IDEX CORP
At today's price, IDEX CORP (IEX) is priced for +19.2% 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.
• IDEX is a serial acquirer of small, high-margin niche manufacturers (pumps, fluidics, optics, fire and safety equipment), run as a portfolio of businesses that each dominate a narrow application rather than compete on scale. • The price is the friction point: it pays about 26 times operating income and embeds roughly 20% annual operating-profit growth for five years, while management has guided full-year 2026 organic growth of just 1% to 2% [Source: IDEX Q1 2026 results, 8-K]. • Watch the orde
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649 institutional managers reported holding IEX in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 97 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, PRIMECAP Management, among others. On the short side, 2.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (4.2 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.
IEX has cut its share count 2.2% over the past five years, spending $501.00M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 16 years straight; the current rate is $2.84 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $567.50M in dividends and $351.90M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at IEX over the trailing three years: 2025: 2 buys totaling $501k. 19 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.
IEX's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | +4.8% | -6.4% |
| 2023-10-27 | +2.1% | +13.7% |
| 2024-02-23 | +3.2% | -6.9% |
| 2024-04-25 | -3.9% | -10.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
IEX's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-08 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-09 (items 5.02); 2026-02-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-12-04 (items 5.02, 7.01, 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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