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Low riskNext report: Around Dec 9 (est.)
The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable
- Sales up 11% last year
- Brings in more cash than it spends
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 1.3% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (82 bought, 96 sold)
- Held by Stanley Druckenmiller (Duquesne)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$20.99+1.9% that day
- Company value
- $1.0B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 21.4x
- You pay about $21 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.2x
- Company value is 1.2 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 15%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 1%
- Debt as a share of company value
From DAKT'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, Aug '26$234.6M+7.1% vs a year earlier
Oct '23Tap a barAug '26
Last 12 months: $854.3M, up 14% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 12% 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.16.0%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.04x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.5.4%
- 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.$34.3M
- MissShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+8.5% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.27.3%
- Revenue
- $838.7M
- +10.9% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +11.7%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $11.1M
- 0.04x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.22x
- 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 Aug 1, 2026- Revenue
- $234.6M
- +7.1% YoY
- EPS
- $0.40
- vs $0.33
- Op. margin
- 10.6%
- 0.0 pts
- Gross margin
- 30.5%
- +0.8 pts
- Free cash flow
- $27.3M
- Share count
- -1.7%
- 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
0/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 1.9
- vs normal
- 0.5x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+1.3%Institutions added 1.3% to their holdings. 82 bought, 96 sold. 2 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions36.6M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
+1.7%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.0x · $10.5M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
48MNext reportAround Dec 9 (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedSep 2
- Results filedJun 24
- Results filedMar 4
- Results filedDec 10, 2025
- Results filedSep 10, 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.
Latest filings
Straight from SEC EDGAR
Stock awardHoward I AtkinsCFO and CTO, Director
9,626 shares
- +23% of holdings
- Now owns 51,239 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
Stock awardMark F BowserDirector
6,594 shares
- +187% of holdings
- Now owns 10,129 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade
Stock awardJohn Patrick FrielDirector
6,594 shares
- +8% of holdings
- Now owns 84,223 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade
Stock awardJose-marie GriffithsDirector
6,594 shares
- +11% of holdings
- Now owns 67,624 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade
Stock awardNeil GlatDirector
6,594 shares
- +187% of holdings
- Now owns 10,129 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade
Stock awardLance Dean BultenaDirector
6,594 shares
- +14% of holdings
- Now owns 53,634 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade