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The short versionA company still losing money with steady sales.
Going well
- Pays a 1.6% dividend yield
Watch out for
- Losing money
- Debt above equity: 1.82x
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 0.3% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (427 bought, 380 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$108.85+0.1% that day
- Company value
- $39.7B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 222.1x
- You pay about $222 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 2.6x
- Company value is 2.6 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 1.6%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 9%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 18%
- Debt as a share of company value
From EL'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 (worked out from yearly totals)$3.6B+6.3% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $15.0B, up 5.0% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 0.0% 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.-27.6%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.1.82x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.-7.9%
- 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.$670.0M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-1.3% in 3 years
- PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.74.0%
- Revenue
- $14.3B
- -8.2% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- 0.0%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $7.3B
- 1.82x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.36x
- 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
- $3.6B
- +6.3% YoY
- EPS
- -$0.32
- vs -$1.52
- Op. margin
- -1.1%
- +10.3 pts
- Gross margin
- 75.5%
- +3.5 pts
- Free cash flow
- $425.0M
Some values are worked out from year-to-date totals in the annual report.
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
- 3.2
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+0.3%Institutions added 0.3% to their holdings. 427 bought, 380 sold.
Shares held by institutions229.9M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
+0.4%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
1.8x · $6.8B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
365MNext reportIn 2 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 19
- Results filedMay 1
- Results filedFeb 5
- Results filedOct 30, 2025
- Results filedAug 20, 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.