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Low riskNext report: Around Jan 29, 2027 (est.)
The short versionA high-quality, profitable business 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 5.8% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 5.4% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (279 bought, 209 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$20.64-0.2% that day
- Company value
- $4.3B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 10.9x
- You pay about $11 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.7x
- Company value is 1.7 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 2.3%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 5%
- Cash as a share of company value
From GNTX'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$651.3M-1.0% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $2.6B, up 10% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 8.5% 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.15.5%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.No debt reported
- PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.15.2%
- 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.$587.1M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-5.8% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.34.2%
- Revenue
- $2.5B
- +9.6% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +8.5%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- None
- 0.00x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.91x
- 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 30, 2026Reported Oct 23Before open8:00 am ET - Revenue
- $647.7M
- -1.1% YoY
- EPS
- $0.43
- vs $0.46
- Op. margin
- 17.8%
- -0.9 pts
- Gross margin
- 33.4%
- -1.0 pts
From the press release, checked against last year's SEC filing. Cash flow and share count update with the 10-Q.
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
67/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 0.5
- vs normal
- 2.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+5.4%Institutions added 5.4% to their holdings. 279 bought, 209 sold.
Shares held by institutions209.4M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-3.4%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
No debt reportedShares outstandingLatest reported
211MNext reportAround Jan 29, 2027 (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedOct 23
- Results filedJul 24
- Results filedApr 24
- Results filedJan 30
- Results filedOct 24, 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.
Latest filings
Straight from SEC EDGAR
Stock awardLeslie L BrownDirector
5,626 shares
- +15% of holdings
- Now owns 41,988 shares
- Filed 1 day after trade
Stock awardGarth DeurDirector
5,626 shares
- +39% of holdings
- Now owns 20,045 shares
- Filed 1 day after trade
Stock awardBilly PinkDirector
5,626 shares
- +58% of holdings
- Now owns 15,329 shares
- Filed 1 day after trade
Stock awardRichard O SchaumDirector
5,626 shares
- +7% of holdings
- Now owns 87,069 shares
- Filed 1 day after trade
Stock awardKathleen StarkoffDirector
5,626 shares
- +18% of holdings
- Now owns 36,770 shares
- Filed 1 day after trade
Stock awardBrian C WalkerDirector
5,626 shares
- +23% of holdings
- Now owns 29,831 shares
- Filed 1 day after trade