GENERAC HOLDINGS INC.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $184.82, GENERAC HOLDINGS INC. (GNRC) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~13.6 years. 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 26, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
- No standard valuation family reaches the current price of about $279. The most generous method, an exit-multiple DCF, lands near $210, the peer-multiple method near $135, and the asset and earnings-power methods sit between roughly $30 and $57, so the price is a bet on a future margin and demand profile, not on the trailing numbers. - The first quarter was strong: adjusted EPS of $1.80 beat the $1.33 consensus, net sales rose 12% to $1.06 billion, and management lifted full-year guidance, with
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846 institutional managers reported holding GNRC in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 91% of the company; the top 10 hold 38%. 178 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Invesco, among others. On the short side, 2.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (2.4 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.
GNRC has cut its share count 6.7% over the past five years, spending $997.69M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 2 years running. Cash returned over the past three years: $566k in dividends and $552.17M 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 GNRC over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 16 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.
GNRC's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-10 | +6.1% | +32.0% |
| 2023-08-09 | -27.8% | +1.0% |
| 2023-11-08 | +18.2% | +19.8% |
| 2024-05-08 | -5.4% | +3.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
GNRC's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-12 (items 5.07); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-25 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-11 (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 26, 2026
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