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Low riskNext report: Not enough history
The short versionA high-quality, profitable business with growing sales. Institutions are adding.
Going well
- Sales up 19% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Sales up 17% last year
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 3.1% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (244 bought, 198 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$114.19+0.9% that day
- Company value
- $7.0B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 24.6x
- You pay about $25 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 2.8x
- Company value is 2.8 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 0.5%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 1%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 3%
- Debt as a share of company value
From FSS'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$670.2M+19% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $2.4B, up 24% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 14% 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.19.2%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.15x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.11.3%
- 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.$227.1M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+0.5% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.28.9%
- Revenue
- $2.2B
- +17.1% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +14.0%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $211.6M
- 0.15x equity
- Current ratio
- 3.02x
- 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
- $670.2M
- +18.7% YoY
- EPS
- $1.40
- vs $1.16
- Op. margin
- 17.6%
- +0.3 pts
- Gross margin
- 30.4%
- +0.4 pts
- Free cash flow
- $101.0M
- Share count
- +0.3%
- 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
- 0.5
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+3.1%Institutions added 3.1% to their holdings. 244 bought, 198 sold.
Shares held by institutions62.2M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
0.0%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.3x · $448.2M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
61MNext reportNot enough history
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.