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Eastern Company (The)

EML Industrials Tools & Accessories

Eastern Company (The)’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $249.0 million, down 8.72% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 11.9%, EPS grew 67.9%, free cash flow grew 164.0% and total debt rose 13.3%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for ten consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

24.31 0.73 −2.92%
Market cap
$150.7M
P/E
18.1×
Fwd P/E
12.9×
Dividend yield
1.81%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
3.38
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
71/100
Overview Business Profile Financial Analysis Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios 10-Q 10-K

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total buys 1.17
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy 3 9 — — 10 — — 9 — — 4 —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 8.14%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 150.68
Revenue 236.99
Net Income 8.04
Free Cash Flow 15.19
Net Debt 29.31
Current Ratio 2.80 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.34 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 18.14
Fwd P/E 12.90
P/S ratio 0.62
P/B ratio 1.13
Past 5Y EPS Growth 6.35%
This Y EPS Growth (13.54%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y EPS Growth 29.29% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y revenue growth (0.47%) (below 0%: weak)
Next 5Y EPS Growth —

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 0.8×, against a ten-year median of 0.8×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.5× in 2023 to 1.4× in 2021.
P/E against its own 10 years 62.28%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 40.21%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 25.80%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 43.13%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 31.29%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.33
Annual Dividend Rate 0.44
Annual Dividend Yield 1.81%
total individual payouts
2026 0.01
0.11
0.11
0.11
2025 0.00
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2024 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2023 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2022 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2021 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2020 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2019 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2018 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2017 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
2016 0.44
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.11
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 9 16 7 15
Receivables 34 36 30 37
Inventory 58 55 56 66
Other 5 5 — —
112 116 99 125
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 25 20 16 27
ST’ Debt 3 4 — —
Other 2 3 — —
43 45 28 45

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 5.59% 4.73% (3.76%)
Cash Flow (0.30%) (9.45%) 5.94%
Earnings 2.22% 5.70% (16.61%)
Book Value 4.61% 3.63% (0.52%)

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 60 62 — — —
’25 63 70 55 60 249
’24 65 73 71 64 273
’23 72 68 62 56 259
’22 69 70 72 69 279
’21 62 61 64 60 247
’20 65 40 56 37 198
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 3 9 — — —
’25 (2) 4 3 4 9
’24 3 8 (3) 11 19
’23 7 7 5 7 26
’22 (4) 1 2 8 7
’21 1 3 (8) (4) (8)
’20 2 5 13 (5) 15
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 3 8 — — —
’25 (3) 3 3 2 5
’24 1 7 (8) 11 12
’23 6 6 2 6 20
’22 (3) 0 2 6 6
’21 3 2 (8) (6) (9)
’20 1 5 12 (6) 13
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.11 0.94 — — —
’25 0.32 0.56 0.10 0.19 1.17
’24 0.31 0.56 (2.46) 0.26 (1.37)
’23 0.10 0.22 0.49 0.56 1.37
’22 0.48 0.65 0.78 0.03 1.97
’21 0.93 (0.71) 0.95 0.62 1.49
’20 0.46 (0.30) 0.48 0.23 0.86
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 15.01 18.85 21.67 20.70 15.28 22.23 17.10 15.30 20.50 18.49

