Foster L B price to free cash flow FSTR

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

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 7.9×
10-year median: 10.2×
Against its 10-year history: 31st; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 2.5× to 188×
Peer median: 19.9×

Foster L B's price to free cash flow is 7.9× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 10.2×, lower than on 69% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 2.5× in Oct 2016 to 188× in Aug 2019.

The median for 9 industrial distribution stocks of a similar size is 19.9×.

Price to free cash flow over time

median 10.2×

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	7.9×	7.7×	13.1×
2025	10.7×	10.0×	31.4×
2024	27.7×	7.9×	159×
2023	13.8×	11.7×	13.8×
2022	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2021	10.0×	6.3×	18.2×
2020	7.8×	4.0×	21.8×
2019	21.3×	5.9×	188×
2018	5.4×	5.3×	18.5×
2017	10.2×	3.1×	13.6×
2016	3.2×	1.9×	9.8×
2015	10.4×	7.8×	48.2×
2014	11.3×	9.4×	121×
2013	28.5×	12.4×	89.0×
2012	12.4×	9.5×	16.5×

Against its peers

Companies in Industrial - Distribution nearest Foster L B's size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
FSTRFoster L B	7.9×
AENTAlliance Entertainment	n/m
HDSNHudson Technologies	n/m
WLFCWillis Lease Finance	3.3×
GOLDGold.com	0.9×
DSGRDistribution Solutions	43.4×
GICGLOBAL INDUSTRIAL	19.4×
DXPEDXP Enterprises	20.4×
REZIResideo Technologies	n/m
BCCBOISE CASCADE	26.3×
Peer median	19.9×

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.

More on Foster L B

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