WSTWest Pharmaceutical Services
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +19% a year vs +5% a year delivered and rich vs its sector.
Priced for ~19% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year, priced for acceleration.
In its normal range: P/E 46.9 vs a 45.3 median over 41 quarters (+3% vs median).
Sector median 22.6× across 130 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.
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 WST's price assumes
West Pharmaceutical Services trades at 46.9× earnings against 39.6× for the median Medical Instruments & Supplies name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Medical Instruments & Supplies median 39.6 · 1.18× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 6.96
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.9%
Free cash flow yield · Medical Instruments & Supplies median 3.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +19%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +19% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +3.3% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 7.75
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 33.7
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 6.89
- Healthcare median P/E509 names
- 26.2
- Medical Instruments & Supplies median P/E33 names
- 39.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $437M
- Market capitalisation
- $23.2B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +5.1%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +3.3%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $302.78 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $353.88 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $391.83 |
| 52-week range | $230.78 – $376.78 |
| Today | $366.17 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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