The Eastern Company

EML

Manufacturing - Tools & Accessories · Industrials

Price

$25.53

-1.07 (-4.02%)

Market Cap

$154.0M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

−2.9% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 6.3M (2022) → 6.1M (2026)

The Eastern Company designs, manufactures, and sells engineered solutions to industrial markets in the United States and internationally. It offers turnkey returnable packaging solutions that are used in the assembly process of vehicles, aircraft, and durable goods, as well as in the production process of plastic packaging products, packaged consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals; designs and manufactures blow mold tools and injection blow mold tooling products, and 2-step stretch blow molds and re

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Quality

Gross Margin

21.3%

Thin — 21.3% gross margin

Operating Margin

2.3%

Thin — 2.3% operating margin

ROCE

0.8%

Weak — 0.8% 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

-11.4%

Shrinking sales (-11.4% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

EPS Consistency

2/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

362%

Turns 362% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

4.0%

Thin free cash flow (4.0%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.27

Conservative — low debt load (0.27)

Interest Cover

2.90x

Tight — interest eats into profit (2.9x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

26.7x

Growth-priced — P/E 26.7

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

P/E vs Forward

+15.4

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (26.7 → 11.4)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

1.51%

Small dividend — 1.51% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth

+0.0%

Dividend flat

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