ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
At today's price, ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP. (AIN) is priced for +21.4% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
First-quarter 2026 revenue rose 7.8 percent to $311.3 million, carried entirely by the aerospace composites segment, where revenue jumped 27.4 percent to $145.4 million on the LEAP engine ramp and defense programs. Trailing earnings are depressed by a large 2025 write-down in the composites segment, so the price is read against mid-cycle margins. On that basis the market is paying about 22 times normalized operating income, implying roughly 21 percent annual operating growth for five years. Th
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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: 2026-05-19 (items 5.07); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-24 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-12-05 (items 7.01); 2025-11-05 (items 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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