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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 4.7% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 4.1% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (137 bought, 112 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$116.26+3.1% that day
- Company value
- $2.1B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 19.7x
- You pay about $20 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 3.7x
- Company value is 3.7 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 1.0%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 6%
- Cash as a share of company value
From MCRI'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, Mar '26$136.6M+8.9% vs a year earlier
Jun '23Tap a barMar '26
Last 12 months: $556.3M, up 5.8% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 24% 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.19.2%
- 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.18.6%
- 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.$128.4M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-4.7% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.23.4%
- Revenue
- $545.1M
- +4.4% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +24.2%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- None
- 0.00x equity
- Current ratio
- 0.86x
- 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 Mar 31, 2026- Revenue
- $136.6M
- +8.9% YoY
- EPS
- $1.52
- vs $1.05
- Gross margin
- 25.6%
- +5.4 pts
- Free cash flow
- $43.0M
- Share count
- -3.3%
- 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
- 0.2
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+4.1%Institutions added 4.1% to their holdings. 137 bought, 112 sold.
Shares held by institutions11.6M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-2.5%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
18MNext reportDue any dayEstimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 21
- Results filedApr 22
- Results filedFeb 4
- Results filedOct 22, 2025
- Results filedJul 16, 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
SoldJohn FarahiCEO, Director, 10% owner
5,000 shares at $124.00 · $620K
- -1% of holdings
- Now owns 611,556 shares
- Not a pre-planned sale
- Filed 4 days after trade
Stock awardHope S TaitzDirector
6,100 shares at $131.61 · $803K
- Now owns 6,100 shares
- Exercise price $131.61
- Option/Right to Buy
- Filed 7 days after trade
Stock awardCraig F SullivanDirector
6,100 shares at $131.61 · $803K
- +17% of holdings
- Now owns 42,700 shares
- Exercise price $131.61
- Option/Right to Buy
- Filed 6 days after trade
Stock awardEdwin S. KoenigCAO
5,000 shares at $131.61 · $658K
- +33% of holdings
- Now owns 20,001 shares
- Exercise price $131.61
- Option/Right to Buy
- Filed 6 days after trade
Stock awardPaul AndrewsDirector
6,100 shares at $131.61 · $803K
- +12% of holdings
- Now owns 57,900 shares
- Exercise price $131.61
- Options/Right to Buy
- Filed 2 days after trade
SoldJohn FarahiCEO, Director, 10% owner
5,000 shares at $120.84 · $604K
- -1% of holdings
- Now owns 616,556 shares
- Not a pre-planned sale
- Filed 1 day after trade