NDSNNordson Corporation
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~7% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 33.2 vs a 26.0 median over 41 quarters (+28% vs median).
Sector median 23.3× across 246 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 Jul 31, 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.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What NDSN's price assumes
Nordson Corporation trades at 33.2× earnings against 30.1× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 30.1 · 1.10× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 5.53
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.4%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +7.4%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +7.4% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +5.6% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- 5.04
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- 22.6
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jul 31, 2026
- 6.08
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E55 names
- 30.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $724M
- Market capitalisation
- $16.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +5.6%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $230.24 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $257.06 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $293.16 |
| 52-week range | $219.45 – $334.61 |
| Today | $328.09 |
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 Industrial Machinery
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