PLABPhotronics, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: cheap against its own history and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for ~4% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 10.5 vs a 15.4 median over 41 quarters (−32% vs median).
Sector median 30.5× across 203 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 Aug 2, 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 PLAB's price assumes
Photronics, Inc. trades at 10.5× earnings against 53.4× for the median Semiconductor Equipment & Materials name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 53.4 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 2.23
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.7%
Free cash flow yield · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 1.2%
- Growth the price implies
- +3.9%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +3.9% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −5.3% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026
- 1.51
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026
- 6.51
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026
- 1.46
- Technology median P/E459 names
- 37.7
- Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median P/E24 names
- 53.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $110M
- Market capitalisation
- $1.94B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −0.31%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −5.3%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $31.71 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $43.40 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $57.88 |
| 52-week range | $20.28 – $54.96 |
| Today | $29.62 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
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