Industrials
Live Price
Offline$324.54
+0.77% today
1Y Change
-4.08%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Kadant Inc. (KAI) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $3.30B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $324.54 and down 4.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -0.1%, EPS growth of -8.9%, a dividend yield of 0.5%. What stands out right now is revenue -0.1%, EPS -8.9%, free cash flow +14.9% with operating margin 14.9% and ROIC 6.9%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.5%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 32.3 and price/sales 3.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines KAI price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
KAI is 24.94 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.
KAI had 21.86 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
KAI beat SPY in 0 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 2.
KAI
-4.08%
Normalized return
SPY
+20.86%
S&P 500
Excess Return
-24.94 pts
Relative to SPY
KAI Max Drawdown
-30.99%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for KAI and SPY.
| Year | KAI | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +6.32% | +6.71% | -0.39 pts | SPY |
| 2025 | -6.94% | +11.19% | -18.13 pts | SPY |
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