CARLISLE COMPANIES INCORPORATED vs ENPRO INC, two Footwear stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Neither of these belongs in a footwear group: Carlisle makes roofing and building-envelope products, Enpro makes industrial sealing and advanced-surface materials, and both landed here by misclassification. On the merits they diverge sharply. Carlisle earns 43.86% on equity at a 14.57% net margin; Enpro earns 2.78% at 3.7%, its profit temporarily depressed. That depressed base is why Enpro trades at 184.65 times earnings against Carlisle's 22.84 times, a gap that measures trough versus cruise rather than cheap versus dear. Carlisle carries 1.75 turns of debt to Enpro's 0.39, converts more cash at 5.79% against 1.38%, and pays 1.08% in dividends to 0.33%.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CSL | NPO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $330.17 | $331.00 |
| Market cap | $13.6B | $7.1B |
| Sector | Footwear | Footwear |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +8.0% | — |
| P/E | 19.4 | 161.5 |
| P/B | 8.21 | 4.51 |
| P/S | 2.73 | 6.01 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.1 | 28.2 |
| Revenue growth | -0.7% | +10.3% |
| Gross margin | — | 42.9% |
| Operating margin | 17.1% | 14.4% |
| Net margin | 14.6% | 3.7% |
| Return on equity | 43.9% | 2.8% |
| Return on assets | 12.1% | 1.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 17.2% | 6.1% |
| FCF yield | 6.8% | 1.6% |
| Dividend yield | 1.3% | 0.4% |
| Debt / equity | 1.75 | 0.39 |
| Current ratio | 3.38 | 2.20 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.95 | 5.19 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 3 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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