ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $62.43, ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP. (AIN) is priced for +14.7% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• The consolidated operating loss of $36.1 million in 2025 hides the actual shape of the business: Machine Clothing, three fifths of revenue, earned about $156 million at the operating line while Engineered Composites lost $145.1 million on program charges. • Those charges were not a one-quarter surprise but a re-forecast of contracts that still have years to run: the filing records ⟦"a loss reserve adjustment of $98.0 million"⟧ representing the estimated full loss over the remaining eight-year
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228 institutional managers reported holding AIN in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 30 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 581k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AIN has cut its share count 12.5% over the past five years, spending $313.62M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 7 years straight; the current rate is $1.09 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $88.48M in dividends and $202.47M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AIN over the trailing three years: 2024: 7 buys totaling $507k; 2025: 2 buys totaling $201k. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AIN's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-27 | -0.4% | -7.0% |
| 2023-11-07 | -2.3% | +6.7% |
| 2024-02-27 | +3.3% | -15.6% |
| 2024-04-30 | -9.0% | +3.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AIN's latest 8-K filings: 2026-09-01 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-08-31 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-08-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-19 (items 5.07); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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