HAYWHayward Holdings, Inc.
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (18th percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Priced for ~16% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 15.5 vs a 24.0 median over 17 quarters (−35% vs median).
Sector median 23.3× across 246 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 Mar 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 HAYW's price assumes
Hayward Holdings, Inc. trades at 15.5× earnings against 32.4× for the median Electrical Equipment & Parts name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Electrical Equipment & Parts median 32.4 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 3.06
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 28, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.3%
Free cash flow yield · Electrical Equipment & Parts median 2.3%
- Growth the price implies
- +16%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +16% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +15% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 28, 2026
- 2.18
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 28, 2026
- 17.5
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 28, 2026
- 3.69
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Electrical Equipment & Parts median P/E23 names
- 32.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $81M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.51B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +1.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +15%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $13.23 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $17.48 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $26.52 |
| 52-week range | $11.34 – $17.22 |
| Today | $11.34 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Electrical Equipment & Parts
Ranks #6 of 19 by RyuScore