LKQ price to free cash flow LKQ

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

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 7.1×
10-year median: 13.5×
Against its 10-year history: 0th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 6.3× to 38.9×
Peer median: 24.0×

LKQ's price to free cash flow is 7.1× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 13.5×, lower than on 100% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 6.3× in Mar 2020 to 38.9× in Aug 2018.

The median for 10 industrial distribution stocks of a similar size is 24.0×.

Price to free cash flow over time

median 13.5×

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	7.1×	7.1×	12.3×
2025	10.9×	10.4×	19.4×
2024	12.8×	10.4×	14.9×
2023	11.9×	11.1×	22.3×
2022	20.2×	9.5×	20.8×
2021	11.9×	8.8×	12.9×
2020	10.5×	6.3×	11.9×
2019	12.1×	10.0×	23.2×
2018	20.3×	20.0×	38.9×
2017	33.9×	20.1×	34.1×
2016	27.8×	19.2×	37.0×
2015	22.7×	20.9×	36.8×
2014	30.4×	23.0×	35.4×
2013	35.5×	33.9×	77.0×
2012	41.4×	31.7×	54.4×
2011	50.1×	42.8×	57.1×

Against its peers

Companies in Industrial - Distribution nearest LKQ's size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
LKQLKQ	7.1×
SITESiteOne Landscape Supply	17.4×
MSMMSC Industrial Direct	28.9×
BCCBOISE CASCADE	26.3×
REZIResideo Technologies	n/m
POOLPool	24.0×
CNMCore & Main	12.7×
DXPEDXP Enterprises	20.4×
GICGLOBAL INDUSTRIAL	19.4×
AITApplied Industrial Technologies	25.3×
DSGRDistribution Solutions	43.4×
Peer median	24.0×

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.