FELE Stock Analysis: Electric | NASDAQ
Specialty Industrial Machinery | NASDAQ, USA | Market Cap: 4.645m USD | 12M Return: 11.3% | Charts, Fundamentals & Technical Analysis
Avg Turnover: 30.6M
EPS Trend: 1.2%
Qual. Beats: 1
Rev. Trend: 41.7%
Qual. Beats: 1
Warnings
Tailwinds
No distinct edge detected
Seasonality 10.5 years of data
How good or bad each month usually is (without trend). The score below shows how much you can trust it: 0 = pure chance, >40 gets interesting and >55 is strong.
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: FELE) is a U.S.-based industrial company that designs, manufactures, and distributes water and fuel pumping systems across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the company operates through three business segments: Water Systems, Energy Systems, and Distribution.
The Water Systems segment serves groundwater, water transfer, and wastewater applications across residential, agricultural, municipal, and industrial markets, offering motors, pumps, water treatment systems, monitoring devices, and electronic drives and controls. The Energy Systems segment produces pumps, motors, piping, vapor recovery components, and related equipment for petroleum applications, as well as power reliability systems serving utilities, rail, telecommunications, and data center infrastructure. The Distribution segment supports installing contractors and sells to wholesale, retail, specialty, industrial, and petroleum equipment distributors, as well as oil and utility companies and original equipment manufacturers.
As a mid-cap Industrials company classified within the Industrial Machinery & Supplies & Components sub-industry, Franklin Electrics diversified product portfolio and global geographic footprint position it within critical infrastructure end markets, including water management, energy distribution, and power reliability. Its three-segment structure integrates manufacturing with downstream distribution, allowing the company to serve both OEM customers and the contractor channel.
- Energy Systems benefits from data center power reliability infrastructure spending
- Water Systems revenue tied to US housing starts and farm income
- FX headwinds persist from Latin America and Europe revenue exposure
| Net Income: 150.5m TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue |
| FCF/TA: 0.08 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA -2.08 > 1.0 |
| NWC/Revenue: 29.20% < 20% (prev 23.45%; Δ 5.75% < -1%) |
| CFO/TA 0.11 > 3% & CFO 217.5m > Net Income 150.5m |
| Net Debt (272.4m) to EBITDA (286.8m): 0.95 < 3 |
| Current Ratio: 2.67 > 1.5 & < 3 |
| Outstanding Shares: last quarter (44.7m) vs 12m ago -3.46% < -2% |
| Gross Margin: 35.24% > 18% (prev 35.60%; Δ -0.36% > 0.5%) |
| Asset Turnover: 110.9% > 50% (prev 104.5%; Δ 6.39% > 0%) |
| Interest Coverage Ratio: 18.80 > 6 (EBIT TTM 209.7m / Interest Expense TTM 11.2m) |
| A: 0.32 (Total Current Assets 1.02b - Total Current Liabilities 379.7m) / Total Assets 2.00b |
| B: 0.55 (Retained Earnings 1.09b / Total Assets 2.00b) |
| C: 0.11 (EBIT TTM 209.7m / Avg Total Assets 1.96b) |
| D: 2.05 (Book Value of Equity 1.34b / Total Liabilities 652.0m) |
| Altman-Z'' = 6.75 = AAA |
| DSRI: 1.02 (Receivables 297.9m/271.7m, Revenue 2.18b/2.02b) |
| GMI: 1.01 (GM 35.60% / 35.24%) |
| AQI: 0.95 (AQ_t 0.33 / AQ_t-1 0.35) |
| SGI: 1.08 (Revenue 2.18b / 2.02b) |
| TATA: -0.03 (NI 150.5m - CFO 217.5m) / TA 2.00b) |
| Beneish M = -2.98 (Cap -4..+1) = A |
As of July 09, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 101.26 with a total of 191,786 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by -5.53%, over one month by +1.17%, over three months by +2.23% and over the past year by +11.31%.
Current recommended Stop Loss: 95.80 (which is 5.4% or 2.2 ATR below the current price).
Electric has received a consensus analysts rating of 3.80. Therefore, it is recommended to hold FELE.
