ESE · Esco Technologies Inc - Financials
Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.
Income Statement
| Line item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.10B | $1.03B | $956.03M | $857.50M | $715.44M | $732.91M |
| Cost of Revenue | $634.30M | $622.74M | $580.38M | $525.46M | $445.05M | $457.42M |
| Gross Profit | $461.08M | $404.02M | $375.66M | $332.05M | $270.39M | $275.50M |
| R&D | $23.00M | $12.00M | $13.00M | $12.30M | $15.40M | $13.30M |
| SG&A | $234.64M | $224.01M | $217.11M | $195.13M | $167.53M | $159.49M |
| Total Operating Expenses | $942.53M | $896.87M | $837.09M | $751.07M | $634.77M | $693.17M |
| D&A | $75.02M | $55.41M | $50.52M | $48.34M | $42.05M | $41.34M |
| Operating Income | $146.20M | $129.89M | $118.95M | $106.44M | $36.41M | $39.74M |
| Interest Expense | $17.50M | $15.20M | $8.80M | $4.90M | $6.70M | - |
| Income Tax | $36.55M | $28.01M | $26.40M | $24.11M | $17.18M | $14.28M |
| Net Income | $299.22M | $101.88M | $92.55M | $82.32M | $63.50M | $101.98M |
| EPS - Basic | $11.59 | $3.95 | $3.59 | $3.17 | $2.44 | $3.92 |
| EPS - Diluted | $11.55 | $3.94 | $3.58 | $3.16 | $2.42 | $3.90 |
Balance Sheet
| Line item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $101.35M | $65.96M | $41.87M | $97.72M | $56.23M | $52.56M |
| Accounts Receivable | $253.55M | $240.68M | $198.56M | $164.65M | $146.34M | $144.08M |
| Inventory | $217.81M | $209.16M | $184.07M | $162.40M | $147.15M | $136.19M |
| Accounts Payable | $96.53M | $98.37M | $86.97M | $78.75M | $56.67M | $50.52M |
| Current Assets | $688.51M | $668.65M | $581.10M | $572.62M | $466.15M | $446.63M |
| Total Assets | $2.41B | $1.84B | $1.68B | $1.65B | $1.58B | $1.37B |
| Current Liabilities | $508.15M | $349.85M | $314.65M | $318.13M | $277.76M | $256.03M |
| Long-term Debt | $166.00M | $102.00M | $82.00M | $133.00M | $134.00M | $40.00M |
| Total Liabilities | $869.52M | $601.27M | $552.07M | $606.30M | $557.65M | $411.93M |
| Stockholders' Equity | $1.54B | $1.24B | $1.13B | $1.05B | $1.02B | $961.60M |
| Retained Earnings | $1.37B | $1.08B | $989.32M | $905.02M | $830.99M | $778.40M |
Cash Flow
| Line item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $241.94M | $127.54M | $76.89M | $135.28M | $123.14M | $82.28M |
| Investing Cash Flow | ($255.79M) | ($104.64M) | ($52.47M) | ($55.92M) | ($202.44M) | $140.95M |
| Financing Cash Flow | $49.54M | ($773.0K) | ($78.33M) | ($32.12M) | $81.47M | ($236.22M) |
| CapEx | $36.32M | $36.17M | $22.38M | $32.10M | $26.70M | $32.11M |
| Free Cash Flow | $205.62M | $91.38M | $54.51M | $103.17M | $96.43M | $50.17M |
Ratios
| Metric | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profitability | ||||||
| Gross margin | 42.1% | 39.3% | 39.3% | 38.7% | 37.8% | 37.6% |
| Operating margin | 13.3% | 12.7% | 12.4% | 12.4% | 5.1% | 5.4% |
| EBITDA margin | 20.2% | 18.0% | 17.7% | 18.0% | 11.0% | 11.1% |
| Net margin | 27.3% | 9.9% | 9.7% | 9.6% | 8.9% | 13.9% |
| Free cash flow margin | 18.8% | 8.9% | 5.7% | 12.0% | 13.5% | 6.8% |
| FCF / Net income | 0.69 | 0.90 | 0.59 | 1.25 | 1.52 | 0.49 |
| R&D / Revenue | 2.1% | 1.2% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 2.2% | 1.8% |
| SG&A / Revenue | 21.4% | 21.8% | 22.7% | 22.8% | 23.4% | 21.8% |
| Effective tax rate | 10.9% | 21.6% | 22.2% | 22.7% | 21.3% | 12.3% |
| Return on assets | 12.4% | 5.5% | 5.5% | 5.0% | 4.0% | 7.4% |
| Return on equity | 19.4% | 8.2% | 8.2% | 7.9% | 6.2% | 10.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.6% | 7.6% | 7.6% | 7.0% | 2.5% | 3.5% |
| Liquidity | ||||||
| Current ratio | 1.35 | 1.91 | 1.85 | 1.80 | 1.68 | 1.74 |
| Quick ratio | 0.93 | 1.31 | 1.26 | 1.29 | 1.15 | 1.21 |
| Cash ratio | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.31 | 0.20 | 0.21 |
| Leverage | ||||||
