Nordson Corporation

NDSN Industrials Specialty Industrial Machinery

Nordson Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended October 2025) was $2.8 billion, up 3.78% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue grew 10.3%, EPS grew 22.9%, free cash flow grew 4.57% and total debt fell 18.3%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years, revenue growth for five.

322.31 6.49 −1.97%
Market cap
$18.3B
P/E
32.5×
Fwd P/E
27.9×
Dividend yield
1.05%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.80
Beneish M
−2.66
Dividend safety
89/100
Oct '25 Oct '24 Oct '23 Oct '22 Oct '21 Oct '20 Oct '19 Oct '18 Oct '17 Oct '16
P/E ratio
27.07 30.30 24.92 25.25 33.04 45.50 26.71 18.86 24.70 20.99
Piotroski F-Score
5 5 5 7 7 5 5 6 4 8
P/S ratio
4.70 5.27 4.62 5.01 6.36 5.36 4.11 3.15 3.53 3.16
Altman Z-Score
4.80 4.74 4.88 7.82 8.02 5.71 5.15 4.52 3.96 4.78
Altman Z″-Score (non-manufacturers)
4.99 4.91 5.17 6.44 6.53 5.36 5.32 5.16 3.98 5.37
P/FCF ratio
19.85 28.82 20.00 28.07 29.60 25.13 28.16 17.12 25.20 20.77
Beneish M-Score
(2.66) (2.56) (2.59) (2.34) (2.52) (2.85) (2.45) (2.64) (2.38) (2.49)
P/Operating CF
64.71 147.06 74.36 74.76 88.17 59.12 61.52 43.97 54.01 40.84
Dividend Safety Score
89 — — — — — — — — —
P/B ratio
4.31 4.83 4.67 5.65 6.96 6.47 5.70 4.90 6.31 6.71
Price to Tangible BV
0.00 0.00 0.00 80.90 169.62 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
EV/Sales
5.38 6.05 5.24 5.23 6.59 5.79 4.61 3.70 4.25 3.67
EV/EBITDA
17.43 20.09 17.55 16.89 21.64 26.55 17.04 13.65 15.78 14.47
EV/Operating CF
20.89 29.26 21.47 26.41 28.50 24.45 26.41 16.52 24.64 19.83
EV/FCF
22.72 33.09 22.69 29.33 30.65 27.14 31.61 20.08 30.40 24.13
Quick Ratio
0.92 1.34 1.21 0.84 1.77 1.87 1.43 1.68 0.92 1.50
Current Ratio
1.64 2.41 2.11 1.36 2.62 2.81 2.12 2.52 1.37 2.25
Net Debt/EBITDA
2.20 2.59 2.08 0.73 0.74 1.96 1.86 2.01 2.70 2.01
Debt/Assets
33.87% 36.95% 33.30% 19.61% 21.92% 30.38% 35.65% 38.67% 46.64% 40.92%
Debt/Equity
0.66 0.76 0.67 0.33 0.38 0.63 0.79 0.91 1.38 1.16
Asset Turnover
0.47 0.48 0.58 0.68 0.63 0.59 0.63 0.66 0.71 0.76
Operating CF/Net income
1.48 1.19 1.32 1.00 1.20 2.01 1.14 1.34 1.21 1.23
Capex/Depreciation
(0.38) (0.47) (0.31) (0.51) (0.37) (0.44) (0.57) (0.82) (0.74) (0.85)
Interest Coverage
6.83 7.58 11.31 31.34 24.13 10.87 10.25 10.14 12.74 18.22
ROE
16.21% 16.90% 19.93% 23.04% 23.19% 14.94% 22.24% 28.96% 29.48% 35.97%
ROA
8.13% 8.31% 10.75% 13.48% 12.17% 6.94% 9.72% 11.04% 10.14% 11.37%
ROIC
9.01% 8.37% 9.94% 15.24% 14.29% 8.19% 11.25% 11.73% 10.97% 13.68%
Return on Tangible Assets
48.37% 36.19% 46.87% 78.67% 42.27% 24.56% 36.15% 41.00% 50.39% 39.56%
Average Days of Receivables
76.86 80.69 82.05 75.71 75.62 81.20 88.29 79.55 89.19 86.47
Research and Development Expense of Revenue
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Selling, General and Administrative Expense of Revenue
