QualityDipStocks / Basic Materials · Major Chemicals
Air Products and Chemicals APD
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s at its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, 7% over its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $295.14price +7%
- Off 52-wk high
- at the high
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.05
2 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $316.43
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$230.76−27.1%
- Market Valueavg paid since Jul 30$295.14−6.7%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$316.43at the price
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$316.43you are here
Fair value estimate
No estimate for APD: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much APD moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 2.0× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.05
- Volatility
- 26% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.02
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.08
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 2 of 5
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.3% ($1.6B paid over 12 months).
Cash returnsShare count down 0.0% over 12 months, below the −0.0% median for the 10 Basic Materials companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$301M over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to −7.3% in FY2025 from 19.8% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only -2.7× over the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityLost $47M over the last 12 months (net income, SEC filings).
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; net debt 10.2× EBITDA (limit 3×).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Air Products and Chemicals in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Basic Materials
All fundamentals
FCF yield -0.4% · ROE -0% · Sales +5%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/aloss over the last 12 months
- Price / FCF
- n/anegative free cash flow
- FCF yield
- −0.4%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 5.51×
- Price / book
- 5.00×
- Market cap
- $69.4Blisted
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $12.6B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +4.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −1.8%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- −$0.21
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- −$47M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 32.1%
- Operating margin
- −4.7%
- Net margin
- −0.4%
- FCF margin
- −2.4%
- Return on equity
- −0%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $980M
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- -2.7×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- −$301M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 2.30%$1.6B paid
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- −0.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $49M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Air Products and Chemicals’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
MV $295.14
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 76 · 5 days +3.0%
The business
FCF $-0.3B · Sales +5%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$0.3B
- Free-cash-flow yield−0.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin−2%
- Gross margin32%
- Operating margin25%
- Return on invested capital8%
- Return on equity0%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+5%
- Net debt / EBITDA10.2×
Next report
Nov 5
- DateThu Nov 5, before the open
- Consensus EPS$3.60
- Year-ago EPS$3.39
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
APD is outside our quality screen
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