| Debt / Equity | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.04 |
| Debt / Assets | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
| Debt / EBITDA | 0.75 | 0.55 | 0.48 | 0.86 | 1.71 | 0.49 |
| Interest coverage | 8.4x | 8.5x | 13.5x | 21.7x | 5.4x | - |
| Equity multiplier | 1.56 | 1.49 | 1.49 | 1.58 | 1.55 | 1.43 |
| Liabilities / Assets | 0.36 | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.37 | 0.35 | 0.30 |
| Efficiency | ||||||
| Asset turnover | 0.45 | 0.56 | 0.57 | 0.52 | 0.45 | 0.53 |
| Inventory turnover | 2.91 | 2.98 | 3.15 | 3.24 | 3.02 | 3.36 |
| Days sales outstanding | 84d | 86d | 76d | 70d | 75d | 72d |
| Days inventory outstanding | 125d | 123d | 116d | 113d | 121d | 109d |
| Days payable outstanding | 56d | 58d | 55d | 55d | 46d | 40d |
| Cash conversion cycle | 154d | 150d | 137d | 128d | 149d | 140d |
| Valuation | ||||||
| P / E | 18.3x | 32.7x | 29.2x | 23.2x | 31.8x | 20.7x |
| P / B | 3.5x | 2.7x | 2.4x | 1.8x | 2.0x | 2.2x |
| P / S | 5.0x | 3.3x | 2.8x | 2.2x | 2.8x | 2.9x |
| EV / EBITDA | 25.0x | 18.2x | 16.2x | 12.6x | 26.7x | 25.8x |
| Growth | ||||||
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 6.7% | 7.4% | 11.5% | 19.9% | -2.4% | 6.9% |
| Revenue CAGR (3y) | 8.5% | 12.8% | 9.3% | 7.7% | 7.8% | 2.2% |
| Revenue CAGR (5y) | 8.4% | 8.4% | 10.8% | 4.6% | 4.6% | 6.4% |
| Gross profit growth (YoY) | 14.1% | 7.5% | 13.1% | 22.8% | -1.9% | 55.5% |
| Operating income growth (YoY) | 12.6% | 9.2% | 11.8% | 192.4% | -8.4% | -61.1% |
| Net income growth (YoY) | 193.7% | 10.1% | 12.4% | 29.6% | -37.7% | 25.8% |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 193.1% | 10.1% | 13.3% | 30.6% | -37.9% | 25.8% |
| EPS CAGR (3y) | 54.0% | 17.6% | -2.8% | 0.6% | -11.9% | 23.5% |
| EPS CAGR (5y) | 24.3% | 4.9% | 0.2% | 8.8% | 6.5% | 19.2% |
| FCF growth (YoY) | 125.0% | 67.6% | -47.2% | 7.0% | 92.2% | -26.2% |
| FCF CAGR (5y) | 32.6% | 6.1% | -5.6% | 22.4% | 9.9% | -1.2% |
| Book value growth (YoY) | 24.5% | 9.4% | 7.9% | 2.8% | 6.0% | 16.4% |
Sales by segment
From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-09-30.
Business segments
$1.10B totalAerospace And Defense$478.19M · 43.7%
Utility Solutions Group$380.00M · 34.7%
RFShielding And Test$237.20M · 21.7%
Geographic
$1.23B totalUS$727.27M · 59.2%
Europe$156.40M · 12.7%
Non Us$132.88M · 10.8%
Asia$111.84M · 9.1%
CA$56.69M · 4.6%
Other1$43.18M · 3.5%
Stability scores
Altman Z′
FY 2025 · bankruptcy risk
1.92
Grey zone
Private-firm variant - uses book equity instead of market cap. > 2.90 safe · 1.23-2.90 grey · < 1.23 distress.
Piotroski F-score
FY 2025 · 9-point quality
5/9
Neutral
- ✓Net income positive
- ✓Operating cash flow positive
- ✓ROA improved YoY
- ✗Cash flow > net income
- ✗Long-term debt decreased
- ✗Current ratio improved
- ✓No share dilution
- ✓Gross margin improved
- ✗Asset turnover improved
Peer comparison
Same SIC group: Communications Equipment, NEC
Comparing ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.
Dividends
$0.32/share trailing 12 months · 0.0% YoY
| Ex-date | Per share |
|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2026 | $0.0800 |
| Jan 2, 2026 | $0.0800 |
| Oct 2, 2025 | $0.0800 |
| Jul 2, 2025 | $0.0800 |
| Apr 2, 2025 | $0.0800 |
| Jan 2, 2025 | $0.0800 |
| Oct 2, 2024 | $0.0800 |
| Jul 3, 2024 | $0.0800 |
| Mar 28, 2024 | $0.0800 |
| Jan 3, 2024 | $0.0800 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | $0.0800 |
| Jul 3, 2023 | $0.0800 |
| Mar 31, 2023 | $0.0800 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | $0.0800 |
| Oct 3, 2022 | $0.0800 |
| Jul 1, 2022 | $0.0800 |
| Apr 1, 2022 | $0.0800 |
| Jan 3, 2022 | $0.0800 |
| Sep 30, 2021 | $0.0800 |
| Jun 30, 2021 | $0.0800 |
| Mar 31, 2021 | $0.0800 |
| Dec 31, 2020 | $0.0800 |
| Sep 30, 2020 | $0.0800 |
| Jul 1, 2020 | $0.0800 |