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What MTX's price assumes
Minerals Technologies Inc. trades at 13.7× earnings against 27.9× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, cheaper than its own group.
13.7
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 27.9 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.01
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.8%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +6.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +6.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +32% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.24
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 10.5
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.31
- Basic Materials median P/E159 names
- 22.3
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 27.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $118M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.44B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −0.39%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +32%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $65.01 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $75.48 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $96.69 |
| 52-week range | $54.79 – $82.71 |
| Today | $70.52 |
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 Chemicals
Ranks #16 of 27 by Smart Score