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The short versionA high-quality, profitable business with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Sales growth speeding up
- Brings in more cash than it spends
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 1.1% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (328 bought, 375 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$66.08-1.3% that day
- Company value
- $10.6B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 21.3x
- You pay about $21 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 4.6x
- Company value is 4.6 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 1.7%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 1%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 0%
- Debt as a share of company value
From GGG'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, Sep '26$586.4M+7.9% vs a year earlier
Dec '23Tap a barSep '26
Last 12 months: $2.3B, up 5.4% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 6.3% 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.19.9%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.00x equity
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.23.3%
- 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.$637.9M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-2.1% in 3 years
- PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.52.5%
- Revenue
- $2.2B
- +5.8% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +6.3%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $1.6M
- 0.00x equity
- Current ratio
- 3.15x
- 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 Sep 25, 2026- Revenue
- $586.4M
- +7.9% YoY
- EPS
- $0.75
- vs $0.82
- Op. margin
- 25.3%
- -5.0 pts
- Gross margin
- 50.5%
- -2.7 pts
- Free cash flow
- $146.3M
- Share count
- -3.3%
- 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
50/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 1.0
- vs normal
- 1.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+1.1%Institutions added 1.1% to their holdings. 328 bought, 375 sold.
Shares held by institutions149.3M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-1.7%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.0x · $103.8M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
160MNext reportDue any dayEstimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJan 26
- Results filedJan 27, 2025
- Results filedJan 29, 2024
- Results filedJan 30, 2023
- Results filedJan 31, 2022
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.