Is the price fair?
What PLPC's price assumes
Preformed Line Products Company trades at 58.7× earnings against 39.8× for the median Electrical Equipment & Parts name, more expensive than its own group.
58.7
Trailing P/E · Electrical Equipment & Parts median 39.8 · 1.47× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.91
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.8%
Free cash flow yield · Electrical Equipment & Parts median 2.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +19%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +19% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +30% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / book2026-Q1
- 2.81
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 23.4
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.87
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Electrical Equipment & Parts median P/E21 names
- 39.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $35M
- Market capitalisation
- $1.88B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +0.80%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +30%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 28.1× today against a 11.5× median |
| 52-week range | $158.68 – $481.10 |
| Today | $408.08 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Electrical Equipment & Parts
Ranks #17 of 20 by Smart Score