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Knowles Corp KN

Household Audio & Video Equipment · CIK 0001587523 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$593.20M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$70.30M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
Unavailable
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$1.50BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$17.67Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income33.9×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue2.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.9×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 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

33.9× earnings today, against a median of 23.3× across 6 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$1.50B33.9×
2023-06-30$1.61B22.2×
2021-06-30$1.79B11.9×
2020-06-30$1.38B209.1×
2018-06-30$1.64B24.3×
2017-06-30$1.48B21.6×

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.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Household Audio & Video Equipment filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
CapEx / revenue5.4%100th
Net margin7.5%100th
Operating margin11.9%100th
Gross margin43.2%80th
Revenue YoY growth7.2%80th
R&D / revenue6.8%25th
SBC / revenue4.8%75th
Current ratio2.75x60th

Knowles Corp (KN) reported revenue of $593.20M and net income of $44.20M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from Knowles Corp’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Household Audio & Video Equipment.

Income

Knowles Corp income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$593.20M$553.50M$456.80M$478.80M$868.10M$764.30M$854.80M$826.90M$744.20M$755.70M
Cost of revenue$332.50M$316.80M$251.90M$251.80M$508.60M$490.80M$525.10M$503.90M$452.80M$458.20M
Gross profit$256.30M$234.80M$203.80M$227.00M$359.50M$271.20M$328.00M$322.60M$286.00M$295.70M
Operating income$70.30M$51.80M$43.40M$90.80M$115.80M$29.20M$81.20M$77.80M$39.90M$45.00M
Net income$44.20M-$237.80M$72.40M-$430.10M$150.40M$6.60M$49.10M$67.70M$68.30M-$42.30M
Research & development$40.20M$39.50M$32.40M$29.30M$92.80M$92.90M$96.80M$100.60M$93.40M$92.00M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 88.00Mshares 90.10Mshares 91.60Mshares 92.80Mshares 94.70Mshares 92.90Mshares 93.40Mshares 91.19Mshares 90.49Mshares 89.18M
Pretax income$64.00M$34.70M$37.30M$87.70M$104.60M$11.30M$66.30M$61.10M$19.40M$28.10M
Income tax expense$13.10M$11.30M-$28.30M$21.30M-$45.60M$8.40M$16.60M-$4.50M$12.90M$8.30M
Diluted EPS$0.50$-2.64$0.79$-4.63$1.59$0.07$0.53$0.74$0.75$-0.47
Selling, general & administrative$142.80M$142.00M$125.80M$106.30M$146.40M$131.50M$145.70M$142.50M$126.60M$149.90M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

Knowles Corp balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$54.20M$130.10M$87.30M$48.20M$68.90M$147.80M$78.40M$73.50M$111.70M$63.40M
Total assets$1.05B$1.12B$1.46B$1.18B$1.73B$1.65B$1.65B$1.55B$1.55B$1.52B
Current assets$291.40M$361.40M$428.80M$362.40M$380.30M$419.60M$388.40M$365.00M$394.90M$290.90M
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$105.90M$197.60M$164.60M$99.10M$166.20M$297.30M$151.50M$141.80M$151.60M$132.20M
Total equity incl. NCI$775.80M$756.00M$1.03B$992.90M$1.46B$1.30B$1.29B$1.21B$1.13B$1.01B
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$124.60M$118.00M$127.00M$169.50M$153.10M$130.10M$141.80M$140.10M$125.60M$90.80M
Accounts receivable$102.80M$105.00M$90.70M$134.70M$146.60M$131.40M$159.60M$140.30M$137.70M$126.40M
Goodwill$270.30M$269.80M$270.50M$200.90M$941.30M$910.00M$909.90M$887.90M$884.90M$871.60M
Long-term debt$114.00M$134.00M$224.10M$45.00M$70.00M$0$156.80M$158.10M$192.60M$288.50M
Accounts payable$42.90M$58.50M$35.90M$41.40M$90.90M$70.30M$87.70M$77.20M$85.60M$65.50M

Cash flow

Knowles Corp cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flowUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Capital expenditures$32.10M$13.60M$16.90M$32.10M$48.60M$31.90M$41.20M$80.10M$51.60M$38.70M
Investing cash flow-$31.60M$45.20M-$141.60M-$32.70M-$129.60M-$35.10M-$110.50M-$88.00M$69.50M$5.90M
Financing cash flow-$158.90M-$132.00M$58.20M-$73.20M-$131.40M-$23.90M-$8.50M-$48.60M-$117.90M-$109.90M
Net change in cash-$75.90M$42.80M$39.10M-$20.70M-$78.90M$69.40M$4.90M-$38.20M$45.50M$2.90M
Stock-based compensation$28.40M$22.80M$29.00M$28.60M$32.10M$17.30M$25.20M$27.00M$25.10M$21.50M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$65.00M$53.70M$47.50M$44.00M$44.50M$16.20M$0$0UnavailableUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$36.30M$50.30M$46.50M$53.90M$62.50M$60.60M$54.40M$52.40M$57.30M$73.70M

Derived

Knowles Corp derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flowUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Gross margin43.2%42.4%44.6%47.4%41.4%35.5%38.4%39.0%38.4%39.1%
Operating margin11.9%9.4%9.5%19.0%13.3%3.8%9.5%9.4%5.4%6.0%
FCF marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
SBC / revenue4.8%4.1%6.3%6.0%3.7%2.3%2.9%3.3%3.4%2.8%
Current ratio2.75x1.83x2.61x3.66x2.29x1.41x2.56x2.57x2.60x2.20x
Revenue YoY growth7.2%21.2%-4.6%-44.8%13.6%-10.6%3.4%11.1%-1.5%Unavailable
Net margin7.5%-43.0%15.8%-89.8%17.3%0.9%5.7%8.2%9.2%-5.6%
R&D / revenue6.8%7.1%7.1%6.1%10.7%12.2%11.3%12.2%12.6%12.2%
CapEx / revenue5.4%2.5%3.7%6.7%5.6%4.2%4.8%9.7%6.9%5.1%
Long-term debt / equity0.15xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate20.5%32.6%-75.9%24.3%-43.6%74.3%25.0%-7.4%66.5%29.5%

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

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-27View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-28View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-09View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-29View SEC filing

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