SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. (SCIA)
Technology · OQB
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 01:04 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. trades at $8.80, which is 75% below the $15.40 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 38 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 17.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About SCI Engineered Materials, Inc.
SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. manufactures and supplies materials for physical vapor deposition thin film applications in the United States. The company offers ceramic powders, metal sputtering targets, and backing plates for use in aerospace, automotive, defense, glass, optical coating, photonic, media storage, flat panel display, semiconductor, computer processor, thin film solar, and photovoltaic industries. Its materials are used to produce nano layers of metals and oxides for advanced material systems; and to apply decorative coatings for end uses, such as sink faucets and glasses, as well as to produce various electronic, photonic, and semiconductor products. The company serves domestic and multi-national corporations, universities, and research institutions. The company was formerly known as Superconductive Components, Inc. and changed its name to SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. in August 2007. SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
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SCIA passes 5 of our 30 screens today
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SCIA peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Semiconductor Equipment & Materials), then in the same sector.
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Common questions
Is SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. (SCIA) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $15.40, SCIA at $8.80 is 75% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
What is SCIA's P/E ratio?
SCIA trades at 17.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its SCIA data?
Fundamentals for SCIA come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on OQB; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 01:04 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.