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The short versionA profitable company with growing sales. Institutions are adding.
Going well
- Sales up 18% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Profitable, keeps 25% of sales as profit
- Sales up 19% last year
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 6.1% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (532 bought, 419 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$120.84+0.1% that day
- Company value
- $18.3B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 9.0x
- You pay about $9 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 2.4x
- Company value is 2.4 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 1.7%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 14%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 18%
- Debt as a share of company value
From CF'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$2.2B+18% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $7.7B, up 20% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 11% 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.36.6%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.66x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.25.4%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.9 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$1.8B
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-20.6% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.38.5%
- Revenue
- $7.1B
- +19.3% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +11.4%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $3.2B
- 0.66x equity
- Current ratio
- 3.37x
- 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
- $2.2B
- +17.6% YoY
- EPS
- $4.73
- vs $2.37
- Op. margin
- 50.5%
- +16.2 pts
- Gross margin
- 51.5%
- +11.6 pts
- Free cash flow
- $607.0M
- Share count
- -5.6%
- 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
- 0.4
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+6.1%Institutions added 6.1% to their holdings. 532 bought, 419 sold.
Shares held by institutions158.4M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-7.8%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.6x · $3.2B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
151MNext reportIn 7 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 5
- Results filedMay 6
- Results filedFeb 18
- Results filedNov 5, 2025
- Results filedAug 6, 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.