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Knowles Corp KN

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

AnnualQuarterlyTTM
Revenue
$184.00M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Operating income
$30.70M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Free cash flow
$37.30M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30

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 $184.00M and net income of $21.60M for the fiscal year ended 2026-09-30. 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.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Revenue$184.00M$166.80M$153.10M$162.20M$152.90M$145.90M$132.20M$142.50M$142.50M$135.20M
Cost of revenue$102.20M$92.10M$85.90MUnavailable$82.80MUnavailable$78.40MUnavailable$79.50M$77.10M
Gross profit$81.30M$74.60M$67.10M$72.50M$69.90MUnavailable$53.30M$60.90M$62.90M$57.80M
Operating income$30.70M$24.70M$15.90M$25.80M$25.80M$14.70M$4.00M$15.40M$18.70M$12.70M
Net income$21.60M$19.40M$9.70M$21.00M$17.40M$7.80M-$2.00M$18.50M$500.00K-$259.30M
Research & development$11.10M$10.60M$11.70M$10.50M$10.00M$10.00M$9.70M$10.30M$10.20M$9.60M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 87.70Mshares 87.90Mshares 87.70MUnavailableshares 87.30Mshares 87.60Mshares 87.80MUnavailableshares 89.70Mshares 89.90M
Pretax income$27.80M$22.60M$11.00M$29.60M$22.30M$11.30M$800.00K$13.70M$12.20M$7.80M
Income tax expense$6.60M$4.20M-$300.00K$4.10M$4.30M$3.50M$1.20M$3.30M$3.00M$3.00M
Diluted EPS$0.25$0.22$0.11Unavailable$0.20$0.09$-0.02Unavailable$0.01$-2.88
Selling, general & administrative$39.40M$39.20M$39.40M$35.70M$34.00M$35.90M$37.20M$35.20M$33.90M$35.60M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

Knowles Corp balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Cash & equivalents$46.60M$49.60M$41.00M$54.20M$92.50M$103.20M$101.90M$130.10M$92.60M$84.00M
Total assets$1.08B$1.08B$1.05B$1.05B$1.09B$1.09B$1.10B$1.12B$1.17B$1.18B
Current assets$330.10M$324.30M$297.40M$291.40M$334.20M$334.80M$337.90M$361.40M$436.00M$422.90M
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$112.40M$101.30M$90.90M$105.90M$176.00M$167.20M$167.60M$197.60M$185.90M$178.90M
Total equity incl. NCI$798.30M$795.50M$780.20M$775.80M$751.80M$746.10M$755.80M$756.00M$777.40M$756.00M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$150.30M$147.10M$136.20M$124.60M$123.90M$119.70M$120.00M$118.00M$124.90M$190.10M
Accounts receivable$122.50M$116.50M$109.20M$102.80M$107.70M$101.10M$106.90M$105.00M$105.70M$136.10M
Goodwill$270.30M$270.40M$270.30M$270.30M$270.20M$270.10M$269.80M$269.80M$270.40M$291.20M
Long-term debt$116.00M$131.00M$131.00M$114.00M$104.00M$119.00M$119.00M$134.00M$175.50M$212.40M
Accounts payable$44.60M$48.30M$44.50M$42.90M$41.20M$38.80M$39.60M$58.50M$34.20M$52.50M

Cash flow

Knowles Corp cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Operating cash flow$44.60M$28.20M-$700.00KUnavailable$29.10M$36.40M$1.30MUnavailable$52.80M$24.90M
Capital expenditures$7.30M$6.50M$10.80M$15.30M$7.70M$5.10M$4.00M$3.30M$3.70M$3.20M
Investing cash flow-$7.30M-$6.50M-$10.80M-$15.30M-$7.70M-$5.10M-$3.50M$48.30M-$3.70M-$3.20M
Financing cash flow-$40.20M-$12.90M-$1.80M-$70.30M-$32.10M-$30.30M-$26.20M-$44.80M-$41.20M-$59.60M
Net change in cash-$3.00M$8.60M-$13.20M-$38.30M-$10.70M$1.30M-$28.20M$37.50M$8.60M-$38.10M
Stock-based compensation$6.80M$6.20M$10.40M$6.00M$5.90M$6.30M$10.20M$1.40M$7.30M$7.40M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$25.00M$15.00M$7.50M$10.00M$20.00M$30.00M$5.00M$24.20M$4.50M$25.00M
Depreciation & amortization$9.90M$9.70M$9.20M$9.20M$9.00M$9.10M$9.00M$9.60M$13.30M$13.40M

Derived

Knowles Corp derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Free cash flow$37.30M$21.70M-$11.50MUnavailable$21.40M$31.30M-$2.70MUnavailable$49.10M$21.70M
Gross margin44.2%44.7%43.8%44.7%45.7%Unavailable40.3%42.7%44.1%42.8%
Operating margin16.7%14.8%10.4%15.9%16.9%10.1%3.0%10.8%13.1%9.4%
FCF margin20.3%13.0%-7.5%Unavailable14.0%21.5%-2.0%Unavailable34.5%16.1%
SBC / revenue3.7%3.7%6.8%3.7%3.9%4.3%7.7%1.0%5.1%5.5%
Current ratio2.94x3.20x3.27x2.75x1.90x2.00x2.02x1.83x2.35x2.36x
Revenue YoY growth20.3%14.3%15.8%13.8%7.3%7.9%-0.8%2.4%31.8%-21.8%
Net margin11.7%11.6%6.3%12.9%11.4%5.3%-1.5%13.0%0.4%-191.8%
R&D / revenue6.0%6.4%7.6%6.5%6.5%6.9%7.3%7.2%7.2%7.1%
CapEx / revenue4.0%3.9%7.1%9.4%5.0%3.5%3.0%2.3%2.6%2.4%
Long-term debt / equity0.15xUnavailableUnavailable0.15xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate23.7%18.6%-2.7%13.9%19.3%31.0%150.0%24.1%24.6%38.5%

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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Reconciliation checks needing review

2 periods on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2025-06-30

Withheld: cost revenue could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-06-30

Withheld: cost revenue could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.