LKQLKQ Corporation
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in, cheap against its own history, and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for a decline (~−2% a year). The price bakes in little to no growth.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 12.3 vs a 14.5 median over 41 quarters (−15% vs median).
Sector median 16.2× across 156 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.
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 LKQ's price assumes
LKQ Corporation trades at 12.3× earnings against 17.6× for the median Auto Parts name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Auto Parts median 17.6 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.50
Price / sales · today's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.2%
Free cash flow yield · Auto Parts median 6.1%
- Growth the price implies
- −2.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −2.5% 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, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 1.04
- EV / EBITtoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 6.54
- EV / salestoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 0.48
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
- 17.8
- Auto Parts median P/E36 names
- 17.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $625M
- Market capitalisation
- $6.82B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −13%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $22.56 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $25.77 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $31.33 |
| 52-week range | $21.84 – $34.06 |
| Today | $21.84 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.