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COMMERCIAL METALS price to free cash flow CMC

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2012.

Today, Oct 23, 2026
14.4×
10-year median
12.1×
Against its 10-year history
57th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
2.9× to 212×
Peer median
36.6×

COMMERCIAL METALS' price to free cash flow is 14.4× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 12.1×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 2.9× in Oct 2016 to 212× in Aug 2022.

The median for 7 steel stocks of a similar size is 36.6×.

Price to free cash flow over time

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

YearEnd of yearLowHigh
2026 so far14.4×14.4×31.1×
202525.3×9.7×25.3×
20249.9×7.6×12.7×
20237.9×6.4×23.7×
202222.6×19.3×212×
202198.8×4.5×98.8×
20204.1×3.4×6.8×
2019n/m a value too high to mean anything
201840.7×40.7×50.1×
201729.8×6.2×29.9×
20165.9×2.8×8.1×
20158.2×8.2×54.3×
201454.5×11.5×58.1×
201340.9×22.0×135×
201220.4×14.3×21.2×

Against its peers

Companies in Steel nearest COMMERCIAL METALS' size, closest first, today.

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
CMCCOMMERCIAL METALS14.4×
CRSCarpenter Technology38.9×
CSTMConstellium14.4×
WORWorthington Enterprises16.0×
RSReliance Steel & Aluminum39.3×
STLDSteel Dynamics36.2×
MTUSMetallusn/m
NUENucor37.0×
Peer median36.6×

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 . Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.