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What KAI's price assumes
Kadant Inc. trades at 34.1× earnings against 31.6× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, more expensive than its own group.
34.1
Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 31.6 · 1.08× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.09
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.0%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 3.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +8.4%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +8.4% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +21% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 3.39
- Industrials median P/E351 names
- 29.0
- Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E47 names
- 31.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $154M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.80B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +6.4%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +21%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $171.61 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $223.46 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $263.75 |
| 52-week range | $246.93 – $346.93 |
| Today | $298.84 |
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 #22 of 29 by Smart Score