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Nordson price to free cash flow NDSN

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

Today, Oct 23, 2026
24.5×
10-year median
24.9×
Against its 10-year history
44th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
15.8× to 32.1×
Peer median
32.2×

Nordson's price to free cash flow is 24.5× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 24.9×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 15.8× in Dec 2018 to 32.1× in Feb 2020.

The median for 10 industrial machinery stocks of a similar size is 32.2×.

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 far24.5×20.4×25.7×
202520.6×20.3×27.4×
202424.5×21.3×26.3×
202324.8×19.7×30.8×
202229.4×24.0×30.1×
202129.3×23.0×29.9×
202025.8×16.4×32.1×
201929.5×16.3×31.3×
201816.4×15.8×31.4×
201730.4×22.0×30.4×
201623.8×15.9×27.4×
201518.3×15.8×23.9×
201420.2×19.4×23.7×
201321.7×16.4×21.7×
201216.3×12.1×18.7×
201111.9×11.4×18.8×

Against its peers

Companies in Industrial - Machinery nearest Nordson's size, closest first, today.

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
NDSNNordson24.5×
ITTITT33.4×
IEXIDEX26.3×
RBCRBC Bearings INC38.8×
LECOLincoln Electric25.7×
SYMSymbotic32.2×
LIILennox Internationaln/m
XYLXylem26.4×
WTSWatts Water Technologies34.3×
DOVDover22.8×
BWXTBWX Technologies36.8×
Peer median32.2×

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.