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Consumer Discretionary · Wholesale-Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods · CIK 887733 · FYE 0927

$39.00

+0.73 (+1.91%)

USD · as of 2026-07-28 · marketstack

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Multiples & cost of capital

$39.00 · 2026-07-28 · marketstack

Size & multiples

Market Cap

$2.49B

Enterprise Value

$3.03B

P/E (TTM)

15.29×

PEG (trailing)

3.46×

P/S

0.79×

P/FCF

8.81×

EV/EBITDA

8.83×

EV/EBIT

11.68×

EV/Sales

0.96×

EV/FCF

10.72×

FCF Yield

11.35%

Buyback Yield

3.40%

Owner Earnings (TTM)

$209.2M

Owner Earnings Yield

8.41%

Shareholder Yield

—

Cost of capital & EVAmethodology →

Beta (5y monthly)

0.58

Risk-free (assumed)

4.00%

Equity risk premium (assumed)

5.00%

Cost of Equity

6.91%

After-tax Cost of Debt

3.66%

Synthetic credit rating

BBB

Cost of Debt · embedded (pre-tax)

4.84%

Cost of Debt · marginal (synthetic)

5.11%

WACC

5.86%

ROIC

9.73%

EVA Spread (ROIC−WACC)

3.87%

EVA

$73.3M

FCF runs above owner earnings — under-maintenance or a working-capital release is flattering current cash.

Synthetic rating = ICR-based credit-quality read (Damodaran), not an agency rating.

Flows TTM (last 4 quarters); latest annual for: EPS (Diluted), Interest Expense · EPS TTM $2.55 · revenue TTM $3.16B · FCF TTM $282.4M

Synthetic-rating coverage uses the latest fiscal year's EBIT over the SAME year's interest expense (no trailing-twelve-month interest could be formed from the quarterly tagging) — a matched-window ratio, never TTM earnings over annual interest.
No four consecutive quarters could be summed for EPS (Diluted), Interest Expense; these figures use the latest fiscal year, not a trailing twelve months.

Output of a disclosed model whose assumptions may be wrong — research information, not investment advice. See the Disclaimer.

Cheap vs Consumer Discretionary on P/E, EV/EBITDA

P/E 28th · EV/EBITDA 35th percentile in the Consumer Discretionary pool — placement read per multiple; the API emits no single blended figure, so none is shown.

vs Consumer Discretionary· 632 names

Compared against all 632 Consumer Discretionary names we cover — one sector-wide pool, so the median skews toward smaller (often unprofitable) companies. Try the Size band for a cap-matched read.

Metric

This (FY)

Peer median

IQR (25–75)

%ile

P/E

15.3x

21.6x

14.2x–34.1x

28 ↓cheap

EV/EBITDA

8.4x

10.8x

7.3x–16.1x

35 ↓cheap

FCF Yield

11.7%

4.3%

-0.3%–8.8%

83 ↑strong

Net Margin

5.2%

2.6%

-2.9%–7.3%

66 ↑strong

Operating Margin

8.0%

4.4%

-1.2%–10.0%

67 ↑strong

ROE

10.4%

8.4%

-4.9%–18.1%

58 ↑strong

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Multiples & cost of capital

$39.00 · 2026-07-28 · marketstack

Size & multiples

Market Cap

$2.49B

Enterprise Value

$3.03B

P/E (TTM)

15.29×

PEG (trailing)

3.46×

P/S

0.79×

P/FCF

8.81×

EV/EBITDA

8.83×

EV/EBIT

11.68×

EV/Sales

0.96×

EV/FCF

10.72×

FCF Yield

11.35%

Buyback Yield

3.40%

Owner Earnings (TTM)

$209.2M

Owner Earnings Yield

8.41%

Shareholder Yield

—

Cost of capital & EVAmethodology →

Beta (5y monthly)

0.58

Risk-free (assumed)

4.00%

Equity risk premium (assumed)

5.00%

Cost of Equity

6.91%

After-tax Cost of Debt

3.66%

Synthetic credit rating

BBB

Cost of Debt · embedded (pre-tax)

4.84%

Cost of Debt · marginal (synthetic)

5.11%

WACC

5.86%

ROIC

9.73%

EVA Spread (ROIC−WACC)

3.87%

EVA

$73.3M

FCF runs above owner earnings — under-maintenance or a working-capital release is flattering current cash.

Synthetic rating = ICR-based credit-quality read (Damodaran), not an agency rating.

Flows TTM (last 4 quarters); latest annual for: EPS (Diluted), Interest Expense · EPS TTM $2.55 · revenue TTM $3.16B · FCF TTM $282.4M

Synthetic-rating coverage uses the latest fiscal year's EBIT over the SAME year's interest expense (no trailing-twelve-month interest could be formed from the quarterly tagging) — a matched-window ratio, never TTM earnings over annual interest.
No four consecutive quarters could be summed for EPS (Diluted), Interest Expense; these figures use the latest fiscal year, not a trailing twelve months.

Output of a disclosed model whose assumptions may be wrong — research information, not investment advice. See the Disclaimer.

Cheap vs Consumer Discretionary on P/E, EV/EBITDA

P/E 28th · EV/EBITDA 35th percentile in the Consumer Discretionary pool — placement read per multiple; the API emits no single blended figure, so none is shown.

vs Consumer Discretionary· 632 names

Compared against all 632 Consumer Discretionary names we cover — one sector-wide pool, so the median skews toward smaller (often unprofitable) companies. Try the Size band for a cap-matched read.

Metric

This (FY)

Peer median

IQR (25–75)

%ile

P/E

15.3x

21.6x

14.2x–34.1x

28 ↓cheap

EV/EBITDA

8.4x

10.8x

7.3x–16.1x

35 ↓cheap

FCF Yield

11.7%

4.3%

-0.3%–8.8%

83 ↑strong

Net Margin

5.2%

2.6%

-2.9%–7.3%

66 ↑strong

Operating Margin

8.0%

4.4%

-1.2%–10.0%

67 ↑strong

ROE

10.4%

8.4%

-4.9%–18.1%

58 ↑strong

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Multiples & cost of capital

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Multiples & cost of capital

vs Consumer Discretionary· 632 names

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