QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Metal Fabrications
RBC Bearings RBC
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 29% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $269.91−42%
- Market Value
- forming
- Off 52-wk high
- −29%
- Risk vs market
- Above marketbeta 1.17
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $462.21
- Fair value est.base case$269.91−41.6%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$406.45−12.1%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$462.21you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$648.89+40.4%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 8.4% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 6.4%; bull = 8.5% and 10.4% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, RBC’s free cash flow would need to grow about 18% a year for five years; our estimate uses 8%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much RBC 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.
Swings more than the market, and its own price swings are 2.3× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 1.17
- Volatility
- 29% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.52
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.49
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
GrowthSales grew 17% to $2.0B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
Balance sheetPaid down debt: $876M at FY2026, 27% less than at FY2024.
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 31% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 18% to $9.09 in FY2026.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $269.91, 42% below the price.
ValuationP/E of 41.4× vs a 27.5× median for the 130 Industrials companies we cover.
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 24.3×, above the 16.6× median for the 96 Industrials companies we cover.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 2.7%, below the 3.5% median for the 144 Industrials companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on RBC Bearings 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 Metal Fabrications
All fundamentals
P/E 41.4 · FCF yield 2.7% · ROE 11%
Valuation
- P/E
- 41.4×Industrials median 27.5×
- Price / FCF
- 36.7×
- FCF yield
- 2.7%
- EV / EBITDA
- 24.3×
- Price / sales
- 7.24×
- Price / book
- 4.12×
- Market cap
- $14.7Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $15.3B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $2.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +17.4%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +8.4%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $11.18
- EPS growth, last FY
- +18.1%
- Net income, 12 months
- $354M
- Net income growth
- +37%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 45.5%
- Operating margin
- 24.4%
- Net margin
- 17.5%
- FCF margin
- 19.7%
- Return on equity
- 11%
- Return on invested capital
- 9%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $89M
- Total debt
- $710M
- Net cash
- −$621M
- Debt / equity
- 0.20×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $399M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +31%
- Dividend yield
- n/ano dividend payments tagged
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +0.3%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $35M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 26, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 26, 2026. From RBC Bearings’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
DCF $269.91 · FCF value $242.88
Assumes 8.4% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 8.4% a year FY23–FY26), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $12.59 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 26, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 30, 2026. Net debt $621M, not deducted.
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 36 · 5 days −2.1%
The business
FCF $0.3B · Sales +15%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.3B
- Free-cash-flow yield2.1%
- Free-cash-flow margin16%
- Gross margin46%
- Operating margin25%
- Return on invested capital9%
- Return on equity10%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+15%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.1×
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.
RBC is outside our quality screen
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