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Kadant Inc (KAI) vs NuScale Power Corporation (SMR)

Kadant Inc and NuScale Power Corporation are both Specialty Industrial Machinery companies. Kadant Inc is the larger, with a market value of $3.5B against $1.9B — 1.9× the size. NuScale Power Corporation has negative trailing earnings, so its P/E is not meaningful; Kadant Inc trades at 30.0×. Kadant Inc grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 16.6% against −95.7%. Kadant Inc has the higher net margin (9.81% vs −6,817.0%) and the higher return on invested capital (8.35% vs −8.20%). Across the 19 metrics below, Kadant Inc leads on 15 and NuScale Power Corporation on 4.

Valuation

Metric KAI SMR Specialty Industrial Machinery median
P/E 30.03 n/m 25.64
P/S 2.96 670.81 2.81
P/B 3.42 0.93 2.99
Price to free cash flow 22.03 n/m 23.82
EV/EBITDA 16.71 n/m 15.15
EV/Sales 3.23 284.72 2.77
Earnings yield 3.33% (13.15%) 3.07%
Free cash flow yield 4.54% (33.19%) 3.67%

Profitability

Metric KAI SMR Specialty Industrial Machinery median
Gross margin 44.36% (2.16%) 35.46%
Operating margin 15.43% (9,493.19%) 10.04%
Net margin 9.81% (6,817.00%) 7.24%
Free cash flow margin 0.00% (22,262.22%) 9.04%
Return on equity 0.00% (15.44%) 10.73%
Return on assets 6.88% (12.82%) 4.51%
Return on invested capital 8.35% (8.20%) 5.00%

Growth

Metric KAI SMR Specialty Industrial Machinery median
Revenue growth (TTM) 16.57% (95.73%) 6.59%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (8.76%) (47.62%) 5.97%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 10.63% 120.79% 8.53%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 13.06% 0.00% 6.58%

Health

Metric KAI SMR Specialty Industrial Machinery median
Debt to equity 0.43 0.00 0.33
Current ratio 8.58 24.40 2.08
Net debt to EBITDA 1.21 1.83 1.32

Dividend

Metric KAI SMR Specialty Industrial Machinery median
Dividend yield 0.47% — 1.11%
Payout ratio 0.14 — 0.31

Size

Metric KAI SMR Specialty Industrial Machinery median
Market cap 3.54b 1.88b 2.19b

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