KAI Stock Price, Chart, Stats & News
Kadant Inc. (KAI) is a dividend-paying stock with a current dividend yield of 0.35% as of Jul 15, 2026. It pays $1.04 per share over the trailing twelve months and distributes quarterly. Its dividend has grown at a 7.31% 5-year compound annual rate.
Dividend safety
Dividend coverage looks healthy — KAI pays out about 10% of earnings.
KAI chart
Fundamentals
Gross margin | 45.21% |
Operating margin | 14.95% |
Pretax margin | 13.65% |
Net margin | 9.69% |
Effective tax rate | 27.79% |
ROA | 5.96% |
ROE | 10.90% |
D/E | 0.38x |
Interest coverage ratio | 10.10x |
KAI valuation
P/E | 30.06x |
P/S | 3.26x |
P/B | 3.45x |
P/CF | 19.98x |
P/FCF | 22.21x |
P/OCF | 19.98x |
PEG | -291.10x |
EV multiple | 14.17x |
About
Kadant Inc. supplies technologies and engineered systems worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Flow Control, Industrial Processing, and Material Handling. The Flow Control segment develops, manufactures, and markets fluid-handling systems, equipment, and integrated technologies, such as rotary joints, syphons, Turbulator bars, expansion joints, and engineered steam and condensate systems, as well as doctor systems and holders, doctor blades, cleaning showers and fabric-conditioning systems, forming systems and wear surfaces, and water-filtration systems.
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