CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

CF Basic Materials Agricultural Inputs

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $7.1 billion, up 19.3% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 17.6%, EPS grew 100.0%, free cash flow grew 88.8% and total debt rose 8.17%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years.

120.85 1.08 +0.90%
Market cap
$18.1B
P/E
8.9×
Fwd P/E
6.2×
Dividend yield
1.74%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
2.80
Beneish M
−2.67
Dividend safety
82/100

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) Free cash flow margin

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CF Industries Holdings, Inc.'s free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 24.7%, down 0.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (25.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −42.9% (fiscal 2016) to 36.1% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 55% of that period. That is above the Agricultural Inputs industry median of 1.46% and above 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 25.5% (4.06)
FY2024 29.6% (4.49)
FY2023 34.1% 3.65
FY2022 30.4% (5.68)
FY2021 36.1% 13.69
FY2020 22.4% (3.10)
FY2019 25.5% 0.65
FY2018 24.9% (3.66)
FY2017 28.5% 71.40
FY2016 −42.9% (13.86)

Against its own ten years

Low −42.9% High 36.1%
Ten-year median 25.5%
Current reading's percentile 55

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
CF CF Industries Holdings, Inc. 24.7%
UAN CVR Partners, LP compare 21.4%
IPI Intrepid Potash, Inc compare 11.3%
SMG The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company compare 7.56%
NTR Nutrien Ltd. compare 7.40%
ICL ICL Group Ltd. compare 4.45%
CTVA Corteva, Inc. compare 3.70%
FMC FMC Corporation compare 2.61%
MOS The Mosaic Company compare −6.85%
Agricultural Inputs industry median 1.46%
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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