Is the price fair?
What JHX's price assumes
James Hardie Industries plc trades at 159× earnings against 19.3× for the median Building Materials name, more expensive than its own group.
159
Trailing P/E · Building Materials median 19.3 · 8.24× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.63
Price / sales · as of 2026-FY
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.4%
Free cash flow yield · Building Materials median 2.6%
- Growth the price implies
- +22%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +22% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +133% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-FY
- 1.61
- EV / EBIT2026-FY
- 5.59
- EV / sales2026-FY
- 0.89
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Building Materials median P/E12 names
- 19.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $206M
- Market capitalisation
- $14.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +8.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +133%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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Ranks #10 of 11 by Smart Score