Taylor Devices

TAYD

Industrial - Machinery · Industrials

Price

$54.67

-2.42 (-4.24%)

Market Cap

$176.0M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is curious

A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Share count falling — buybacks

−6.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 3.5M (2021) → 3.3M (2025)

Taylor Devices, Inc. engages in design, development, manufacture, and marketing of shock absorption, rate control, and energy storage devices for use in machinery, equipment, and structures in North America, Asia, and internationally. Its products include seismic dampers that are designed to mitigate the effects of earthquakes on structures; Fluidicshoks, which are compact shock absorbers primarily used in defense, aerospace, and commercial industries; and crane and industrial buffers, which are

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+5.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+23.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

R&D Spend

$444,000/ year

↑ Rising (+14% vs prior year)

1.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D investment increasing — building for the future

Insider Activity

2.5%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$3M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

Taylor Devices is growing revenue at 6% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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Quality

Gross Margin

40.2%

Healthy — 40.2% gross margin

Operating Margin

20.7%

Excellent — 20.7% operating margin

ROCE

3.3%

Weak — 3.3% 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

+28.3%

Fast-growing sales (28.3% YoY)

EPS YoY

+29.6%

Earnings growing fast (29.6% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency

6/8 quarters

Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

173%

Turns 173% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

28.9%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (28.9%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Interest Cover

100.00x

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Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

16.9x

Fair value — P/E 16.9

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward

+2.1

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow — slightly cheaper on forward P/E

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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