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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales. Institutions are adding.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Buying back shares: share count down 7.7% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 3.5% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (300 bought, 233 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$169.29+1.9% that day
- Company value
- $6.1B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 18.1x
- You pay about $18 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.6x
- Company value is 1.6 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 0.6%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 9%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 19%
- Debt as a share of company value
From ENS'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, Jul '26$935.6M+4.8% vs a year earlier
Oct '23Tap a barJul '26
Last 12 months: $3.8B, up 3.7% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 4.7% 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.15.7%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.61x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.7.8%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$467.5M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-7.7% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.29.3%
- Revenue
- $3.8B
- +3.7% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +4.7%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $1.1B
- 0.61x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.75x
- 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 Jul 5, 2026- Revenue
- $935.6M
- +4.8% YoY
- EPS
- $3.09
- vs $1.46
- Op. margin
- 16.2%
- +6.5 pts
- Gross margin
- 33.5%
- +5.1 pts
- Free cash flow
- $217.7M
- Share count
- -4.2%
- 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
- 2
- Normal week
- 3.7
- vs normal
- 0.5x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+3.5%Institutions added 3.5% to their holdings. 300 bought, 233 sold.
Shares held by institutions36.9M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-4.2%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.5x · $1.0B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
36MNext reportIn 7 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 12
- Results filedMay 20
- Results filedFeb 4
- Results filedNov 5, 2025
- Results filedAug 6, 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.