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KAIKadant Inc
Industrials · Industrial Machinery/Components · Mid
$262.39−1.91%
As of 23 Oct 2026Mkt cap $3.5B
Stage 13
AVOID
Fundamentals
46.3/75
Technical
5.0/15
Independent
51.3/90
GCAE viewstructural technical damage is a hard non-actionable condition
Price
- 1M
- −4.4%
- 3M
- −15.9%
- 6M
- −16.1%
- 1Y
- −10.6%
Financials & valuation
Cached filing evidence · as of 2026-10-02
Valuation
- P/E
- 28.2xHist median 36.8x
- Forward P/E
- —No validated forward-estimate source
- Price / FCF
- 19.3x
- FCF yield
- 5.2%
Quality
- ROIC
- 9.9%
- Operating margin
- 16.3%
- FCF margin
- 14.7%
- Current ratio
- 2.4x
Growth
- Revenue growth
- −0.1%Latest FY YoY
- Revenue CAGR
- +7.5%
- EPS CAGR
- +4.7%
- FCF CAGR
- +0.8%
Capital
- Share-count trend
- +0.3%3Y annualised
- Net debt
- $252M1.5x OCF
Annual trend
- CAGR 2021–2025
- +7.5%
- Latest · 2025
- $1B
- YoY
- −0.1%
GCAE Research
- Quality Research
- PRE-AI
- Acceleration Radar
- FUNDAMENTAL GATE FAIL
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
- Final / Opportunity
- NOT FLAGGED
Key takeaway
structural technical damage is a hard non-actionable condition
Unresolved question
No reliable unresolved question is available from the current committed evidence.
Watch next
- Next earnings · 2026-11-03
More details & evidence
Production decision
- Stage 13
- AVOID
- Technical state
- damaged
- Rotation
- headwind
- Evidence
- fresh
Presentation freshness
- Stage 11 market
- 2026-10-23 · Massive
- Financial cache
- 2026-10-02
- Quality Research
- CURRENT
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
Authority
- Company page
- Presentation only
- Scores
- Frozen GCAE production outputs
- Research
- Research-only lanes; no score override
- Private portfolio
- Not loaded