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The short versionA profitable company with growing sales.
Going well
- Sales up 12% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Profitable
- Sales up 10% last year
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 4.9% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (182 bought, 188 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$103.07-1.1% that day
- Company value
- $4.0B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 16.8x
- You pay about $17 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.4x
- Company value is 1.4 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 0.2%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 9%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 32%
- Debt as a share of company value
From BDC'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$750.2M+12% vs a year earlier
Oct '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $2.9B, up 9.4% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 9.2% 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.18.6%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.1.02x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.8.7%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.8 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$218.7M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-9.7% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.38.0%
- Revenue
- $2.7B
- +10.3% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +9.2%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $1.3B
- 1.02x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.93x
- 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 28, 2026- Revenue
- $750.2M
- +11.6% YoY
- EPS
- $1.74
- vs $1.53
- Op. margin
- 13.2%
- +1.4 pts
- Gross margin
- 39.1%
- +0.6 pts
- Free cash flow
- $88.6M
- Share count
- -1.8%
- 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
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 0.6
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+4.9%Institutions added 4.9% to their holdings. 182 bought, 188 sold.
Shares held by institutions41.7M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-2.6%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.9x · $1.2B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
39MNext reportIn 1 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 30
- Results filedApr 30
- Results filedFeb 12
- Results filedOct 30, 2025
- Results filedJul 31, 2025
Flags and big holders
Offerings 6 months, flags 12 months, holders 90 days
No offerings, red flags or new big holders. Clean record.
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.