The Gorman-Rupp Company
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $76.22, The Gorman-Rupp Company (GRC) is priced for +23.6% 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 26, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
- No valuation family reaches the $87.53 price. The growth-DCF methods land near $66 to $80, the relative methods near $48 to $66, and the asset and earnings-power methods far below, between $17 and $30, so the price is a premium for quality the standard frames do not capture. - Capital allocation is conservative and shareholder-friendly: Gorman-Rupp has a long record of dividend increases, it paid down $15 million of bank debt in the quarter while funding the $0.19 dividend, and it carries inte
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207 institutional managers reported holding GRC in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 65% of the company; the top 10 hold 37%. 45 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 570k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (4.1 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.
GRC's share count grew 0.9% over the past five years even with $7.03M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 9 years running, raised 8 years straight; the current rate is $0.64 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $52.90M in dividends and $4.07M 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 GRC over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 15 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.
GRC's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-09 | -3.7% | -6.0% |
| 2023-08-01 | +10.1% | -2.7% |
| 2023-10-31 | +2.8% | +18.5% |
| 2024-04-30 | -8.4% | +9.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
GRC's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-24 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-24 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-27 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-23 (items 9.01); 2026-02-06 (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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