Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

APD ·Basic Materials, Chemicals, United States
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AI Valuation

AI-generated fair value estimate for this company.

AI Fair Value $126.36
Market Price $277.57
Overvalued By 119.7%

Method: 10-year normalized FCF DCF: operating cash flow starting at $4,571M TTM growing 6%/yr; capex normalizing from ~$4.9B in yr1 down to ~$3.2B steady-state by yr5 (then growing 3%/yr) as megaprojects (NEOM blue hydrogen, Louisiana Clean Energy Complex) complete; 8.5% discount rate; 2.5% terminal growth; $17,291M net debt; 222.69M shares outstanding.

Reasoning: Air Products is mid-way through an unusually heavy multi-year capex cycle funding large take-or-pay gasification/hydrogen megaprojects, producing negative current FCF; normalizing capex toward historical maintenance+growth levels once projects complete yields an intrinsic value below the current market price, reflecting real execution and capex-overrun risk in the megaproject backlog.