Is the price fair?
What MKSI's price assumes
MKS Inc. trades at 43.2× earnings against 34.2× for the median Scientific & Technical Instruments name, more expensive than its own group.
43.2
Trailing P/E · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 34.2 · 1.27× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.01
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.7%
Free cash flow yield · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 4.1%
- Growth the price implies
- +20%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +20% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +23% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 5.81
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 32.7
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 4.55
- Technology median P/E376 names
- 37.0
- Scientific & Technical Instruments median P/E16 names
- 34.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $455M
- Market capitalisation
- $27.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.3%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +23%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 44.9× today against a 20.4× median |
| 52-week range | $97.65 – $420.56 |
| Today | $271.53 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Scientific & Technical Instruments
Ranks #12 of 16 by Smart Score