Small-cap stocks can be incredibly lucrative investments because their lack of analyst coverage leads to frequent mispricings.
However, these businesses (and their stock prices) often stay small because their subscale operations make it harder to expand their competitive moats.
Let’s dig into the relative performance of Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) and its peers as we unravel the now-completed Q1 professional tools and equipment earnings season.
As the Q1 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the professional tools and equipment industry, including Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ:LECO) and its peers.
Welding and cutting equipment manufacturer ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) announced better-than-expected revenue in Q1 CY2025, but sales fell by 1.7% year on year to $678.1 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.31 per share was 8.6% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
ESAB Corporation (“ESAB” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ESAB), a focused premier industrial compounder, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared an increased quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on July 18, 2025 to shareholders of record as of July 3, 2025.
Welding and cutting equipment manufacturer ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) reported Q1 CY2025 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, but sales fell by 1.7% year on year to $678.1 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.25 per share was 3.6% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
ESAB Corporation (“ESAB” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ESAB), a focused premier industrial compounder, today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2025.
Earnings results often indicate what direction a company will take in the months ahead. With Q4 behind us, let’s have a look at Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) and its peers.
ESAB Corporation (“ESAB” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ESAB), a focused premier industrial compounder, announced today that it will issue a press release providing financial results for the first quarter of 2025 on the morning of Thursday, May 1, 2025. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss these results beginning at 8:00 a.m. Eastern on that day, which will be open to the public by calling +1-888-550-5302 (U.S. callers) and +1-646-960-0685 (International callers) and referencing the conference ID number 4669992 and through webcast via ESAB’s website www.ESABcorporation.com under the “Investors” section.
Investors looking for hidden gems should keep an eye on small-cap stocks because they’re frequently overlooked by Wall Street.
Many opportunities exist in this part of the market, but it is also a high-risk, high-reward environment due to the lack of reliable analyst price targets.
Over the past six months, ESAB has been a great trade. While the S&P 500 was flat, the stock price has climbed by 14.4% to $118.76 per share. This was partly thanks to its solid quarterly results, and the performance may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the professional tools and equipment industry, including Fortive (NYSE:FTV) and its peers.
The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) and the rest of the professional tools and equipment stocks fared in Q4.
ESAB Corporation (“ESAB” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ESAB), a focused premier industrial compounder, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.08 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on April 17, 2025, to shareholders of record as of April 4, 2025.
Lift truck and material handling solutions manufacturer Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY)
will be reporting results tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
