KADANT INC
At today's price, KADANT INC (KAI) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~5.5 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.
• Kadant builds industrial process equipment and, more importantly, the parts and consumables that keep that equipment running, a razor-and-blade model where the recurring aftermarket revenue grew 11% in 2025 even as the lumpier capital-equipment side swung with customer spending. • The defining risk is the cyclicality of those capital projects, which the company says ⟦"tend to be variable and hard to predict"⟧, paired with a balance sheet now carrying acquisition-related debt after the recent K
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307 institutional managers reported holding KAI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 47 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 972k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 8% of shares outstanding (5.7 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.
KAI's share count grew 1.9% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has for 13 years running; the current rate is $1.36 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $41.25M in dividends.
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 KAI over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 14 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.
KAI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-10 | -6.7% | +7.6% |
| 2023-11-09 | +6.8% | +7.0% |
| 2024-02-28 | +12.0% | -21.3% |
| 2024-05-09 | -8.9% | +10.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
KAI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-26 (items 5.07); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-02-23 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-18 (items 2.02, 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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