bn 854.00 Mn 0.19
2 Zurn Elkay Water Solutions 7.83 Bn 7.56 Bn 205.80 Mn 0.43
3 Federal Signal 6.47 Bn 6.40 Bn 179.40 Mn 0.10
4 Ceco Environmental 2.82 Bn 2.78 Bn 63.92 Mn -0.05
5 PureCycle Technologies 2.21 Bn 2.11 Bn - -
6 Euro Tech Holdings 1.36 Bn 1.34 Bn - -
7 Energy Recovery 421.81 Mn 335.66 Mn 2.70 Mn -
8 CleanCore Solutions 173.22 Mn 156.17 Mn -419,259.00 -
9 Arq 116.43 Mn 111.76 Mn 9.94 Mn -
10 374Water 42.95 Mn 42.95 Mn -2.43 Mn -

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 0.43
Dec 31, 2025 0.22
Sep 30, 2025 0.16
Jun 30, 2025 0.15
Mar 31, 2025 0.39
Dec 31, 2024 0.28
Sep 30, 2024 0.16
Jun 30, 2024 0.17
Mar 31, 2024 0.28
Dec 31, 2023 0.26
Sep 30, 2023 0.12
Jun 30, 2023 0.11
Mar 31, 2023 -43.50
Dec 31, 2022 0.15
Sep 30, 2022 0.56
Jun 30, 2022 0.09
Mar 31, 2022 -0.07
Dec 31, 2021 -0.16
Sep 30, 2021 0.12
Jun 30, 2021 0.16
Mar 31, 2021 0.17
Dec 31, 2020 0.17
Sep 30, 2020 0.04
Jun 30, 2020 0.25
Mar 31, 2020 0.09
Dec 31, 2019 0.08
Dec 31, 2018 0.09
Sep 30, 2018 0.10
Jun 30, 2018 1.14
Mar 31, 2018 0.06
Dec 31, 2017 0.11
Sep 30, 2017 0.37
Jun 30, 2017 0.19
Mar 31, 2017 0.07