- StrongBuy: 2
- Buy: 0
- Hold: 3
- Sell: 0
- StrongSell: 0
| Analysts Target Price | 113.3 | 11.8% |
P/E Trailing = 31.7644
P/E Forward = 22.8833
P/S = 2.1344
P/B = 3.4704
P/EG = 1.9065
Revenue TTM = 2.18b USD
EBIT TTM = 209.7m USD
EBITDA TTM = 286.8m USD
Long Term Debt = 134.4m USD (from longTermDebt, last quarter)
Short Term Debt = 110.1m USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 356.9m USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter) + Leases 66.3m
Net Debt = 272.4m USD (calculated: Debt 356.9m - CCE 84.5m)
Enterprise Value = 4.92b USD (4.65b + Debt 356.9m - CCE 84.5m)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 18.80 (Ebit TTM 209.7m / Interest Expense TTM 11.2m)
EV/FCF = 29.01x (Enterprise Value 4.92b / FCF TTM 169.5m)
FCF Yield = 3.45% (FCF TTM 169.5m / Enterprise Value 4.92b)
FCF Margin = 7.79% (FCF TTM 169.5m / Revenue TTM 2.18b)
Net Margin = 6.91% (Net Income TTM 150.5m / Revenue TTM 2.18b)
Gross Margin = 35.24% ((Revenue TTM 2.18b - Cost of Revenue TTM 1.41b) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = 34.96% (prev 33.83%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 2.46 (Enterprise Value 4.92b / Total Assets 2.00b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 3.13% (Interest Expense 11.2m / Debt 356.9m)
Taxrate = 23.45% (46.6m / 198.6m)
NOPAT = 160.6m (EBIT 209.7m * (1 - 23.45%))
Current Ratio = 2.67 (Total Current Assets 1.02b / Total Current Liabilities 379.7m)
Debt / Equity = 0.27 (Debt 356.9m / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 1.34b)
Debt / EBITDA = 0.95 (Net Debt 272.4m / EBITDA 286.8m)
Debt / FCF = 1.61 (Net Debt 272.4m / FCF TTM 169.5m)
Total Stockholder Equity = 1.31b (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 7.67% (Net Income 150.5m / Total Assets 2.00b)
RoE = 11.47% (Net Income TTM 150.5m / Total Stockholder Equity 1.31b)
RoCE = 14.50% (EBIT 209.7m / Capital Employed (Equity 1.31b + L.T.Debt 134.4m))
RoIC = 9.78% (NOPAT 160.6m / Invested Capital 1.64b)
WACC = 8.79% (E(4.65b)/V(5.00b) * Re(9.28%) + D(356.9m)/V(5.00b) * Rd(3.13%) * (1-Tc(0.23)))
Discount Rate = 9.28% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: -73.79 | Cagr: -1.91%
[DCF] Terminal Value 71.47% ; FCFF base≈183.3m ; Y1≈160.7m ; Y5≈129.8m
[DCF] Fair Price = 37.82 (EV 1.94b - Net Debt 272.4m = Equity 1.67b / Shares 44.2m; r=8.79% [WACC]; 5y FCF grow -15.0% → 2.50% )
EPS Correlation: 1.19 | EPS CAGR: 0.04% | SUE: 0.89 | # QB: 1
Revenue Correlation: 41.70 | Revenue CAGR: 1.17% | SUE: 1.04 | # QB: 1
EPS current Quarter (2026-06-30): EPS=1.43 | Chg30d=+0.00% | Revisions=+0% | Analysts=4
EPS next Quarter (2026-09-30): EPS=1.42 | Chg30d=+0.00% | Revisions=-17% | Analysts=4
EPS current Year (2026-12-31): EPS=4.58 | Chg30d=+0.00% | Revisions=+50% | GrowthEPS=+10.8% | GrowthRev=+4.6%
EPS next Year (2027-12-31): EPS=5.08 | Chg30d=+0.00% | Revisions=-17% | GrowthEPS=+10.8% | GrowthRev=+4.4%
[Analyst] Revisions Ratio: +7% (up=6, down=5)