QUADQuad/Graphics, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in, but at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for a decline (~−2% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 10% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 16.9 vs a 11.6 median over 15 quarters (+45% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What QUAD's price assumes
Quad/Graphics, Inc. trades at 16.9× earnings against 25.8× for the median Specialty Business Services name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Business Services median 25.8 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.0%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Business Services median 7.8%
- Growth the price implies
- −2.2%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −2.2% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −4.8% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Specialty Business Services median P/E28 names
- 25.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $44M
- Market capitalisation
- $489M
- 3-year revenue growth
- −9.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −4.8%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $5.50 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $6.52 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $7.78 |
| 52-week range | $5.04 – $10.85 |
| Today | $9.48 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Business Services
Ranks #7 of 22 by RyuScore