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Graco Inc. (GGG)

NYSE / Industrials / Industrial - Machinery

Share price

81.78 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

13.24B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 17, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
17, FY2008 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

24.7% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

26.04x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

4.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 1.33B USDFY2016 Net income: 40.7M USDFY2017 Revenue: 1.47B USDFY2017 Net income: 252.4M USDFY2018 Revenue: 1.65B USDFY2018 Net income: 341.1M USDFY2019 Revenue: 1.65B USDFY2019 Net income: 343.9M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.65B USDFY2020 Net income: 330.5M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.99B USDFY2021 Net income: 439.9M USDFY2022 Revenue: 2.14B USDFY2022 Net income: 460.6M USDFY2023 Revenue: 2.20B USDFY2023 Net income: 506.5M USDFY2024 Revenue: 2.11B USDFY2024 Net income: 486.1M USDFY2025 Revenue: 2.24B USDFY2025 Net income: 521.8M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 26.04x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (52 companies), 26.04x sits at the 39th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 20.30x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 24.7% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (44 companies), 24.7% sits at the 95th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 6.3% to 14.9%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 215.97x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Graco Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Industrial - Machinery industry, year by year. (FY2017 to FY2025, 9 fiscal years of Graco Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Graco Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Graco Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Graco Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (7 readings drawn from the statement lines Graco Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Graco Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Graco Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Graco Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (16 of sixteen figures read for Graco Inc.)

These are GGG’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, accession 0000042888-26-000081.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Graco Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax24.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Return on equity19.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Return on capital employed, pre-tax22.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Return on assets15.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Gross margin52.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Operating margin27.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Net margin23.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
GGG 23.3%
CR 15.9%IEX 14.0%WTS 14.0%NDSN 17.4%ITT 12.4%
12.4%23.3%
Net margin: GGG against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Graco Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.01 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Current ratio3.15 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Quick ratio2.29 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Interest coverage215.97x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Altman Z-score15.69 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Net debt-595.6M ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Total assets 3.27BTotal liabilities 620.3MShareholders' equity 2.65BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Graco Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081).

Graco Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets3.27B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Total liabilities620.3M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Shareholders' equity2.65B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Cash624.1M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Total debt28.5M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Net debt-595.6M
Current ratio3.15
Debt to equity0.01

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Graco Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings26.04x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
P/E on trailing twelve months25.39x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book5.21x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Price to sales6.19x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Enterprise value to EBIT21.20x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Enterprise value to EBITDA18.09x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Price to earnings over growth2.66 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Diluted earnings per share3.08 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Graham number33.29 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value GGG on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Graco Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Graco Inc: valuation
Share price81.78 USD
Market capitalisation13.24B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA18.09x
Graham number33.29 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20253.08 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 19.73x, median 28.27x, high 136.58x, latest 25.39x. 2,522 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Graco Inc

  1. Crane Company (CR)Market cap 11.89B USD
  2. IDEX Corporation (IEX)Market cap 17.43B USD
  3. Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (WTS)Market cap 11.85B USD
  4. Nordson Corporation (NDSN)Market cap 18.31B USD
  5. ITT Inc. (ITT)Market cap 17.97B USD

Same industry (Industrial - Machinery) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Graco Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield4.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Free cash flow637.9M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Free cash flow margin28.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Dividend yield1.4% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Payout ratio35.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
FY2016 Free cash flow: 233.9M USDFY2016 Net income: 40.7M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 297.7M USDFY2017 Net income: 252.4M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 314.1M USDFY2018 Net income: 341.1M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 290.8M USDFY2019 Net income: 343.9M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 322.7M USDFY2020 Net income: 330.5M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 323.3M USDFY2021 Net income: 439.9M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 176.2M USDFY2022 Net income: 460.6M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 466.2M USDFY2023 Net income: 506.5M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 515.0M USDFY2024 Net income: 486.1M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 637.9M USDFY2025 Net income: 521.8M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Graco Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
26.04xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.21xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
21.20xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
4.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
24.7%FY2025Feb 17, 2026
1.4%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.01FY2025Feb 17, 2026
3.15FY2025Feb 17, 2026
6.19xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.66FY2025Oct 15, 2026
15.69FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.60FY2025Feb 17, 2026
6/9FY2025Feb 17, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 17 filed fiscal years on record, FY2008 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Graco Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Graco Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20252.24B624.8M521.8M3.08637.9M27.9%19.7%10-K, Feb 17, 20260000042888-26-000081
FY20242.11B570.1M486.1M2.82515.0M27.0%18.8%10-K, Feb 18, 20250000042888-25-000011
FY20232.20B646.8M506.5M2.94466.2M29.5%22.8%10-K, Feb 20, 20240000042888-24-000010
FY20222.14B572.7M460.6M2.66176.2M26.7%24.8%10-K, Feb 21, 20230000042888-23-000008
FY20211.99B531.3M439.9M2.52323.3M26.7%25.7%10-K, Feb 22, 20220000042888-22-000013
FY20201.65B391.7M330.5M1.92322.7M23.7%25.7%10-K, Feb 16, 20210000042888-21-000011
FY20191.65B424.5M343.9M2.00290.8M25.8%33.5%10-K, Feb 18, 20200000042888-20-000015
FY20181.65B436.4M341.1M1.97314.1M26.4%45.4%10-K, Feb 19, 20190000042888-19-000011
FY20171.47B378.7M252.4M1.45297.7M25.7%34.9%10-K, Feb 20, 20180000042888-18-000009
FY20161.33B121.1M40.7M0.24233.9M9.1%7.1%10-K, Feb 21, 20170000042888-17-000006
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.0%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 32.8%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 32.8%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 11.8%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Graco Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.60 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000042888-26-000081
Named tests met8 of 30 Computed
Beta0.71 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 8 met, 22 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
High returns and growth; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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