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Kadant Inc. (KAI)

NYSE / Industrials / Industrial - Machinery

Share price

258.72 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

3.06B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 3, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
15, FY2011 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

8.9% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

29.88x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

5.1% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 414.1M USDFY2016 Net income: 32.1M USDFY2017 Revenue: 515.0M USDFY2017 Net income: 31.1M USDFY2018 Revenue: 633.8M USDFY2018 Net income: 60.4M USDFY2019 Revenue: 704.6M USDFY2019 Net income: 52.1M USDFY2020 Revenue: 635.0M USDFY2020 Net income: 55.2M USDFY2021 Revenue: 786.6M USDFY2021 Net income: 84.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 904.7M USDFY2022 Net income: 120.9M USDFY2023 Revenue: 957.7M USDFY2023 Net income: 116.1M USDFY2024 Revenue: 1.05B USDFY2024 Net income: 111.6M USDFY2025 Revenue: 1.05B USDFY2025 Net income: 102.0M 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 29.88x 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), 29.88x sits at the 53rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 20.30x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 8.9% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (44 companies), 8.9% sits at the 42nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 6.3% to 14.9%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 10.10x 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 Kadant Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Industrial - Machinery industry, year by year. (FY2020 to FY2025, 6 fiscal years of Kadant Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Kadant Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Kadant Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Kadant Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Kadant Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Kadant Inc., and where in its filings. (2 questions for Kadant Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Kadant Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (16 of sixteen figures read for Kadant Inc.)

These are KAI’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 Mar 3, 2026, accession 0000886346-26-000018.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Kadant Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax8.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Return on equity10.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Return on capital employed, pre-tax10.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Return on assets6.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Gross margin45.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Operating margin14.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Net margin9.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
KAI 9.7%
SXI 11.7%CXT 8.8%FELE 6.9%CSW 10.3%HLIO 5.8%
5.8%11.7%
Net margin: KAI 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

Kadant Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.43 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Current ratio2.38 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Quick ratio1.47 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Interest coverage10.10x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Altman Z-score4.45 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Net debt298.0M ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Total assets 1.71BTotal liabilities 721.1MShareholders' equity 979.8MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Kadant Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018).

Kadant Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets1.71B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026
Total liabilities721.1M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026
Shareholders' equity979.8M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026
Cash119.6M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026
Total debt417.6M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026
Net debt298.0M
Current ratio2.38
Debt to equity0.43

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

Kadant Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings29.88x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
P/E on trailing twelve months27.86x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.11x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Price to sales2.90x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Enterprise value to EBIT21.29x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Enterprise value to EBITDA16.06x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Price to earnings over growth2.39 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Diluted earnings per share8.65 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Graham number127.23 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value KAI 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 Kadant Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Kadant Inc: valuation
Share price258.72 USD
Market capitalisation3.06B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA16.06x
Graham number127.23 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20258.65 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 11.94x, median 28.77x, high 43.86x, latest 27.86x. 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 Kadant Inc

  1. Standex International Corporation (SXI)Market cap 3.27B USD
  2. Crane NXT, Co. (CXT)Market cap 3.12B USD
  3. Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (FELE)Market cap 4.45B USD
  4. CSW Industrials, Inc. (CSW)Market cap 4.74B USD
  5. Helios Technologies, Inc. (HLIO)Market cap 2.24B USD

Same industry (Industrial - Machinery) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), 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

Kadant Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield5.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Free cash flow154.3M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Free cash flow margin14.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Dividend yield0.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Payout ratio15.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
FY2016 Free cash flow: 45.2M USDFY2016 Net income: 32.1M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 47.9M USDFY2017 Net income: 31.1M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 46.4M USDFY2018 Net income: 60.4M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 87.5M USDFY2019 Net income: 52.1M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 85.3M USDFY2020 Net income: 55.2M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 149.6M USDFY2021 Net income: 84.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 74.4M USDFY2022 Net income: 120.9M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 133.7M USDFY2023 Net income: 116.1M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 134.3M USDFY2024 Net income: 111.6M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 154.3M USDFY2025 Net income: 102.0M 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.

Kadant Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
29.88xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.11xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
21.29xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.1%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.9%FY2025Mar 3, 2026
0.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.43FY2025Mar 3, 2026
2.38FY2025Mar 3, 2026
2.90xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.39FY2025Oct 15, 2026
4.45FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.44FY2025Mar 3, 2026
5/9FY2025Mar 3, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 15 filed fiscal years on record, FY2011 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 Kadant Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Kadant 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
FY20251.05B157.3M102.0M8.65154.3M14.9%10.4%10-K, Mar 3, 20260000886346-26-000018
FY20241.05B171.3M111.6M9.48134.3M16.3%13.2%10-K, Feb 25, 20250000886346-25-000006
FY2023957.7M165.8M116.1M9.90133.7M17.3%15.0%10-K, Feb 27, 20240000886346-24-000026
FY2022904.7M171.3M120.9M10.3574.4M18.9%18.5%10-K, Feb 28, 20230000886346-23-000019
FY2021786.6M116.7M84.0M7.21149.6M14.8%14.9%10-K, Mar 1, 20220000886346-22-000018
FY2020635.0M81.1M55.2M4.7785.3M12.8%11.1%10-K, Mar 2, 20210000886346-21-000021
FY2019704.6M87.8M52.1M4.5487.5M12.5%12.2%10-K, Feb 25, 20200000886346-20-000019
FY2018633.8M88.6M60.4M5.3046.4M14.0%16.2%10-K, Feb 26, 20190000886346-19-000019
FY2017515.0M61.6M31.1M2.7547.9M12.0%9.4%10-K, Feb 27, 20180000886346-18-000018
FY2016414.1M46.6M32.1M2.8845.2M11.3%11.3%10-K, Mar 15, 20170000886346-17-000054
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 10.9%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 13.7%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 13.0%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 14.6%

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

Kadant Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.44 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026, 0000886346-26-000018
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta1.33 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 28 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
Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); 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); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; 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 the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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