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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

299.50 9.06 −2.94%
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
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Kadant Inc (KAI) EV/FCF

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As of 5 November 2026, Kadant Inc (KAI) trades at a EV/FCF of 24.0×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 9.3× (January 2015) to 38.0× (October 2017); the current reading is higher than 59% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 23.3× (25.41%)
FY2024 31.3× 31.74%
FY2023 23.8× (17.84%)
FY2022 28.9× 53.91%
FY2021 18.8× (10.11%)
FY2020 20.9× 29.65%
FY2019 16.1× (27.23%)
FY2018 22.2× (14.88%)
FY2017 26.0× 78.10%
FY2016 14.6× 25.81%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Sep 2026 21.2× (16.62%)
Jun 2026 25.4× 6.60%
Mar 2026 23.9× 2.23%
Dec 2025 23.3× (6.26%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 9.3× High 38.0×
Ten-year median 22.1×
Current reading's percentile 55

EV/FCF against peers

Company EV/FCF
XE X-Energy, Inc. compare −2.4×
MIDD The Middleby Corporation compare 16.0×
MWA MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS compare 23.5×
FELE Franklin Electric Co., Inc. compare 23.8×
KAI Kadant Inc 24.0×
CSW CSW Industrials, Inc. compare 29.4×
MIR Mirion Technologies, Inc. compare 29.5×
NPO Enpro Inc. compare 33.4×
SXI Standex International Corporation compare 51.2×

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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