Cabot price to free cash flow CBT

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 13.6×
10-year median: 14.2×
Against its 10-year history: 47th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 4.4× to 56.2×
Peer median: 26.7×

Cabot's price to free cash flow is 13.6× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 14.2×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 4.4× in Mar 2020 to 56.2× in Sep 2018.

The median for 10 chemicals stocks of a similar size is 26.7×.

Price to free cash flow over time

median 14.2×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	13.6×	8.8×	16.1×
2025	9.0×	8.5×	13.4×
2024	11.1×	11.1×	15.8×
2023	13.2×	12.0×	33.0×
2022	51.0×	51.0×	55.9×
2021	51.5×	14.0×	51.5×
2020	14.4×	4.4×	19.0×
2019	19.3×	19.3×	54.7×
2018	37.0×	21.0×	56.2×
2017	19.8×	11.2×	24.6×
2016	11.3×	6.3×	12.0×
2015	7.1×	6.9×	19.5×
2014	19.5×	10.6×	21.4×
2013	21.3×	17.8×	74.6×
2012	18.5×	17.9×	18.8×
2011	22.1×	15.3×	25.0×

Against its peers

Companies in Chemicals nearest Cabot's size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
CBTCabot	13.6×
AVNTAvient	19.7×
CSWCSW Industrials	33.4×
WDFCWD 40	35.9×
FULFuller H B	26.7×
BCPCBalchem	n/m
IOSPInnospec	34.7×
HXLHexcel	23.6×
NGVTIngevity	15.5×
ROGRogers	27.0×
EMNEastman Chemical	13.8×
Peer median	26.7×

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.