Stock · PFV.DE · Industrials
Germany · Small Cap · Revenue 12 mo. €855.6M
Price as of 11/06/2026
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG develops, manufactures, sells, and services vacuum pumps, systems, blowers, compressors, and exhaust gas purification systems.
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG develops, manufactures, sells, and services vacuum pumps, systems, blowers, compressors, and exhaust gas purification systems. The company offers vacuum pumps, such as turbopumps, diaphragm, rotary vane, scroll, screw, powerful roots, and multi-stage roots pumps; leak detectors with tracer gases, air, and leak detection solutions; and vacuum gauges, including digiline, activeline, centerline, moduline, handheld measurement instruments, and customer specific gauges. It also provides angel, ball butterfly, diaphragms, HV gate and pendulums, inline, UHV gate, venting, and gas control and dosing vacuum valves; and rotary vane, multi-stage roots, scroll, turbo and root pumping stations. In addition, the company offers vacuum components, chambers, feedthroughs, and manipulators; residual gas analysis systems, contamination management systems, multi-stage vacuum process systems; and mass spectrometers. Further, it provides accessories, such as adapter, assembly, cables and connectors, calibration, caps and clamps, chambers, connections, control units, and conversion and upgrade; and cooling, doors, flanges and ports, heating, monitoring, noise reduction, operating fluid, protection, sniffing and spraying, software, tools, transport accessories, and vibration reduction. Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Asslar, Germany.
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Summary
46.5 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
Price to operating cash flow 28.9×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 18.7× to 31.3×, median 21.7×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 11.23% | 13.10% | Rank 41 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 11.87% | 19.33% | Rank 27 |
| EBIT margin | 8.42% | 11.28% | Rank 32 |
| FCF margin | −0.50% | 8.50% | Rank 12 |
| Gross margin | 36.93% | 28.98% | Rank 69 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | −3.90% | 5.15% | Rank 11 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −11.18% | 8.01% | Rank 13 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 13.88% | 12.89% | Rank 55 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 5.39% | 4.02% | Rank 62 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.79% | 4.42% | Rank 39 |
| FCF yield | −0.27% | 3.98% | Rank 12 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 2.02 | 2.08 | Rank 52 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 23.97 | 19.47 | Rank 34 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −5.62% | −0.01% | Rank 40 |
| Share price, 6 months | −3.09% | −1.43% | Rank 46 |
| Share price, 3 months | 3.31% | 0.53% | Rank 60 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −6.26% | −16.36% | Rank 83 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.94% | 1.39% | Rank 54 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.00% | −0.44% | Rank 33 |
| Dividend streak in years | 0 | 5 | Rank 7 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 2.11% | 0.27% | Rank 69 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 55.51% | 39.65% | Rank 79 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 0.99 | 1.38 | Rank 58 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.43 | 0.61 | Rank 65 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 7.54% | 32.95% | Rank 100 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, €M | EBIT margin | FCF, €M | Shares | Net debt, €M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 474.2 | 14.3% | 45.6 | 9.87M | −109.8 |
| 2017 | 587.0 | 12.2% | 43.7 | 9.87M | −37.1 |
| 2018 | 659.7 | 14.4% | 28.9 | 9.87M | −48.1 |
| 2019 | 632.9 | 10.3% | 30.5 | 9.87M | −38.4 |
| 2020 | 618.7 | 7.3% | 28.8 | 9.87M | −49.8 |
| 2021 | 771.4 | 12.1% | 50.0 | 9.87M | −81.2 |
| 2022 | 916.7 | 13.0% | −33.9 | 9.87M | 8.2 |
| 2023 | 956.3 | 11.4% | 13.1 | 9.87M | −87.0 |
| 2024 | 884.6 | 6.5% | −1.7 | 9.87M | 57.6 |
| 2025 | 850.1 | 8.4% | −4.3 | 9.87M | 114.6 |
0 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
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Selected fundamental metrics for Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 26.4 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 3.0 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 11.2% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 55.5% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.43 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 4.5% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| PFV.DE | Pfeiffer Vacuum Technologythis page | |
| DEZ.DE | Deutz AG | Low0.0 |
| KSB3.DE | KSB SE & Co. KGaA | Low3.6 |
| DUE.DE | Dürr Aktiengesellschaft | Low3.6 |
| JUN3.DE | Jungheinrich AG Vz. | locked |
| 2GB.DE | 2G Energy AG | locked |
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