Research Analysts Set Expectations for IDEX Q3 Earnings

IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX) – Stock analysts at DA Davidson issued their Q3 2025 EPS estimates for IDEX in a research report issued on Tuesday, August 5th. DA Davidson analyst M. Summerville anticipates that the industrial products company will post earnings of $1.92 per share for the quarter. DA Davidson currently has a “Neutral” rating and a $180.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for IDEX’s current full-year earnings is $8.26 per share. DA Davidson also issued estimates for IDEX’s FY2025 earnings at $7.90 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $8.65 EPS.

IDEX (NYSE:IEX) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, July 30th. The industrial products company reported $2.07 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.00 by $0.07. The firm had revenue of $865.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $858.59 million. IDEX had a return on equity of 15.16% and a net margin of 14.05%. The firm’s revenue was up 7.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $2.06 earnings per share.

A number of other analysts also recently weighed in on IEX. Robert W. Baird set a $215.00 price target on IDEX in a research note on Friday, May 2nd. Oppenheimer decreased their price objective on shares of IDEX from $224.00 to $212.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, July 31st. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their target price on shares of IDEX from $207.00 to $200.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, July 31st. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their price target on IDEX from $238.00 to $204.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, July 31st. Finally, Citigroup raised their price objective on IDEX from $208.00 to $216.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, July 14th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, IDEX presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $205.25.

IDEX Stock Performance

NYSE:IEX opened at $159.75 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $12.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.81, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 1.04. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 3.05 and a quick ratio of 2.13. IDEX has a 1-year low of $153.36 and a 1-year high of $238.22. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $178.22 and its 200 day moving average price is $184.04.

Institutional Trading of IDEX

A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. American Century Companies Inc. lifted its holdings in IDEX by 3.4% in the fourth quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 9,655 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $2,021,000 after acquiring an additional 314 shares during the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC lifted its holdings in IDEX by 13.6% in the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 19,702 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $4,123,000 after purchasing an additional 2,363 shares during the period. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership bought a new position in IDEX in the 4th quarter valued at about $448,000. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC increased its stake in IDEX by 4.2% during the 4th quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 3,128 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $655,000 after buying an additional 127 shares during the period. Finally, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA increased its stake in shares of IDEX by 187.2% during the fourth quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 21,799 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $4,562,000 after acquiring an additional 14,209 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 97.96% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity

In related news, CFO Akhil Mahendra sold 250 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.89, for a total transaction of $45,222.50. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 5,035 shares in the company, valued at approximately $910,781.15. This represents a 4.73% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 0.50% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

IDEX Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 11th were issued a dividend of $0.71 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, July 11th. This represents a $2.84 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.8%. IDEX’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 45.88%.

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.