RPMRPM International Inc.
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap against its own history.
Priced for ~4% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 3% a year.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 18.3 vs a 23.6 median over 41 quarters (−23% vs median).
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.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What RPM's price assumes
RPM International Inc. trades at 18.3× earnings against 31.1× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 31.1 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.58
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.6%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 4.8%
- Growth the price implies
- +4.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +4.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +2.1% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 31, 2026
- 3.62
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 31, 2026
- 1.84
- Basic Materials median P/E202 names
- 20.6
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E43 names
- 31.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $706M
- Market capitalisation127.5 million shares, counted Sep 30, 2026
- $12.6B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +2.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $112.92 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $127.68 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $139.34 |
| 52-week range | $92.75 – $119.56 |
| Today | $98.72 |
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.