Kadant (KAI)

• Market cap: $3.54B
• 1 day: -2.66%
• 5 days: -6.53%
• 1 month: -12.39%
• 3 months: -3.17%
• 6 months: -15.17%
• Year to date: -13.31%
• 1 year: -9.84%
• 5 years: 153.86%
• 10 years: 629.08%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Specialty Industrial Machinery

About: Kadant Inc. supplies process and engineering equipment for papermaking, recycling, lumber manufacturing, and related industries. The company's three reportable segments are the Flow Control segment which consists of the fluid-handling and doctoring, cleaning, & filtration product lines; the Industrial Processing segment which consists of the wood processing and stock-preparation product lines; and Material handling systems, which provides conveyor-belt equipment for industries such as mining, food processing, and packaging. The company has a geographic presence in the U.S., China, Asia, Germany, Canada, and Others.

Employees: 3,500

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

44% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $2.88M | Put options by funds: $2M

13% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 44 | Existing positions closed: 39

12% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 120 | Existing positions reduced: 107

0% more funds holding

Funds holding: 311 [Q1] → 312 (+1) [Q2]

0.9% less ownership

Funds ownership: 118.12% [Q1] → 117.21% (-0.9%) [Q2]

7% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $4.69B [Q1] → $4.38B (-$305M) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $300
• Avg. target: $340
• High target: $380

2 analyst ratings

• positive: 1 50%
• neutral: 1 50%
• negative: 0 0%

DA Davidson Kurt Yinger	$300	Neutral Maintained	4 Aug 2025
Barrington Research Gary Prestopino	$380	Outperform Reiterated	30 Jul 2025