QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Paints/Coatings
RPM International RPM
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 15% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading above our fair value estimate, 3% over its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $87.87−14%
- Market Value
- $99.15price +3%
- Off 52-wk high
- −15%
- Risk vs market
- Market-likebeta 0.92
4 bullish · 4 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $102.44
- Fair value est.base case$87.87−14.2%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$93.23−9.0%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 6$99.15−3.2%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$102.44you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$120.17+17.3%
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 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, RPM’s free cash flow would need to grow about 6% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much RPM 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.
Moves about in line with the market, and its own price swings are 2.3× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.92
- Volatility
- 30% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.40
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.22
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 5.4% (price / FCF 18.5×): $706M of free cash in the last 12 months.
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 37% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 21% over the last 12 months.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.1% ($275M paid over 12 months, 40% of earnings).
Top bearish points 4 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $87.87, 14% below the price.
GrowthSales grew only 2.7% a year from FY2023 to FY2026.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 3.4% in the last fiscal year, below the 4.8% median for the 158 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 6.0% over the last 12 months, below the 7.0% median for the 175 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on RPM International 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 Consumer Discretionary
All fundamentals
P/E 19.0 · FCF yield 5.4% · ROE 21%
Valuation
- P/E
- 19.0×Consumer Discretionary median 20.9×
- Price / FCF
- 18.5×
- FCF yield
- 5.4%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 1.64×
- Price / book
- 3.75×
- Market cap
- $13.0Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $14.7B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $8.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +6.0%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +2.7%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $5.41
- EPS growth, last FY
- −3.4%
- Net income, 12 months
- $688M
- Net income growth
- +0%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 41.2%
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 8.6%
- FCF margin
- 8.9%
- Return on equity
- 21%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $313M
- Total debt
- $2.0B
- Net cash
- −$1.7B
- Debt / equity
- 0.57×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $706M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +37%
- Dividend yield
- 2.11%$275M paid
- Payout ratio
- 40%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $82M0.6% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −0.6%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $37M
Trailing 12 months to Aug 31, 2026; balance sheet at Aug 31, 2026. From RPM International’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 $87.87 · MV $99.15 · FCF value $108.35
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 2.7% a year FY23–FY26; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $5.55 a share (trailing 12 months to Aug 31, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 6, 2026. Net debt $95M, 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 58 · 5 days +3.7%
The business
FCF $0.6B · Sales +5%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.6B
- Free-cash-flow yield4.2%
- Free-cash-flow margin7%
- Gross margin41%
- Operating margin16%
- Return on invested capital17%
- Return on equity21%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+5%
- Net debt / EBITDA2.0×
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.
RPM is outside our quality screen
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