Valuation

APDAir Products & Chemicals

StockNYSEUnited StatesMaterialsEU retail investors: available

+0.4% today · +24.0% over a year

1/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 29% of the instruments we score

Stability: among the best of its peers; priced higher than most peers. Dividend yield 2.31%.

Air Products & Chemicals (APD) valuation against sector peers: P/B 5.0, free-cash-flow yield −0.4%, P/S 5.5.

Ratios vs sector

Medians of Materials companies in the same region (stocks and REITs).

Lower P/E, P/B, P/S and EV/EBIT mean cheaper; higher yields, returns and margins mean more for the price. Negative multiples (losses) are left out of the medians.
MetricAPDSector medianvs median
P/E—22.9 · n=64—
P/B5.02.1 · n=82142% above
P/S5.51.2 · n=82349% above
EV/EBIT—19.8 · n=50—
Free-cash-flow yield−0.4%3.7% · n=80112% below
Dividend yield2.31%1.33% · n=8974% above
Return on equity−0.3%10.3% · n=84103% below
Return on invested capital−4.4%6.4% · n=65170% below
Gross margin32.1%23.9% · n=8334% above
Net debt / EBITDA−0.902.41 · n=60137% below

Value factor: 2 of 100 within the peer group. Full score breakdown →

Sector peers

The largest companies of the same sector and region.

NEMNewmont13.53.5—8.1%0.9%9/10
FCXFreeport-McMoRan25.34.114.3—0.9%5/10
SHWSherwin-Williams32.121.6—3.6%1.1%8/10
ECLEcolab41.28.233.92.1%1.0%7/10
CRHCRH plc18.12.615.03.9%1.2%5/10
NUENucor16.12.5—4.6%0.9%9/10
WCNWaste Connections42.26.132.42.6%0.8%6/10
MLMMartin Marietta Materials16.32.138.32.3%0.6%1/10
VMCVulcan Materials33.44.425.42.1%0.7%5/10
STLDSteel Dynamics Inc17.13.414.33.3%0.9%8/10

Fiscal-year history

From annual SEC filings; each bar is a fiscal year, labelled by the year it ended.

Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR · ratios computed by AI-Stock Invest from public filings and end-of-day prices · latest period 30 Jun 2026 · filed 30 Jul 2026