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The short versionA profitable company with shrinking sales.
Going well
- Profitable
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Little debt
Watch out for
- Sales down 12% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 0.4% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (79 bought, 55 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$17.26-0.1% that day
- Company value
- $462M
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 59.5x
- You pay about $60 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.3x
- Company value is 1.3 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 2%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 9%
- Debt as a share of company value
From LXFR'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$95.7M-10% vs a year earlier
Dec '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $363.2M, down 13% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 3.4% 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.3.5%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.17x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.2.0%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.9 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$26.2M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-1.1% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.23.2%
- Revenue
- $384.6M
- -1.9% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +3.4%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $39.4M
- 0.17x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.67x
- 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 28, 2026- Revenue
- $95.7M
- -11.5% YoY
- EPS
- $0.18
- Op. margin
- 8.2%
- Gross margin
- 25.6%
- Free cash flow
- $0
- 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
63/ 100
- This week
- 2
- Normal week
- 1.2
- vs normal
- 1.7x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+0.4%Institutions added 0.4% to their holdings. 79 bought, 55 sold.
Shares held by institutions24.9M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-0.2%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.3x · $58.3M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
27MNext reportDue any dayEstimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 30, 2024
- Results filedApr 30, 2024
- Results filedOct 11, 2023
- Results filedOct 25, 2021
- Results filedJul 26, 2021
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.