Is the price fair?
What CW's price assumes
Curtiss-Wright Corporation trades at 45.4× earnings against 41.8× for the median Aerospace & Defense name, more expensive than its own group.
45.4
Trailing P/E · Aerospace & Defense median 41.8 · 1.09× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 7.00
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.1%
Free cash flow yield · Aerospace & Defense median 2.5%
- Growth the price implies
- +17%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +17% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +27% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 9.59
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 38.9
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 7.17
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Aerospace & Defense median P/E50 names
- 41.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $591M
- Market capitalisation
- $28.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +11%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +27%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 44.5× today against a 21.6× median |
| 52-week range | $471.69 – $783.82 |
| Today | $619.41 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #18 of 48 by Smart Score