Is the price fair?
What HWKN's price assumes
Hawkins, Inc. trades at 30.3× earnings against 28.3× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
30.3
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 28.3 · 1.07× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.91
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.6%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals 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 +44% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 5.90
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 28.0
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 3.13
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 28.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $86M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.37B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +5.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +44%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 38.9× today against a 14.9× median |
| 52-week range | $117.89 – $183.81 |
| Today | $118.42 |
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 Chemicals
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