Air Products reported fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted EPS of $3.61, within management's guidance range of $3.55 to $3.65. For fiscal 2027, Air Products expects full-year adjusted EPS of $14.15 to $14.50, which would represent a 5% to 8% increase year over year.
Air Products is poised for rapid growth due to business opportunities that drive its ambitious capital-allocation plan.
After Air Liquide’s 2016 acquisition of Airgas and the Praxair-Linde merger in 2018, Air Products is a distant third in terms of market share among industrial gas majors and may struggle to regain share.
Metric | APD | LIN | AI |
|---|---|---|---|
Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 92.93 | 29.63 | 31.95 |
Price/Book Value | 4.87 | 6.08 | 4.57 |
Price/Sales | 5.36 | 6.70 | 4.48 |
Price/Cash Flow | 14.55 | 21.56 | 18.14 |
Metric | APD | LIN | AI |
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Quick Ratio | 0.78 | 0.64 | 0.58 |
Current Ratio | 1.08 | 0.86 | 0.87 |
Interest Coverage | 0.63 | 20.07 | 43.49 |
Metric | APD | LIN | AI |
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Return on Assets (Normalized) | — | 9.41% | 7.16% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | — | 21.14% | 14.60% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | — | 12.47% | 9.26% |
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