STERIS STE Price / earnings
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Where this comes from
Calculated from STERIS’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
The official record: STERIS’s 10-K, filed May 29, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is STERIS's price / earnings?
- STERIS (STE) reported price / earnings of 27.7× in Q1 2026.
- How has STERIS's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
- STERIS's price / earnings decreased by 23.5% year-over-year, from 36.2× to 27.7×.
- What is the long-term trend for STERIS's price / earnings?
- Over 3 years (2022 to 2026), STERIS's price / earnings has grown at a -26.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 340.4× to 134.7×.
- What does price / earnings mean?
- How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
- How do you interpret price / earnings?
- Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
- How does price / earnings compare across companies?
- Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.