Is the price fair?
What PRLB's price assumes
Proto Labs, Inc. trades at 63.0× earnings against 35.9× for the median Metal Fabrication name, more expensive than its own group.
63.0
Trailing P/E · Metal Fabrication median 35.9 · 1.76× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.54
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.9%
Free cash flow yield · Metal Fabrication median 3.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +12% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 2.03
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Metal Fabrication median P/E9 names
- 35.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $57M
- Market capitalisation
- $1.93B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +12%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $52.82 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $60.55 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $73.75 |
| 52-week range | $46.24 – $92.24 |
| Today | $78.74 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.