PRLBProto Labs, Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +13% a year vs +5% a year delivered, at the top of its own P/E range, and rich vs its sector.
Priced for ~13% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 75.0 vs a 50.6 median over 37 quarters (+48% 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.
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 PRLB's price assumes
Proto Labs, Inc. trades at 75.0× earnings against 22.0× for the median Metal Fabrication name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Metal Fabrication median 22.0 · 3.41× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.62
Price / sales · today's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.9%
Free cash flow yield · Metal Fabrication median 3.3%
- 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.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 2.87
- EV / EBITtoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 71.9
- EV / salestoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 3.38
- Industrials median P/E438 names
- 26.5
- Metal Fabrication median P/E11 names
- 22.0
- 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 | $50.17 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $63.27 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $74.03 |
| 52-week range | $46.81 – $98.70 |
| Today | $93.72 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.