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Kimball Electronics

KE
41
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Price
$23.97
-0.43 (-1.76%)
Market Cap
$576.5M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
41
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

1.1% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 25.3M (2021) → 25.0M (2025)

Kimball Electronics, Inc. provides contract electronics manufacturing services and diversified manufacturing services to customers in the automotive, medical, industrial, and public safety end markets. The company's manufacturing services include design services and support, supply chain services and support, and rapid prototyping and product introduction support services, as well as product design, and process validation and qualification services. Its manufacturing services also comprise indus

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Quality

Gross Margin
7.4%
Thin — 7.4% gross margin
Operating Margin
3.1%
Thin — 3.1% operating margin
ROCE
1.5%
Weak — 1.5% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-8.2%
Shrinking sales (-8.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
+31.1%
Earnings growing fast (31.1% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
662%
Turns 662% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
6.4%
Modest free cash flow (6.4%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.29
Conservative — low debt load (0.29)
Interest Cover
4.50x
Adequate interest coverage (4.5x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
30.0x
Growth-priced — P/E 30.0

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward
+10.7
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (30.0 → 19.3)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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