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What AIT's price assumes
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. trades at 32.4× earnings against 27.2× for the median Industrial Distribution name, more expensive than its own group.
32.4
Trailing P/E · Industrial Distribution median 27.2 · 1.19× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.06
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.5%
Free cash flow yield · Industrial Distribution median 3.5%
- Growth the price implies
- +10%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +10% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +32% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 5.37
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 19.3
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.10
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Industrial Distribution median P/E17 names
- 27.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $439M
- Market capitalisation
- $12.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +3.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +32%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $168.20 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $186.65 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $249.23 |
| 52-week range | $239.80 – $361.94 |
| Today | $342.28 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Industrial Distribution
Ranks #8 of 17 by Smart Score