US Equities Analysis

APD — Air Products

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 23.59%
Profit Margins 16.91%
Return on Equity 12.35%
Return on Assets 3.6%
Free Float 0.22B
Dividend Yield 2.59%
Short Int % Utilisation 1.43%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 8.8%
Free Cash Flow -3.52B
EBITDA 21.03 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 81.56B
EV/Revenue 6.54
EV/EBITDA 21.03

Revenue growth of 8.8% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 13.21%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 26.70%
1-Year Price Return* 9.21%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $308.97
52-Week Range $229.11 – $314.87
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $300.86
Market capitalisation $67.00B
Enterprise value proxy $83.55B
Revenue $12.04B
EBIT $-226.70M
EBITDA $1.34B
Reported free cash flow $-3.77B
Unlevered free cash flow $-6.49B
FCF yield -5.62%
EV / EBITDA proxy 62.47x
Net debt / EBITDA 12.37x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.75
Cost of equity 8.85%
Pre-tax cost of debt 1.28%
WACC 7.16%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 0/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 1/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:26:46.220594 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-09-30 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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