WSO-BWatsco, Inc.

$321.70-24% 1Y

$321.70

$309.7052 weeks$453.37

Is the price fair?

Fair

Neither cheap nor expensive: growth expectations in line with delivery and in its normal P/E range.

1 neutral, 2 without data

What the price assumes~+5% a yearderived · Mar 31, 2026

Priced for ~5% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.

Vs its own P/E rangemid-range for this companyderived

In its normal range: P/E 26.5 vs a 22.6 median over 40 quarters (+17% vs median).

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

Watsco, Inc. trades at 26.5× earnings against 25.9× for the median Industrial Distribution name, more expensive than its own group.

26.5

Trailing P/E · Industrial Distribution median 25.9 · 1.02× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 1.91
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
Free cash flow yield: 5.3%
Free cash flow yield · Industrial Distribution median 4.1%
Growth the price implies: +4.9%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +4.9% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +5.5% a year over the last three.

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What the market has paid for these earnings: 40 quarters of its own multiple × $12.14 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$252.58
Its own P/E history, median	$274.15
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$352.20
52-week range	$309.70 – $453.37
Today	$321.70

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.

Ranks #4 of 17 by RyuScore