Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

APD Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $12.0 billion, down 0.52% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 4.58%, EPS fell 302.2%, free cash flow grew 180.1% and total debt rose 2.23%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years.

299.59 2.99 +1.01%
Market cap
$66.1B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
21.5×
Dividend yield
2.41%
F-score
2/9
Altman Z
2.41
Beneish M
−2.87
Dividend safety
20/100

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD) Free cash flow margin

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Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.'s free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was −0.86%, up 28.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (−29.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −29.2% (fiscal 2025) to 18.7% (fiscal 2017) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is below the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 3.76% and below the Basic Materials sector median of 0.00%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 −29.2% (18.73)
FY2024 −10.5% 0.56
FY2023 −11.1% (13.36)
FY2022 2.29% (6.51)
FY2021 8.80% (0.64)
FY2020 9.44% (1.67)
FY2019 11.1% (0.40)
FY2018 11.5% (7.19)
FY2017 18.7% 0.10
FY2016 18.6% 6.59

Against its own ten years

Low −29.2% High 18.7%
Ten-year median 9.44%
Current reading's percentile 9

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
LIN Linde PLC compare 14.0%
SHW The Sherwin-Williams Company compare 13.2%
ECL Ecolab Inc. compare 11.2%
DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare 10.1%
RPM RPM International Inc. compare 9.50%
PPG PPG Industries, Inc. compare 8.57%
LYB LyondellBasell Industries N.V. compare 5.48%
IFF International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. compare 5.15%
APD Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. −0.86%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 3.76%
Basic Materials sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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