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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable
- Pays a 2.1% dividend yield
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 1.8% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (191 bought, 151 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$46.58-0.8% that day
- Company value
- $2.8B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 37.9x
- You pay about $38 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.35x
- Company value is 0.35 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 2.1%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 111%
- A big cushion: cash is a large part of what the company is worth
- Debt vs value
- 121%
- Owes more than the whole company is worth
From AAP's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jul '26$2.0B+0.2% vs a year earlier
Oct '22Tap a barJul '26
Last 12 months: $8.0B, down 3.8% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales shrank about 3.2% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.2.0%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.1.55x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.0.5%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.9 of 10 years
- MissFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.-$298.0M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-0.2% in 3 years
- PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.43.4%
- Revenue
- $8.6B
- -5.4% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- -3.2%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $3.4B
- 1.55x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.75x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jul 18, 2026- Revenue
- $2.0B
- -0.5% YoY
- EPS
- $0.90
- vs $0.25
- Op. margin
- 5.1%
- +4.0 pts
- Gross margin
- 46.2%
- +2.7 pts
- Free cash flow
- $195.0M
- Share count
- +0.8%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
46/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 1.1
- vs normal
- 0.9x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+1.8%Institutions added 1.8% to their holdings. 191 bought, 151 sold.
Shares held by institutions75.7M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
+0.5%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
814 monthsDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
1.5x · $3.4B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
60MNext reportIn 2 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 20
- Results filedMay 21
- Results filedFeb 13
- Results filedOct 30, 2025
- Results filedAug 14, 2025
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.