WWDWoodward, Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +22% a year vs +15% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~22% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 15% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 37.3 vs a 28.3 median over 41 quarters (+32% vs median).
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 WWD's price assumes
Woodward, Inc. trades at 37.3× earnings against 36.3× for the median Aerospace & Defense name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Aerospace & Defense median 36.3 · 1.03× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 6.20
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.5%
Free cash flow yield · Aerospace & Defense median 2.6%
- Growth the price implies
- +22%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +22% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +26% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 10.5
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 6.41
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Aerospace & Defense median P/E60 names
- 36.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $377M
- Market capitalisation
- $26.0B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +15%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +26%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $209.44 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $254.33 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $315.09 |
| 52-week range | $236.88 – $436.44 |
| Today | $335.46 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #9 of 36 by RyuScore