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Xylem price to free cash flow XYL

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

Today, Oct 23, 2026
26.4×
10-year median
34.5×
Against its 10-year history
21st
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
17.6× to 132×
Peer median
25.1×

Xylem's price to free cash flow is 26.4× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 34.5×, lower than on 79% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 17.6× in Mar 2020 to 132× in Aug 2022.

The median for 10 industrial machinery stocks of a similar size is 25.1×.

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 far26.4×24.8×38.5×
202536.5×27.0×41.4×
202434.5×34.4×59.7×
202354.4×39.5×93.7×
202288.6×31.3×132×
202142.1×26.6×46.0×
202028.0×17.6×39.1×
201934.8×25.4×44.6×
201824.8×22.5×30.3×
201727.3×23.0×30.3×
201625.5×19.4×27.4×
201521.6×18.4×22.9×
201423.5×21.8×36.7×
201330.8×16.8×30.8×
201216.4×15.0×16.8×

Against its peers

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

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
XYLXylem26.4×
DOVDover22.8×
SYMSymbotic32.2×
IRIngersoll Rand23.4×
OTISOtis Worldwide16.7×
NDSNNordson24.5×
ITTITT33.4×
IEXIDEX26.3×
RBCRBC Bearings INC38.8×
LECOLincoln Electric25.7×
CARRCarrier Global24.0×
Peer median25.1×

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 Xylem

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