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Swedish supplier of fasteners and small mechanical components ("C-parts"), sourcing and managing supply chains for industrial customers.
Swedish supplier of fasteners and small mechanical components ("C-parts"), sourcing and managing supply chains for industrial customers.
Buys fasteners and other small parts from many manufacturers, mostly in Asia, checks quality and delivers them to the customer's assembly line, charging a price per part that covers sourcing, quality control and stock-holding. Such parts are a small share of a customer's cost but can stop a production line, which supports pricing.
In one line: A fastener/C-parts supply-chain specialist like a smaller Fastenal.
Moat: narrow (scale, distribution, switching costs). Embedded vendor-managed-inventory relationships and global sourcing scale create switching costs for customers.
Headquarters: Varberg, Sweden · Founded: 1977 · Employees: 1,853
Size Bufab (BUFAB.ST) is a Sweden Industrials company (Wholesale Distributors) with a market value of $2.55B, the 66th largest of 221 Sweden companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at SEK 131.00 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 16.3%, against +3.7% for the median peer and +8.2% for the Sweden market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 8.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.5%); the operating margin is 13.3% (peer median 5.1%).
Valuation It trades at 29.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.9× (2nd most expensive of 19).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 19% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +11%, so the hurdle is +8 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 1.3 points above its cost of capital (10.1% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 11 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | SEK 8.65B | SEK 8.07B | SEK 8.04B | SEK 8.68B | SEK 8.43B |
| Revenue growth | — | 0% | -7% | +3% | — |
| Gross profit | SEK 2.90B | SEK 2.36B | SEK 2.18B | SEK 2.29B | SEK 2.22B |
| EBITDA | SEK 1.48B | SEK 1.25B | SEK 1.11B | SEK 1.30B | SEK 1.24B |
| Net income | SEK 777M | SEK 626M | SEK 551M | SEK 574M | SEK 609M |
| Free cash flow | SEK 1.04B | SEK 849M | SEK 1.04B | SEK 1.37B | -SEK 107M |
| Capital expenditure | SEK 71.0M | SEK 90.0M | SEK 79.0M | SEK 86.0M | SEK 66.0M |
| Total debt | SEK 3.83B | SEK 3.58B | SEK 3.53B | SEK 3.58B | SEK 4.05B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bufab BUFAB.ST | $2.55B | +16% | +8% | 13% | 29.2× | 18.7% |
| Fastenal FAST | $60.8B | +20% | +14% | 21% | 38.3× | 14.2% |
| Bossard BOSN.SW | $2.42B | +55% | +7% | 11% | 20.1× | 5.9% |
| Distribution Solutions DSGR | $1.62B | +27% | +6% | 4% | 40.9× | 15.5% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | BUFAB.ST | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -4.5% | -5.4% | 9th highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +16.3% | +3.7% | 6th highest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -10.6% | -22.0% | 4th highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +8.1% | +7.5% | 10th highest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 13.3% | 5.1% | 5th highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 29.2× | 14.9× | 2nd most expensive of 19 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 18.7% | 4.6% | 2nd most demanding of 20 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +11.2% | +8.7% | 7th highest of 20 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +7.6 pp | -2.9 pp | 2nd most demanding of 20 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +1.3 pp | +0.8 pp | 9th highest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 19.2× | 9.0× | 2nd most expensive of 14 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.3× | 1.3× | 7th most indebted of 17 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bufab BUFAB.ST | Sweden | $2.55B | +16% | +8% | 13% | 29.2× | 18.7% | +11.2% |
| Workman 7564.T | Japan | $2.57B | -31% | +21% | 19% | 17.1× | 4.6% | +8.7% |
| Xinhua Winshare Publishing & Media 601811.SS | China | $2.52B | +26% | -4% | 7% | 15.2× | -11.4% | +5.4% |
| Boise Cascade BCC | United States | $2.44B | -1% | +1% | 3% | 24.1× | 7.7% | +3.2% |
| DNOW DNOW | United States | $2.40B | +2% | +70% | -3% | 23.6× | 9.8% | +11.7% |
| IWATANI 8088.T | Japan | $2.73B | -4% | +5% | 5% | 7.6× | 4.3% | +10.1% |
| OEM International OEM-B.ST | Sweden | $2.34B | +11% | +11% | 15% | 29.9× | 14.6% | +10.1% |
| Marco Polo 001386.SZ | China | $2.80B | -15% | -12% | 21% | n/a | -7.2% | -5.5% |
| Jiangsu Azure 002245.SZ | China | $2.82B | -21% | +27% | 12% | 14.6× | 11.8% | +13.8% |
| Hanwa 8078.T | Japan | $2.29B | +7% | +6% | 2% | 7.8× | -4.2% | +8.8% |
| Inchcape INCH.L | United Kingdom | $2.87B | -21% | +7% | 6% | 7.5× | -6.0% | +5.9% |
| Nagase & 8012.T | Japan | $2.96B | -9% | +8% | 5% | 10.9× | 3.5% | +3.2% |
| DXP Enterprises DXPE | United States | $2.18B | -10% | +11% | 9% | 20.7× | 6.6% | +14.9% |
| Russel Metals RUS.TO | Canada | $2.98B | +36% | +18% | 5% | 14.4× | 8.7% | +11.5% |
| Shanghai Xinhua Media 600825.SS | China | $2.03B | +118% | +1% | -1% | n/a | 44.5% | +2.3% |
| Macnica 3132.T | Japan | $3.23B | +8% | +35% | 4% | 11.8× | n/a | n/a |
| Currys CURY.L | United Kingdom | $1.97B | +16% | +6% | 2% | 10.4× | 4.3% | -2.2% |
| BIC Cameras 3048.T | Japan | $1.94B | +10% | +7% | 4% | 15.2× | -8.2% | +4.5% |
| Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure DBI.AX | Australia | $1.92B | +6% | +11% | 29% | 26.2× | 7.8% | +104.8% |
| ARE 5857.T | Japan | $1.89B | +1% | +38% | 7% | 9.3× | 2.0% | +29.4% |
| Travis Perkins TPK.L | United Kingdom | $1.86B | +28% | 0% | 3% | 23.2× | 8.5% | +4.3% |