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The short versionA profitable company with growing sales.
Going well
- Sales up 11% 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 1.9% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (140 bought, 113 sold)
- Held by Cathie Wood (ARK Invest)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$86.56+1.2% that day
- Company value
- $2.1B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 69.2x
- You pay about $69 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 3.7x
- Company value is 3.7 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 6%
- Cash as a share of company value
From PRLB'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$149.3M+11% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $560.5M, up 10% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 4.2% 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.3.2%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.No debt reported
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.4.0%
- 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.$59.7M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-11.5% in 3 years
- PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.44.5%
- Revenue
- $533.1M
- +6.4% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +4.2%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- None
- 0.00x equity
- Current ratio
- 3.49x
- 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 30, 2026- Revenue
- $149.3M
- +10.6% YoY
- EPS
- $0.37
- vs $0.18
- Op. margin
- 7.6%
- +3.9 pts
- Gross margin
- 46.4%
- +2.1 pts
- Free cash flow
- $9.2M
- Share count
- +1.3%
- 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
- 1.1
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+1.9%Institutions added 1.9% to their holdings. 140 bought, 113 sold. 2 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions22.5M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-2.9%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
24MNext reportIn 3 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 31
- Results filedMay 1
- Results filedFeb 6
- Results filedOct 31, 2025
- Results filedJul 31, 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.