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

Kadant Inc (KAI) P/S ratio

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As of 5 November 2026, Kadant Inc (KAI) trades at a P/S ratio of 3.0×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.9× (March 2020) to 4.8× (November 2024); the current reading is higher than 68% of that period. That is above the Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median of 2.8× and above the Industrials sector median of 1.5×.

P/S ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
FY2025 3.2× (17.06%)
FY2024 3.8× 14.68%
FY2023 3.4× 45.02%
FY2022 2.3× (31.86%)
FY2021 3.4× 33.10%
FY2020 2.5× 51.77%
FY2019 1.7× 17.87%
FY2018 1.4× (32.32%)
FY2017 2.1× 29.38%
FY2016 1.6× 43.83%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
Sep 2026 2.6× (19.67%)
Jun 2026 3.2× 2.23%
Mar 2026 3.2× (1.21%)
Dec 2025 3.2× (6.82%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.9× High 4.8×
Ten-year median 2.4×
Current reading's percentile 65

P/S ratio against peers

Company P/S ratio
MIDD The Middleby Corporation compare 1.7×
FELE Franklin Electric Co., Inc. compare 1.9×
MWA MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS compare 2.6×
KAI Kadant Inc 3.0×
SXI Standex International Corporation compare 3.1×
CSW CSW Industrials, Inc. compare 3.6×
MIR Mirion Technologies, Inc. compare 3.9×
NPO Enpro Inc. compare 4.3×
XE X-Energy, Inc. compare 18.0×
Specialty Industrial Machinery industry median 2.8×
Industrials sector median 1.5×
Market median 1.9×

What P/S ratio is

Price to Sales Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual sales, whether or not it is profitable.

(Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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