StockDecksFree cash flow to debt
How much of its debt a company could repay from one year’s free cash flow.
How it’s calculated
Free cash flow (cash from operations minus capital spending) ÷ total debt.
How to read it
0.5× means a year’s free cash flow equals half the company’s debt. Negative means the business used more cash than it generated. It is a cash-based check on debt, which is harder to flatter than accounting profit.
One year’s free cash flow can swing with large one-off investments, so a single low reading is not on its own a sign of trouble.
How StockDecks scores it
Higher scores better. 0× or below counts as weak, 0.15× as typical and 0.5× as strong. Not calculated for companies with no debt.
It is one of the measures behind the Financial Health rating. Every measure, benchmark and weighting is set out on the methodology page.
Real examples
Across the 99 companies StockDecks has a page for with this figure available, as of 24 October 2026, the middle value is 0.22×.
Lowest
Lucid -0.92× · Persimmon -0.75× · Wise -0.52×
Highest
Palantir Technologies 10.21× · Shopify 8.92× · 3i Group Ord 2.69×
Figures from Yahoo Finance, captured 24 October 2026. Being high or low on one measure says little on its own — each company page shows how this measure sits alongside the others.