RPMRPM International Inc.
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap against its own history.
Priced for ~6% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 3% a year.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 18.1 vs a 23.6 median over 41 quarters (−23% vs median).
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 RPM's price assumes
RPM International Inc. trades at 18.1× earnings against 29.4× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 29.4 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.80
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.9%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 4.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +5.8%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +5.8% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +2.1% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 31, 2026
- 4.11
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 31, 2026
- 2.06
- Basic Materials median P/E203 names
- 20.7
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E43 names
- 29.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $706M
- Market capitalisation
- $14.3B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +2.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $112.92 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $127.68 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $139.34 |
| 52-week range | $92.75 – $119.56 |
| Today | $97.70 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.