Kennametal Financial Ratios
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Kennametal ratio analysis
Kennametal earned a net margin of 14.5% in FY 2026, up from 4.7% a year earlier. Gross margin was 41.2% compared with a median of 31.1% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 21.8%, meaning Kennametal generated 0.22 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.44 versus 0.46 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.62. At the end of FY 2026, KMT traded at 7.6 times earnings; across the 9 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 7.6 to 61.3, with a median of 17.2. 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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Kennametal financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2026 | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 7.58 | 20.30 | 17.18 | 19.45 | 13.49 | 55.20 | — | 12.76 | 14.83 | 61.34 |
| Price / sales | 1.08 | 0.96 | 0.91 | 1.10 | 0.96 | 1.63 | 1.24 | 1.28 | 1.24 | 1.46 |
| Price / book | 1.63 | 1.47 | 1.50 | 1.80 | 1.54 | 2.26 | 1.91 | 2.28 | 2.45 | 2.96 |
| Gross margin | 41.2% | 30.4% | 30.6% | 31.1% | 32.2% | 30.0% | 28.1% | 35.0% | 34.6% | 31.3% |
| Operating margin | 20.1% | 7.3% | 8.3% | 9.3% | 10.8% | 5.5% | 1.2% | 13.8% | 12.3% | 4.6% |
| Net margin | 14.5% | 4.7% | 5.3% | 5.7% | 7.2% | 3.0% | -0.3% | 10.2% | 8.5% | 2.4% |
| Free cash flow margin | -3.4% | 6.1% | 8.3% | 7.9% | -13.8% | 5.9% | -1.1% | 3.7% | 4.5% | 3.8% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 21.8% | 7.3% | 8.7% | 9.3% | 11.5% | 4.1% | -0.5% | 18.1% | 16.8% | 4.8% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 10.8% | 3.7% | 4.4% | 4.7% | 5.6% | 2.0% | -0.2% | 9.1% | 6.8% | 2.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.44 | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.47 | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.44 | 0.83 | 0.68 |
| Current ratio | 2.62 | 2.46 | 2.41 | 2.37 | 2.11 | 2.30 | 1.60 | 2.58 | 1.74 | 2.41 |
| Revenue growth | 19.8% | -3.9% | -1.5% | 3.3% | 9.3% | -2.3% | -20.6% | 0.3% | 15.0% | -1.9% |
| EPS growth | 268.3% | -12.4% | -6.2% | -15.1% | 164.6% | — | -102.4% | 19.8% | 296.7% | — |