AB SKF Valuation

Is SKFBs undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

4/6

Valuation Score 4/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of SKFBs when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: SKFBs (SEK218.2) is trading below our estimate of fair value (SEK537.97)

Significantly Below Fair Value: SKFBs is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for SKFBs?

Key metric: As SKFBs is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for SKFBs. This is calculated by dividing SKFBs's market cap by their current earnings.
What is SKFBs's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio16.8x
EarningsSEK 5.59b
Market CapSEK 94.03b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does SKFBs's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for SKFBs vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average23.2x
WEIR Weir Group
25.7x18.5%UK£5.7b
SPX Spirax Group
26.2x8.5%UK£5.0b
IMI IMI
18.4x12.2%UK£4.7b
ROR Rotork
22.4x10.0%UK£2.7b
SKFBS AB SKF
13.5x6.8%SEK 90.2b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: SKFBs is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (16.8x) compared to the peer average (23.2x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does SKFBs's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Machinery Industry?

2 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No. of Companies26PE01020304050+
2 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: SKFBs is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (16.8x) compared to the European Machinery industry average (17.5x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is SKFBs's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

SKFBs PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio16.8x
Fair PE Ration/a

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate SKFBs's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst SKFBs forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Currentn/a
SEK 203.60
0%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Dec ’25SEK 208.40
SEK 203.60
-2.3%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Nov ’25SEK 210.25
SEK 203.60
-3.2%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Oct ’25SEK 202.70
SEK 203.60
+0.4%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Sep ’25n/a
SEK 203.60
0%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Aug ’25SEK 195.70
SEK 203.60
+4.0%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Jul ’25SEK 212.20
SEK 203.60
-4.1%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Jun ’25SEK 227.70
SEK 203.60
-10.6%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
May ’25SEK 224.20
SEK 203.60
-9.2%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Apr ’25SEK 227.20
SEK 203.60
-10.4%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Mar ’25SEK 225.55
SEK 203.60
-9.7%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Feb ’25n/a
SEK 203.60
0%
16.3%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00n/a20
Jan ’25n/a
SEK 197.70
0%
17.0%SEK 280.00SEK 150.00n/a20
Dec ’24SEK 198.23
SEK 195.45
-1.4%
17.0%SEK 280.00SEK 150.00SEK 208.4020
Nov ’24n/a
SEK 196.10
0%
17.2%SEK 280.00SEK 150.00SEK 210.2520
Oct ’24SEK 176.90
SEK 197.19
+11.5%
17.9%SEK 280.00SEK 151.00SEK 202.7021
Sep ’24SEK 177.78
SEK 196.00
+10.3%
18.9%SEK 280.00SEK 135.00n/a22
Aug ’24SEK 199.75
SEK 195.95
-1.9%
18.6%SEK 280.00SEK 135.00SEK 195.7022
Jul ’24SEK 186.20
SEK 195.09
+4.8%
17.2%SEK 270.00SEK 132.00SEK 212.2022
Jun ’24SEK 171.13
SEK 192.90
+12.7%
16.8%SEK 260.00SEK 132.00SEK 227.7020
May ’24SEK 185.85
SEK 190.33
+2.4%
15.7%SEK 250.00SEK 132.00SEK 224.2021
Apr ’24SEK 202.95
SEK 190.43
-6.2%
16.1%SEK 240.00SEK 120.00SEK 227.2021
Mar ’24SEK 200.20
SEK 189.38
-5.4%
16.7%SEK 240.00SEK 120.00SEK 225.5521
Feb ’24SEK 188.70
SEK 172.29
-8.7%
15.2%SEK 210.00SEK 120.00n/a21
Jan ’24SEK 161.05
SEK 169.05
+5.0%
16.2%SEK 210.00SEK 115.00n/a22
Dec ’23SEK 173.10
SEK 167.81
-3.1%
16.1%SEK 210.00SEK 115.00SEK 198.2321

Analyst Forecast: Target price is less than 20% higher than the current share price.


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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/12/26 00:21
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/13 00:00
Earnings2024/09/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

AB SKF (publ) is covered by 55 analysts. 18 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Olof CederholmABG Sundal Collier
Timothy LeeBarclays
Allan SmylieBarclays