ETNEaton Corporation
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +15% a year vs +11% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~15% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 11% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 43.7 vs a 25.6 median over 41 quarters (+71% vs median).
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 ETN's price assumes
Eaton Corporation trades at 43.7× earnings against 30.1× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 30.1 · 1.45× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 5.45
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.4%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +15%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +15% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +13% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 8.09
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 6.12
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E55 names
- 30.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.93B
- Market capitalisation
- $163.8B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +11%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +13%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $136.93 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $251.44 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $297.57 |
| 52-week range | $313.97 – $459.97 |
| Today | $429.63 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
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