Industrials
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.(LECO)
Live Price
Offline$275.23
+2.10% today
1Y Change
+33.08%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $14.61B
- Revenue Growth
- +5.6%
- EPS Growth
- +14.1%
- Dividend Yield
- 1.2%
Coverage: 247 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (LECO) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $14.61B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $275.23 and up 33.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +5.6%, EPS growth of +14.1%, a dividend yield of 1.2%. What stands out right now is revenue +5.6%, EPS +14.1%, free cash flow +10.7% with operating margin 17.2% and ROIC 19.0%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.2%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 27.1 and price/sales 3.4. Stock Foundry combines LECO price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+5.6% vs +3.6% peer median
Operating Margin
Near sector median
+17.2% vs +16.9% peer median
P/E
Below sector median
27.1 vs 36.7 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 30, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +5.6% and EPS at +14.1%, with operating margin around 17.2%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 1.2%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -1.6% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 30, 2026 | โ | +0.5% | +2.3% | -2.5% |
2026 Feb 12, 2026 | +4.3% | -0.8% | -3.4% | -12.7% |
2025 Oct 30, 2025 | +3.4% | -0.7% | -3.9% | +1.4% |
Benchmark Edge
LECO vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
LECO
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
LECO Max Drawdown
-20.35%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for LECO and SPY.
Company Overview
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.
NASDAQ Global Select
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells welding, cutting, and brazing products worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Americas Welding, International Welding, and The Harris Products Group. It offers welding products, including arc welding power sources, plasma cutters, wire feeding systems, robotic welding packages, integrated automation systems, fume extraction equipment, consumable electrodes, fluxes and welding accessories, and specialty welding consumables and fabrication products. The company's product offering also includes computer numeric controlled plasma and oxy-fuel cutting systems, and regulators and torches used in oxy-fuel welding, cutting, and brazing; and consumables used in the brazing and soldering alloys market. In addition, it is involved in the retail business in the United States. Further, the company manufactures copper and aluminum headers, distributor assemblies, and manifolds for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning sector in the United States and Mexico. The company serves general fabrication, energy and process, automotive and transportation, and construction and infrastructure industries, as well as heavy fabrication, ship building, and maintenance and repair markets. It sells its products directly to users of welding products, as well as through industrial distributors, retailers, and agents. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Leadership
- Steven Hedlund
- IPO Date
- Apr 7, 1994
- Employees
- 12.0k
- Street Address
- 22801 St. Clair Avenue
- Mailing
- Cleveland, OH, 44117
- Region
- Cleveland, OH, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 216 481 8100
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 27.1
- EV/EBITDA
- 19.5
- Price/Sales
- 3.4
- Price/Book
- 9.7
Growth
- Revenue
- +5.6%
- EPS
- +14.1%
- Free Cash Flow
- +10.7%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 36.1%
- Operating Margin
- 17.2%
- Net Margin
- 12.4%
- ROE
- 37.3%
- ROIC
- 19.0%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.98
- Current Ratio
- 1.83
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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