BCPCBalchem Corporation
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (22nd percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 34.8 vs a 38.9 median over 41 quarters (−11% vs median).
Sector median 17.6× across 53 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.
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 BCPC's price assumes
Balchem Corporation trades at 34.8× earnings against 31.1× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 31.1 · 1.12× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 5.20
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Price / book
- 4.33
Price / book · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- EV / sales
- 5.28
EV / sales
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 4.33
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 25.9
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 5.28
- Basic Materials median P/E202 names
- 20.6
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E43 names
- 31.1
- Market capitalisation31.9 million shares, counted Jul 23, 2026
- $5.64B
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $180.60 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $197.83 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $218.03 |
| 52-week range | $146.46 – $183.26 |
| Today | $177.04 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.