Is the price fair?
What WTS's price assumes
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. trades at 34.6× earnings against 33.5× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, more expensive than its own group.
34.6
Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 33.5 · 1.03× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.75
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.8%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 3.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +11% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 4.58
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 19.1
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 3.68
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E47 names
- 33.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $317M
- Market capitalisation
- $11.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +8.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +11%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $247.67 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $265.25 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $299.70 |
| 52-week range | $260.32 – $392.31 |
| Today | $377.95 |
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 Industrial Machinery
Ranks #17 of 44 by Smart Score