Kadant Financial Ratios
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Kadant ratio analysis
Kadant earned a net margin of 9.7% in FY 2025, down from 10.6% a year earlier. Gross margin was 45.2% compared with a median of 43.7% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 10.4%, meaning Kadant generated 0.10 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.38 versus 0.34 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.38. At the end of FY 2025, KAI traded at 33.1 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 15.3 to 37.0, with a median of 28.9. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Kadant financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 33.11 | 37.00 | 28.31 | 17.16 | 31.97 | 29.56 | 23.30 | 15.31 | 36.51 | 21.25 |
| Price / sales | 3.20 | 3.91 | 3.42 | 2.29 | 3.39 | 2.55 | 1.69 | 1.42 | 2.14 | 1.61 |
| Price / book | 3.44 | 4.86 | 4.24 | 3.17 | 4.73 | 3.27 | 2.79 | 2.41 | 3.33 | 2.35 |
| Gross margin | 45.2% | 44.3% | 43.5% | 43.1% | 42.9% | 43.7% | 41.7% | 43.9% | 44.9% | 45.5% |
| Operating margin | 14.9% | 16.3% | 17.3% | 18.9% | 14.8% | 12.8% | 12.5% | 14.0% | 12.0% | 11.3% |
| Net margin | 9.7% | 10.6% | 12.1% | 13.4% | 10.7% | 8.7% | 7.4% | 9.5% | 6.0% | 7.7% |
| Free cash flow margin | 14.7% | 12.7% | 14.0% | 8.2% | 19.0% | 13.4% | 12.4% | 7.3% | 9.3% | 10.9% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 10.4% | 13.2% | 15.0% | 18.5% | 14.9% | 11.1% | 12.2% | 16.2% | 9.4% | 11.3% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 6.0% | 7.8% | 9.9% | 10.5% | 7.4% | 6.0% | 5.5% | 8.3% | 4.1% | 6.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.38 | 0.34 | 0.14 | 0.31 | 0.48 | 0.47 | 0.71 | 0.47 | 0.73 | 0.23 |
| Current ratio | 2.38 | 2.31 | 2.05 | 1.95 | 1.73 | 2.15 | 2.04 | 1.96 | 2.01 | 2.33 |
| Revenue growth | -0.1% | 10.0% | 5.9% | 15.0% | 23.9% | -9.9% | 11.2% | 23.1% | 24.4% | 6.2% |
| EPS growth | -8.8% | -4.2% | -4.3% | 43.6% | 51.2% | 5.1% | -14.3% | 92.7% | -4.5% | -7.1% |