IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances

$84.56+36% 1Y

$84.56

$58.5352 weeks$88.08

Is the price fair?

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A demanding price: priced for +14% a year vs −6% a year delivered, at the top of its own P/E range, and rich vs its sector.

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What the price assumes~+14% a year

Priced for ~14% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.

Vs its own P/E rangedearer than 86% of its own historyderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 74.2 vs a 30.4 median over 28 quarters (+144% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)32.9×

Sector median 18.9× across 51 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 30, 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.

P/E (valuation)bottom 8% of the market

FCF yieldbehind 76% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What IFF's price assumes

International Flavors & Fragrances trades at 74.2× earnings against 29.4× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.

74.2

Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 29.4 · 2.52× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 1.96
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 2.8%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 4.7%
Growth the price implies: +14%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +14% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +27% a year over the last three.