PLPCPreformed Line Products Company

$396.98+97% 1Y

$396.98

$185.9352 weeks$481.10

Is the price fair?

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A demanding price: priced for +20% a year vs +2% a year delivered, at the top of its own P/E range, and rich vs its sector.

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What the price assumes~+20% a year

Priced for ~20% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.

Vs its own P/E rangedearest in 41 quartersderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 44.7 vs a 12.3 median over 41 quarters (+263% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)29.2×

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 Jun 30, 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.

P/E (valuation)behind 84% of the market

FCF yieldbehind 88% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What PLPC's price assumes

Preformed Line Products Company trades at 44.7× earnings against 32.4× for the median Electrical Equipment & Parts name, more expensive than its own group.

44.7

Trailing P/E · Electrical Equipment & Parts median 32.4 · 1.38× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 2.67
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 1.7%
Free cash flow yield · Electrical Equipment & Parts median 2.3%
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 +0.20% a year over the last three.