TAYLOR DEVICES, INC. · General Industrial Machinery & Equipment, NEC

TAYD

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The short version

A high-quality, profitable business with shrinking sales. Institutions are adding.

Going well

Profitable every year for 10 years
Brings in more cash than it spends

Watch out for

Sales down 26% in the latest quarter vs a year ago

Money moves

No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
Institutions added 8.5% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (42 bought, 35 sold)

Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.

What the price means

Price as of Oct 26

$56.01-0.1% that day

Company value: $181M; Share price times all shares
Price vs profit (P/E): 27.1x; You pay about $27 for each $1 of yearly profit
Price vs sales: 4.6x; Company value is 4.6 times a year of sales
Cash vs value: 2%; Cash as a share of company value

From TAYD'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, Aug '26

$7.3M-26% vs a year earlier

Nov '23Tap a barAug '26

Last 12 months: $39.0M, down 12% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 13% a year.

What the price assumes

Your guesses, our math

Move the sliders to your own view of TAYD. Starting points are the company's recent numbers.

Sales growth-10% a yearRecently: -12% a yearProfit margin17%Last 12 months: 17.5%P/E at the end27xToday: 27.1x. Many steady companies trade at 12x to 25xShare count change0% a yearBelow zero means buybacks; above zero means new shares (dilution)

Sales in 5 years$23M

Profit in 5 years$4M

Price these guesses point to$32.80-41% vs $56.01 todayAbout -10% a year, before dividends

What today's price needs: with a 17% margin and a 27x P/E, sales would have to grow about 0.2% a year for 5 years just to match today's price.

Simple math on your guesses, not a forecast or a price target. Real results depend on many things these sliders leave out.

Price

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Business quality

The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.

4/5Strong

MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.13.9%
PassNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.20.6%
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.$4.9M
PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.44.1%

Revenue: $41.6M; -10.0% vs prior year
5-year growth: +13.1%/yr; revenue, per year
Current ratio: 10.02x; short-term assets / bills due
Free cash flow: $4.9M; 11.7% of revenue

From annual reports filed with the SEC. Not in this company's SEC data, so not scored: debt under half of equity, share count not growing. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.