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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 3.2% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 2.2% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (196 bought, 153 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$98.68+0.4% that day
- Company value
- $4.4B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 29.7x
- You pay about $30 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 2.0x
- Company value is 2.0 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 2%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 3%
- Debt as a share of company value
From FELE'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, Mar '26$500.4M+9.9% vs a year earlier
Jun '23Tap a barMar '26
Last 12 months: $2.2B, up 8.0% 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.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.11.4%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.10x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.6.9%
- 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.$193.5M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-3.2% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.35.5%
- Revenue
- $2.1B
- +5.4% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +11.3%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $135.2M
- 0.10x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.79x
- 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 Mar 31, 2026- Revenue
- $500.4M
- +9.9% YoY
- EPS
- $0.77
- vs $0.67
- Op. margin
- 9.6%
- -0.1 pts
- Gross margin
- 35.0%
- -1.0 pts
- Free cash flow
- -$50.4M
- Share count
- -3.5%
- 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
- 1.0
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+2.2%Institutions added 2.2% to their holdings. 196 bought, 153 sold. 2 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions39.9M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-1.5%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.1x · $134.4M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
44MWhy low risk- 1 offering filing in 6 months (may sell new shares)
Next reportIn 0 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 28
- Results filedApr 28
- Results filedFeb 17
- Results filedOct 28, 2025
- Results filedJul 29, 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.