← BackKnife River Corp · Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic MineralsKNF
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The short versionA profitable company with growing sales.
Going well
- Sales up 13% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Profitable
- Brings in more cash than it spends
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 0.8% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (163 bought, 166 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$52.87-0.5% that day
- Company value
- $3.0B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 21.6x
- You pay about $22 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.91x
- Company value is 0.91 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 1%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 39%
- Debt as a share of company value
From KNF'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$938.6M+13% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $3.3B, up 12% from the 12 months before.
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.10.1%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.71x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.5.0%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.5 of 5 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$278.5M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+0.6% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.18.4%
- Revenue
- $3.1B
- +8.5% vs prior year
- Total debt
- $1.2B
- 0.71x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.54x
- short-term assets / bills due
- Free cash flow
- $278.5M
- 8.9% of revenue
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $938.6M
- +12.6% YoY
- EPS
- $0.77
- vs $0.89
- Op. margin
- 8.6%
- -2.0 pts
- Gross margin
- 17.3%
- -1.6 pts
- Free cash flow
- -$147.9M
- Share count
- -0.1%
- 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
- 0.6
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+0.8%Institutions added 0.8% to their holdings. 163 bought, 166 sold. 2 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions54.9M
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
1.0x · $1.6B debtShares outstandingLatest reported
57MNext reportIn 6 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 4
- Results filedMay 5
- Results filedFeb 17
- Results filedNov 4, 2025
- Results filedAug 5, 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.