Kadant (NYSE:KAI) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Kadant (NYSE:KAI) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 9.700-10.050 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 10.540. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.0 billion-$1.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.1 billion. Kadant also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.850-2.050 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Barrington Research raised their target price on Kadant from $360.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 19th.

Kadant Price Performance

KAI stock traded down $6.00 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $358.35. The company had a trading volume of 102,243 shares, compared to its average volume of 90,555. The business has a 50 day moving average of $365.70 and a 200 day moving average of $348.63. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.68 and a beta of 1.29. The company has a current ratio of 2.29, a quick ratio of 1.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37. Kadant has a fifty-two week low of $249.51 and a fifty-two week high of $429.95.

Kadant Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, February 6th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 10th were paid a $0.32 dividend. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, January 10th. Kadant’s dividend payout ratio is currently 13.10%.

Insider Activity at Kadant

In other news, VP Fredrik H. Westerhout sold 600 shares of Kadant stock in a transaction on Monday, November 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $397.25, for a total transaction of $238,350.00. Following the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 1,437 shares in the company, valued at approximately $570,848.25. This trade represents a 29.46 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Thomas C. Leonard sold 152 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $398.21, for a total value of $60,527.92. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 4,250 shares in the company, valued at $1,692,392.50. This represents a 3.45 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 1,052 shares of company stock worth $416,655 over the last quarter. 1.40% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About Kadant

Kadant Inc supplies technologies and engineered systems worldwide. It operates in three segments: Flow Control, Industrial Processing, and Material Handling. The Flow Control segment develops, manufactures, and markets fluid-handling systems and equipment, such as rotary joints, syphons, turbulator bars, expansion joints, and engineered steam and condensate systems; and doctoring, cleaning, and filtration systems and related consumables consisting of doctor systems and holders, doctor blades, cleaning shower and fabric-conditioning systems, forming systems and wear surfaces, and water-filtration systems.