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KADANT INC KAI

Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) · CIK 0000886346 · Fiscal year ends 0102

Revenue
$1.05B
Fiscal year ended 2026-01-03
Operating income
$157.29M
Fiscal year ended 2026-01-03
Free cash flow
$154.28M
Fiscal year ended 2026-01-03

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$3.65BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-28
Float per share$309.83Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income35.8×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue3.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity3.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-28, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2026-01-03 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

35.8× earnings today, against a median of 20.7× across 10 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-28$3.65B35.8×
2024-06-29$3.41B30.5×
2023-07-01$2.57B22.1×
2022-07-02$2.14B17.7×
2021-07-03$2.02B24.0×
2020-06-27$1.06B19.2×
2019-06-29$1.00B19.2×
2018-06-30$1.04B17.2×
2017-07-01$804.72M25.9×
2016-07-02$560.18M17.5×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

KADANT INC (KAI) reported revenue of $1.05B and net income of $101.97M for the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from KADANT INC’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery).

Income

KADANT INC income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Revenue$1.05B$1.05B$957.67M$904.74M$786.58M$635.03M$704.64M$633.79M$515.03M$414.13M
Cost of revenue$576.52M$587.24M$541.37M$515.18M$449.21M$357.72M$410.88M$355.50M$283.89M$225.59M
Gross profit$475.73M$466.15M$416.31M$389.56M$337.36M$277.31M$293.76M$278.28M$231.15M$188.54M
Operating income$157.29M$171.25M$165.76M$171.28M$116.71M$81.12M$87.82M$88.60M$61.62M$46.64M
Net income$101.97M$111.60M$116.07M$120.93M$84.04M$55.20M$52.07M$60.41M$31.09M$32.08M
Research & development$15.26M$14.32M$13.56M$12.72M$11.40M$11.30M$10.88M$10.55M$9.56M$7.38M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 11.79Mshares 11.77Mshares 11.73Mshares 11.69Mshares 11.66Mshares 11.56Mshares 11.46Mshares 11.40Mshares 11.31Mshares 11.15M
Pretax income$143.58M$153.07M$159.02M$165.64M$112.05M$73.69M$68.92M$79.53M$57.65M$44.55M
Income tax expense$39.90M$40.52M$42.21M$43.91M$27.17M$17.95M$16.36M$18.48M$26.07M$12.08M
Diluted EPS$8.65$9.48$9.90$10.35$7.21$4.77$4.54$5.30$2.75$2.88
Selling, general & administrative$301.86M$279.92M$236.26M$224.40M$208.79M$181.90M$192.52M$177.41M$159.76M$134.83M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

KADANT INC balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$119.55M$94.66M$103.83M$76.37M$91.19M$65.68M$66.79M$45.83M$75.42M$71.49M
Total assets$1.71B$1.43B$1.18B$1.15B$1.13B$927.57M$939.39M$725.75M$761.09M$470.69M
Current assets$541.93M$442.33M$440.18M$415.41M$383.88M$289.82M$297.58M$252.76M$266.02M$207.35M
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$228.17M$191.56M$214.41M$213.46M$221.50M$134.69M$146.17M$128.99M$132.23M$88.91M
Total equity incl. NCI$991.07M$858.13M$776.24M$655.57M$565.62M$496.90M$427.08M$374.57M$332.50M$284.28M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$206.85M$146.09M$152.68M$163.67M$134.36M$106.81M$102.72M$86.37M$84.93M$54.95M
Accounts receivable$158.57M$142.46M$133.93M$130.30M$117.21M$91.54M$95.74M$92.62M$89.62M$65.96M
Goodwill$555.62M$479.17M$392.08M$385.46M$396.89M$351.75M$336.03M$258.17M$268.00M$151.46M
Long-term debt$371.37M$285.15M$107.67M$197.34M$264.16M$232.00M$298.17M$174.15M$241.38M$65.77M
Accounts payable$53.36M$51.06M$42.10M$58.06M$59.25M$32.26M$45.85M$35.72M$35.46M$23.93M

Cash flow

KADANT INC cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Operating cash flow$171.33M$155.26M$165.54M$102.62M$162.42M$92.88M$97.41M$62.98M$65.16M$51.00M
Capital expenditures$17.05M$21.00M$31.85M$28.20M$12.77M$7.60M$9.96M$16.56M$17.28M$5.80M
Investing cash flow-$205.42M-$319.14M-$30.79M-$29.52M-$154.48M-$14.54M-$187.36M-$16.36M-$221.88MUnavailable
Financing cash flow$54.01M$159.91M-$111.11M-$80.57M$22.81M-$84.56M$112.45M-$74.16M$150.48MUnavailable
Net change in cash$26.74M-$10.51M$26.73M-$14.44M$27.52M-$1.63M$22.16M-$30.73M$3.28MUnavailable
Stock-based compensation$11.24M$10.64M$9.76M$8.58M$8.53M$6.78M$6.82M$7.03M$5.80M$5.07M
Common dividends paid$15.78M$14.67M$13.22M$12.00M$11.46M$10.90M$10.20M$9.64M$9.01M$8.04M
Common share repurchasesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$0$0
Depreciation & amortization$51.22M$49.59M$33.30M$34.94M$34.30M$31.33M$32.39M$23.57M$19.38M$14.33M

Derived

KADANT INC derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Free cash flow$154.28M$134.26M$133.70M$74.43M$149.65M$85.29M$87.46M$46.43M$47.88M$45.20M
Gross margin45.2%44.3%43.5%43.1%42.9%43.7%41.7%43.9%44.9%45.5%
Operating margin14.9%16.3%17.3%18.9%14.8%12.8%12.5%14.0%12.0%11.3%
FCF margin14.7%12.7%14.0%8.2%19.0%13.4%12.4%7.3%9.3%10.9%
SBC / revenue1.1%1.0%1.0%0.9%1.1%1.1%1.0%1.1%1.1%1.2%
Current ratio2.38x2.31x2.05x1.95x1.73x2.15x2.04x1.96x2.01x2.33x
Revenue YoY growth-0.1%10.0%5.9%15.0%23.9%-9.9%11.2%23.1%24.4%Unavailable
Net margin9.7%10.6%12.1%13.4%10.7%8.7%7.4%9.5%6.0%7.7%
R&D / revenue1.5%1.4%1.4%1.4%1.4%1.8%1.5%1.7%1.9%1.8%
CapEx / revenue1.6%2.0%3.3%3.1%1.6%1.2%1.4%2.6%3.4%1.4%
Long-term debt / equity0.37xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate27.8%26.5%26.5%26.5%24.2%24.4%23.7%23.2%45.2%27.1%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open KAI in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-12View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-13View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-03-03View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-05View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-07View SEC filing

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