IDEX (NYSE:IEX) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

IDEX (NYSE:IEX) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.600-1.650 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 2.030. The company issued revenue guidance of -. IDEX also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 8.100-8.450 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

IEX has been the topic of several recent research reports. Royal Bank of Canada lowered their price objective on shares of IDEX from $256.00 to $245.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. Citigroup dropped their price target on IDEX from $269.00 to $267.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 13th. Robert W. Baird decreased their price target on shares of IDEX from $245.00 to $241.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, October 31st. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus boosted their target price on IDEX from $244.00 to $256.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 11th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, IDEX presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $241.00.

IDEX Price Performance

NYSE:IEX traded up $0.40 on Thursday, reaching $197.98. The stock had a trading volume of 519,545 shares, compared to its average volume of 486,140. The company has a quick ratio of 2.11, a current ratio of 2.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.54. IDEX has a 1-year low of $189.51 and a 1-year high of $246.36. The company has a market capitalization of $14.99 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.21 and a beta of 0.97. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $217.63 and a 200-day moving average price of $212.00.

IDEX (NYSE:IEX) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.03 by $0.01. IDEX had a return on equity of 15.92% and a net margin of 15.35%. Research analysts forecast that IDEX will post 7.88 EPS for the current year.

IDEX Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 17th were given a dividend of $0.69 per share. This represents a $2.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.39%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, January 17th. IDEX’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 42.72%.

About IDEX

IDEX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides applied solutions worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT), Health & Science Technologies (HST), and Fire & Safety/Diversified Products (FSDP). The FMT segment designs, produces, and distributes positive displacement pumps, valves, small volume provers, flow meters, injectors, and other fluid-handling pump modules and systems, as well as flow monitoring and other services for the food, chemical, general industrial, water and wastewater, agricultural, and energy industries.