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The short versionA high-quality, profitable business with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Buying back shares: share count down 7.3% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 2.8% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (329 bought, 363 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$60.79+0.9% that day
- Company value
- $18.5B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 36.4x
- You pay about $36 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 4.4x
- Company value is 4.4 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 2%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 17%
- Debt as a share of company value
From FTV'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, Apr '26$1.1B+7.7% vs a year earlier
Jun '23Tap a barApr '26
Last 12 months: $4.2B, up 3.6% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales shrank about 2.1% 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.6.4%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.50x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.12.8%
- 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.$978.1M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-7.3% in 3 years
- PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.63.5%
- Revenue
- $4.2B
- +1.9% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- -2.1%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $3.2B
- 0.50x equity
- Current ratio
- 0.71x
- 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 Apr 3, 2026- Revenue
- $1.1B
- +7.7% YoY
- EPS
- $0.44
- vs $0.50
- Op. margin
- 17.9%
- +1.3 pts
- Gross margin
- 63.2%
- -1.0 pts
- Free cash flow
- $208.2M
- Share count
- -9.2%
- 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
- 0
- Normal week
- 1.0
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+2.8%Institutions added 2.8% to their holdings. 329 bought, 363 sold.
Shares held by institutions329.8M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-4.8%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.6x · $3.5B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
305MNext reportIn 0 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 29
- Results filedApr 30
- Results filedFeb 4
- Results filedOct 29, 2025
- Results filedJul 30, 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.