← BackKEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP /DE/ · Laboratory Apparatus & FurnitureKEQU
Low riskNext report: Around Dec 9 (est.)
The short versionA profitable company with shrinking sales.
Going well
- Profitable
- Sales up 17% last year
- Brings in more cash than it spends
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 1% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (11 bought, 8 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$32.31-0.3% that day
- Company value
- $94M
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 11.7x
- You pay about $12 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.34x
- Company value is 0.34 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 9%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 23%
- Debt as a share of company value
From KEQU'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, Jul '26$66.3M-6.7% vs a year earlier
Oct '23Tap a barJul '26
Last 12 months: $277.2M, up 5.3% 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.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.14.6%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.30x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.3.4%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.7 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$18.6M
- MissShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+2.8% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.28.5%
- Revenue
- $282.0M
- +17.3% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +13.8%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $21.3M
- 0.30x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.12x
- 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 Jul 31, 2026- Revenue
- $66.3M
- -6.7% YoY
- EPS
- $0.58
- vs $1.04
- Op. margin
- 4.8%
- -2.0 pts
- Gross margin
- 29.6%
- +0.2 pts
- Free cash flow
- $1.2M
- Share count
- -1.4%
- 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
- 0.4
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+1.0%Institutions added 1.0% to their holdings. 11 bought, 8 sold. 4 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions1.2M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-0.1%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.3x · $18.8M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
3MNext reportAround Dec 9 (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedSep 9
- Results filedJun 23
- Results filedMar 11
- Results filedDec 10, 2025
- Results filedSep 10, 2025
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.
Latest filings
Straight from SEC EDGAR
Option exerciseThomas David Iii HullPresident & CEO, Director
54,388 shares
- +165% of holdings
- Now owns 87,388 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Returned to company, Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseDonald T. Iii GardnerChief Financial Officer
21,265 shares
- +222% of holdings
- Now owns 30,829 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Returned to company, Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseDouglas J. BatdorffSVP, Manufacturing Operations
7,451 shares
- +104% of holdings
- Now owns 14,630 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Returned to company, Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseRyan S. NobleSVP, Sales & Marketing Dev
7,206 shares
- +52% of holdings
- Now owns 21,049 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Returned to company, Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseMandar RanadeSVP, IT & Engineering
7,227 shares
- +57% of holdings
- Now owns 19,892 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Returned to company, Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseElizabeth D PhillipsSVP, People & Culture
6,656 shares
- +81% of holdings
- Now owns 14,904 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Returned to company, Shares withheld for taxes