US Equities Analysis

NDSN — Nordson Corporation

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 23.52%
Profit Margins 18.19%
Return on Equity 17.14%
Return on Assets 7.92%
Free Float 0.05B
Dividend Yield 1.09%
Short Int % Utilisation 3.0%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 8.5%
Free Cash Flow 0.57B
EBITDA 19.09 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 17.39B
EV/Revenue 5.99
EV/EBITDA 19.09

Revenue growth of 8.5% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 50.23%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 20.97%
1-Year Price Return* 46.54%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $308.72
52-Week Range $211.50 – $315.68
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $309.83
Market capitalisation $17.26B
Enterprise value proxy $19.25B
Revenue $2.79B
EBIT $701.80M
EBITDA $852.33M
Reported free cash flow $661.12M
Unlevered free cash flow $718.17M
FCF yield 3.83%
EV / EBITDA proxy 22.58x
Net debt / EBITDA 2.33x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.96
Cost of equity 10.03%
Pre-tax cost of debt 4.72%
WACC 9.36%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:46:57.228994 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-10-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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