Is the price fair?
What WDFC's price assumes
WD-40 Company trades at 32.9× earnings against 28.3× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
32.9
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 28.3 · 1.16× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.00
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.6%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +14%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +14% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +21% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q2
- 9.67
- EV / EBIT2026-Q2
- 23.1
- EV / sales2026-Q2
- 4.03
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 28.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $79M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.06B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +8.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +21%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $217.25 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $253.64 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $290.07 |
| 52-week range | $185.66 – $264.90 |
| Today | $216.26 |
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 Chemicals
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