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 21.50 31.50 31.00 31.97 31.87 33.96 28.32 26.04 35.78 29.55
People
People Employees 862 1,189 1,327 1,399 1,323 1,191 1,191 1,199 1,246 1,246
Revenue/emp, $m 0.16 0.17 0.18 0.18 0.15 0.21 0.23 0.22 0.22 0.20
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 138 204 234 252 198 247 279 259 273 249
Gross margin, % 26.41 24.41 25.07 24.57 24.33 23.03 20.99 23.86 24.66 22.88
EBT 11 11 18 16 13 19 14 15 17 7
EBT margin, % 8.16 5.61 7.51 6.44 6.69 7.74 5.16 5.83 6.26 3.01
Net income 8 5 15 13 5 9 12 9 (9) 7
Depreciation 4 5 5 6 12 7 7 5 6 7
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 22.01 32.63 37.44 40.38 31.68 39.37 44.87 41.54 43.94 40.87
Earnings 1.25 0.81 2.32 2.13 0.87 1.49 1.98 1.38 (1.37) 1.17
Cash flow 1.99 1.79 2.06 3.68 2.33 (1.24) 1.20 4.10 3.12 1.46
Capex (0.46) (0.43) (0.86) (0.73) (0.30) (0.28) (0.19) (0.89) (1.20) (0.64)
Free cash flow 1.53 1.35 1.19 2.95 2.03 (1.52) 1.01 3.21 1.93 0.81
Book value 13.19 13.89 15.48 16.91 16.72 18.30 20.34 21.26 19.44 20.46
Shares, m 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 16.38 33.00 10.47 14.33 27.70 14.01 10.16 15.77 0.00 16.83
P/S 0.92 0.81 0.65 0.76 0.76 0.64 0.44 0.52 0.60 0.48
P/B 1.53 1.90 1.56 1.81 1.44 1.37 0.97 1.02 1.37 0.96
EV/Sales 0.76 0.87 0.71 1.08 1.13 0.90 0.63 0.66 0.71 0.62
EV/FCF 10.99 21.06 22.24 14.75 17.65 (23.39) 28.31 8.56 16.23 31.09
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 12 11 13 23 15 (8) 7 26 19 9
Capex (3) (3) (5) (5) (2) (2) (1) (6) (7) (4)
Free cash flow 10 8 7 18 13 (9) 6 20 12 5
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 65 69 71 81 71 74 78 70 71 72
Total debt 2 35 29 99 89 71 64 45 45 37
Net debt (21) 13 15 81 73 65 54 36 29 30
Shareholders’ equity 82 87 97 105 104 115 127 132 121 125
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 6.33 3.36 8.11 5.74 1.94 3.45 4.66 3.34 (3.50) 3.16
ROIC 11.31 7.56 10.00 5.86 4.75 6.07 4.90 6.33 8.40 4.33
ROE 9.62 5.96 15.78 13.11 5.15 8.54 10.20 6.63 (6.74) 5.81
Negative figures in brackets.

All 10 years →

Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Eastern Company (The) vs peers in Tools & Accessories (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
LECO Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. $14.2B 26.0× 24.2× +12.03% (above 0%: growing) +12.40% (above 0%: growing) +87.67% (above 0%: growing) 36.81% 18.09% Compare
SWK Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. $14.0B 22.5× 15.8× +0.39% (above 0%: growing) +249.25% (above 0%: growing) +418.34% (above 0%: growing) 32.97% 14.10% Compare
TTC Toro Company (The) $9.5B 26.8× 19.5× +8.35% (above 0%: growing) +50.00% (above 0%: growing) −22.43% (below 0%: shrinking) 34.11% 9.40% Compare
TKR Timken Company (The) $7.8B 30.2× 25.8× +7.46% (above 0%: growing) −62.83% (below 0%: shrinking) +3.19% (above 0%: growing) 31.67% 6.73% Compare
KMT Kennametal Inc. $2.4B 6.9× 7.2× +42.63% (above 0%: growing) +964.29% (above 0%: growing) −265.44% (below 0%: shrinking) 58.86% 41.12% Compare
HLMN Hillman Solutions Corp. $1.4B 33.5× 32.0× +9.79% (above 0%: growing) +37.50% (above 0%: growing) +125.12% (above 0%: growing) 47.05% 9.26% Compare
EML Eastern Company (The) $150.7M 18.1× 12.9× −11.89% (below 0%: shrinking) +67.86% (above 0%: growing) +164.03% (above 0%: growing) 20.63% 2.68%
CVR Chicago Rivet & Machine Co. $10.9M — (loss-making) 9.7× −0.84% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −5,035.37% (below 0%: shrinking) 7.78% (14.28%) Compare
TBLT ToughBuilt Industries, Inc. $1.7M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −44.65% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m +96.38% (above 0%: growing) 12.66% (118.09%) Compare
Median of peers $5.1B 26.4× 19.5× +7.91% +43.75% +45.43% 33.54% 9.33%

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Eastern Company (The) (EML) key facts

  • Concern: Eastern Company (The)’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $249.0 million, down 8.72% from fiscal 2024.
  • Eastern Company (The) (EML) is a Tools & Accessories company in the Industrials sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • Net income was $7.1 million, or $1.17 per share (basic), a net margin of 2.86%.
  • As of October 16, 2026, EML traded at $24.31, a market capitalization of $150.7 million.
  • At that price the stock trades at 18.1× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 0.6× sales; its P/E is higher than 62% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Eastern Company (The) pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share, a yield of 1.81%, with a payout ratio of 32.8%.
  • Return on equity was 5.81% and debt-to-equity 0.34.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 7 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 3.38 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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