PLABPhotronics, Inc.

Technology

$28.12+20% 1Y

$28.12

$20.2852 weeks$54.96

Is the price fair?

Excellent

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in, cheap against its own history, and cheap vs its sector.

3 good

What the price assumes~+2% a year

Priced for ~2% a year FCF growth. Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 0% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 90% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 10.0 vs a 15.4 median over 41 quarters (−35% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)5.1×

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 Aug 2, 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)top 10% of the market

FCF yieldbetter than 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 PLAB's price assumes

Photronics, Inc. trades at 9.97× earnings against 39.2× for the median Semiconductor Equipment & Materials name, cheaper than its own group.

9.97

Trailing P/E · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 39.2 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 1.91
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 6.7%
Free cash flow yield · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 2.0%
Growth the price implies: +1.8%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +1.8% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −5.3% a year over the last three.

Details›

Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026: 1.30
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026: 5.08
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 2, 2026: 1.14
Technology median P/E450 names: 34.1
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median P/E24 names: 39.2
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $110M
Market capitalisation59.0 million shares, counted Sep 3, 2026: $1.66B
3-year revenue growth: −0.31%
3-year free cash flow growth: −5.3%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 41 quarters of its own multiple × $2.82 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$31.71
Its own P/E history, median	$43.40
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$57.88
52-week range	$20.28 – $54.96
Today	$28.12

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