CLBCore Laboratories Inc.
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (14th percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Priced for ~11% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 19.1 vs a 25.6 median over 14 quarters (−25% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CLB's price assumes
Core Laboratories Inc. trades at 19.1× earnings against 24.3× for the median Oil & Gas Equipment & Services name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services median 24.3 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.05
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.3%
Free cash flow yield · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services median 6.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +11%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +11% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −0.84% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / bookas of 2026-Q2
- 2.00
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q2
- 13.3
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q2
- 1.23
- Energy median P/E157 names
- 17.3
- Oil & Gas Equipment & Services median P/E34 names
- 24.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $15M
- Market capitalisation45.9 million shares, counted Jul 24, 2026
- $455M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +0.61%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −0.84%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $11.74 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $13.30 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $14.30 |
| 52-week range | $9.39 – $19.64 |
| Today | $9.91 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
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.
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Ranks #6 of 28 by RyuScore