BDCBelden Inc.
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (24th percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Priced for ~7% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 2% a year, priced for acceleration.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 17.8 vs a 20.9 median over 34 quarters (−15% vs median).
Sector median 30.5× across 203 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 28, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What BDC's price assumes
Belden Inc. trades at 17.8× earnings against 39.8× for the median Communication Equipment name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Communication Equipment median 39.8 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.65
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 28, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.5%
Free cash flow yield · Communication Equipment median 3.0%
- Growth the price implies
- +7.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +7.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −3.7% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 28, 2026
- 3.41
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 28, 2026
- 16.4
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 28, 2026
- 1.96
- Technology median P/E459 names
- 37.7
- Communication Equipment median P/E27 names
- 39.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $212M
- Market capitalisation
- $4.72B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.5%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −3.7%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $111.45 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $128.43 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $169.08 |
| 52-week range | $99.52 – $150.78 |
| Today | $109.21 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Communication Equipment
Ranks #1 of 20 by RyuScore