AMETEK, Inc.
At today's price, AMETEK, Inc. (AME) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~5.1 years. 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.
• AMETEK is a serial acquirer of niche instrument and electromechanical businesses, running them at a roughly 26% operating margin under a repeatable playbook it calls the AMETEK Growth Model. • The compounding is the whole thesis: the company completed 15 acquisitions between 2021 and 2025 and targets high-single-digit sales growth and double-digit earnings growth across the cycle, funded by strong cash flow [Source: company FY2025 10-K]. • The first quarter set records, with orders up 23% to $
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1,116 institutional managers reported holding AME in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 85% of the company; the top 10 hold 38%. 115 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 3.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3 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.
AME has cut its share count 0.8% over the past five years, spending $1.04B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 9 years straight; the current rate is $0.56 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $737.18M in dividends and $695.31M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at AME over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 18 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.
AME's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | +0.1% | -5.4% |
| 2023-11-01 | +1.6% | +12.8% |
| 2024-02-23 | +1.3% | -0.4% |
| 2024-05-03 | -4.3% | -0.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AME's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-12 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-26 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-11 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 8.01, 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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