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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Buying back shares: share count down 33% in 3 years
- High return on equity: 27%
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 0.6% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (213 bought, 257 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$160.17-0.5% that day
- Company value
- $5.3B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 7.4x
- You pay about $7 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.19x
- Company value is 0.19 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 1%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 70%
- Debt as a share of company value
From AN'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, Jun '26$6.9B-0.6% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $27.4B, down 0.1% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 6.3% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- PassReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.27.1%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.1.58x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.2.3%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- MissFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.-$197.5M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-32.8% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.17.9%
- Revenue
- $27.6B
- +3.2% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +6.3%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $3.7B
- 1.58x equity
- Current ratio
- 0.84x
- 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 Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $6.9B
- -0.6% YoY
- EPS
- $5.39
- vs $2.26
- Op. margin
- 4.6%
- +1.5 pts
- Gross margin
- 17.8%
- -0.5 pts
- Free cash flow
- -$140.7M
- Share count
- -11.7%
- 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
59/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 0.7
- vs normal
- 1.4x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+0.6%Institutions added 0.6% to their holdings. 213 bought, 257 sold.
Shares held by institutions24.2M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-9.0%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
1.6x · $3.7B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
33MNext reportDue any dayEstimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 31
- Results filedMay 1
- Results filedFeb 6
- Results filedOct 23, 2025
- Results filedJul 25, 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.