MKSIMKS Inc.

$196.60+43% 1Y

$196.60

$133.9852 weeks$445.01

Is the price fair?

Fair

Neither cheap nor expensive: cheap vs its sector, but priced for +11% a year vs +4% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.

1 good, 2 to watch

What the price assumes~+11% a year

Priced for ~11% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 4% a year, priced for acceleration.

Vs its own P/E rangedearer than 81% of its own historyderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 31.3 vs a 22.3 median over 36 quarters (+40% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)24.6×

Sector median 29.4× across 209 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.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.

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.

P/E (valuation)behind 71% of the market

FCF yieldbehind 69% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What MKSI's price assumes

MKS Inc. trades at 31.3× earnings against 35.5× for the median Scientific & Technical Instruments name, cheaper than its own group.

31.3

Trailing P/E · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 35.5 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 3.06
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 3.4%
Free cash flow yield · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 3.9%
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 +23% a year over the last three.

Details›

Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026: 4.45
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026: 24.6
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026: 3.86
Technology median P/E450 names: 34.1
Scientific & Technical Instruments median P/E17 names: 35.5
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $455M
Market capitalisation67.6 million shares, counted Jul 28, 2026: $13.3B
3-year revenue growth: +4.3%
3-year free cash flow growth: +23%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 36 quarters of its own multiple × $6.28 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$96.48
Its own P/E history, median	$140.24
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$180.42
52-week range	$133.98 – $445.01
Today	$196.60

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.