Alcoa price to free cash flow AA

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2017.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 28.4×
9-year median: 22.2×
Against its 9-year history: 58th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
9-year range: 3.3× to 325×
Peer median: 15.8×

Alcoa's price to free cash flow is 28.4× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its 9-year median of 22.2×, close to the middle of its last 9 years.

Over that time it ranged from 3.3× in Mar 2020 to 325× in Feb 2022.

The median for 10 materials stocks of a similar size is 15.8×.

Price to free cash flow over time

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	28.4×	26.3×	71.4×
2025	27.1×	12.6×	212×
2024	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2023	43.8×	10.2×	47.4×
2022	10.0×	5.3×	325×
2021	248×	13.8×	248×
2020	17.7×	3.3×	89.9×
2019	7.1×	4.7×	112×
2018	141×	9.4×	171×
2017	16.4×	12.6×	71.3×

Against its peers

Companies in Basic Materials nearest Alcoa's size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
AAAlcoa	28.4×
CLXClorox	25.8×
HLHecla Mining	18.0×
ALBAlbemarle	8.2×
CTVACorteva	13.2×
ESIElement Solutions	58.8×
NEUNewmarket	16.9×
RPMRPM International	17.8×
EMNEastman Chemical	13.8×
AXTAAxalta Coating Systems	14.8×
CDECoeur Mining	12.0×
Peer median	15.8×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.