Kadant Inc

KAI Industrials Specialty Industrial Machinery

Kadant Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.1 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+15.3%
EPS
+28.6%
Free cash flow
+15.9%
Total debt
+76.4%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

297.35 2.10 −0.70%
Market cap
$3.5B
P/E
30.0×
Fwd P/E
26.4×
Dividend yield
0.47%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.70
Beneish M
−2.59
Dividend safety
92/100

Kadant Inc (KAI) Book value per share

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Kadant Inc's book value per share at the end of fiscal 2025 was 84.2×, up 15.2% from 73.1× in fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 it was 90.0×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 24.7× (fiscal 2015) to 84.2× (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. Kadant Inc ranks 4th of 79 Specialty Industrial Machinery companies by book value per share.

Book value per share, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Book value per share Change
FY2025 84.2× 15.16%
FY2024 73.1× 10.18%
FY2023 66.3× 17.94%
FY2022 56.3× 15.16%
FY2021 48.8× 12.87%
FY2020 43.3× 13.85%
FY2019 38.0× 12.51%
FY2018 33.8× 11.69%
FY2017 30.3× 15.67%
FY2016 26.2× 6.08%

Quarterly newest first

Period Book value per share Change
Sep 2026 90.0× 2.84%
Jun 2026 87.5× 2.62%
Mar 2026 85.3× 1.34%
Dec 2025 84.2× 3.11%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 24.7× High 84.2×
Ten-year median 43.3×
Current reading's percentile 100

Book value per share against peers

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BV per Share tells an investor how much of a company’s accounting net worth stands behind each share.

(Shareholders Equity (Total) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted))

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