WSWorthington Steel, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Growth expectations in line with delivery. That is the only one of 3 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Priced for ~7% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.
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 WS's price assumes
Worthington Steel, Inc. trades at 225× earnings against 26.2× for the median Steel name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Steel median 26.2 · 8.60× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.53
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to May 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.3%
Free cash flow yield · Steel median 2.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +7.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +7.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −33% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to May 31, 2026
- 1.73
- EV / EBIToperating margin −0.04%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to May 31, 2026
- 0.58
- Basic Materials median P/E203 names
- 20.7
- Steel median P/E13 names
- 26.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $80M
- Market capitalisation
- $1.84B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.5%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −33%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.