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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Buying back shares: share count down 9.4% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$25.50+1.8% that day
- Company value
- $6.5B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 18.2x
- You pay about $18 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.8x
- Company value is 1.8 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 13%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 35%
- Debt as a share of company value
From GTES'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$941.6M+6.6% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $3.5B, up 3.3% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 4.3% 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.7.9%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.67x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.7.3%
- 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.$404.9M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-9.4% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.39.8%
- Revenue
- $3.4B
- +1.0% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +4.3%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $2.2B
- 0.67x equity
- Current ratio
- 3.37x
- 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 27, 2026- Revenue
- $941.6M
- +6.6% YoY
- EPS
- $0.67
- vs $0.22
- Op. margin
- 14.0%
- +0.9 pts
- Gross margin
- 41.0%
- +0.2 pts
- Free cash flow
- $60.3M
- Share count
- -1.7%
- 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
- 0.9
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-1.4%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.6x · $2.2B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
253MNext reportIn 0 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 31
- Results filedMay 1
- Results filedFeb 12
- 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.