29.21% 30.19% 28.63% 27.96% 30.01% 32.70% 32.31% 32.54% 32.55% 33.45%
Intangible Assets out of Total Assets
0.67 0.67 0.66 0.56 0.55 0.58 0.59 0.62 0.63 0.56
Share Based Compensation of Revenue
0.68% 0.70% 0.86% 1.19% 0.96% 0.61% 0.82% 0.96% 0.98% 1.01%
Graham Net Nets
(0.12) (0.13) (0.12) (0.03) (0.03) (0.08) (0.10) (0.15) (0.19) (0.14)
Graham Number
101.82 97.15 93.46 89.34 80.92 54.47 60.28 60.51 48.15 40.02
Earnings Yield
3.69% 3.30% 4.01% 3.96% 3.03% 2.20% 3.74% 5.30% 4.05% 4.76%
Free Cash Flow Yield
5.04% 3.47% 5.00% 3.56% 3.38% 3.98% 3.55% 5.84% 3.97% 4.81%
Revenue per Share
49.32 47.05 46.04 44.95 40.66 36.72 38.19 38.89 35.93 31.70
Operating CF per Share
12.70 9.73 11.23 8.90 9.40 8.70 6.66 8.71 6.20 5.86
Capex per Share
(1.02) (1.13) (0.60) (0.89) (0.66) (0.86) (1.10) (1.54) (1.17) (1.04)
Free Cash Flow per Share
11.68 8.60 10.63 8.02 8.74 7.84 5.57 7.16 5.03 4.82
Cash per Share
1.92 2.03 2.03 2.84 5.16 3.61 2.63 1.65 1.57 1.18
Shareholders Equity per Share
53.77 51.28 45.51 39.81 37.17 30.46 27.51 25.03 20.08 14.92
Interest Debt per Share
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Book value per Share
53.77 51.28 45.51 39.81 37.17 30.46 27.51 25.03 20.08 14.92
Free Cash Flow
661.42 491.86 606.80 461.98 507.79 452.73 319.93 415.31 289.20 275.08
Working Capital
484.59 746.56 647.22 298.77 719.44 657.52 533.57 533.82 240.63 414.03
Capital Expenditures
(57.75) (64.33) (34.48) (51.15) (38.14) (49.69) (62.96) (89.33) (67.55) (59.55)
Net Current Asset Value
(1,631.26) (1,793.74) (1,424.40) (393.03) (466.99) (895.05) (924.21) (1,086.17) (1,370.67) (823.40)
EV/EBIT
21.11 24.15 20.47 19.30 25.30 35.15 20.93 16.59 18.85 17.09
Capex to Sales
0.02 0.02 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.03
Price to Operating Income
18.45 21.03 18.04 18.46 24.43 32.55 18.65 14.15 15.63 14.71
Other line items
Depreciation/Fixed assets
0.29 0.25 0.28 0.28 0.29 0.32 0.28 0.28 0.26 0.26
Cash ROIC
12.83% 9.34% 13.60% 14.41% 15.43% 14.68% 10.71% 14.47% 10.19% 14.41%
Accounts Receivable Turnover
4.72 4.54 4.66 5.05 4.91 4.23 4.29 4.53 4.43 4.42
Accounts Payable Turnover
11.44 11.79 11.70 12.19 12.77 12.69 11.88 12.01 11.51 11.38
Inventory Turnover
2.72 2.58 2.87 3.28 3.44 3.54 3.66 3.85 3.83 3.66
Average Days of Payables
35.28 29.67 32.25 31.14 32.24 26.14 31.01 29.96 33.84 33.63
Days of Inventory on Hand
129.69 144.61 137.96 120.25 115.04 102.07 103.22 94.80 103.98 98.63
Average Receivables
591.25 592.77 564.10 513.35 480.63 501.32 511.09 498.26 466.82 409.06
Average Payables
109.42 102.08 102.80 95.48 81.32 78.04 84.36 84.80 80.57 71.68
Average Inventory
460.87 465.86 419.09 355.30 302.11 280.22 273.94 264.37 242.31 223.02
Average Assets
5,959.32 5,626.37 4,536.07 3,805.67 3,732.81 3,595.55 3,468.73 3,417.78 2,917.56 2,390.51
Average Common Equity
2,987.88 2,765.13 2,446.22 2,226.75 1,959.06 1,670.02 1,515.89 1,303.12 1,003.55 755.81

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