As of today (2025-05-11), Balchem's share price is $164.55.
Balchem's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $4.60. Hence, Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 35.76.
The historical rank and industry rank for Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:
BCPC'
s Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 21 Med: 33.59 Max: 53.37
Current: 35.74
During the past 13 years, Balchem's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 53.37. The lowest was 21.00. And the median was 33.59.
BCPC's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is ranked worse than 67.61% of 880
companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 20.325
vs BCPC: 35.74
During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Balchem was 1.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 5.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 7.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 7.30% per year.
During the past 13 years, Balchem's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 380.20% per year. The lowest was -71.10% per year. And the median was 13.20% per year.
Balchem Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data
The historical data trend for Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Balchem's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.
Balchem's Share Price of today is $164.55. Balchem's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4.60.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
Free Cash Flow is considered more important than earnings by value investors. The reason is because, in principle, only the net cash that can be taken from the business belongs to shareholders. This Free Cash Flow can be used to grow the business, reduce debt or return to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks.
In a DCF Calculation Free Cash Flow is used to determine the intrinsic value of companies.
Be Aware
In real business, Free Cash Flow can be affected by the change in accounts receivable, accounts payable, management's decision on expansion, etc. Therefore, investors should look at the Free Cash Flow over the longer term. Long-term average of Free Cash Flow is a more reliable indicator for real free cash flow.
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Balchem Corp is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for various industries. The company's reportable segments are; Human Nutrition and Health, which generates maximum revenue, and provides human-grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications; Animal Nutrition and Health, which provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the essential nutrient choline chloride; and the Specialty Products segment includes re-packaging and distributing several performance gases and chemicals. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from the United States and the rest from foreign countries.
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