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INDUSTRIAL INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASUREMENT, DISPLAY, AND CONTROL · SMALL CAP

Electro Sensors Inc. ELSE

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$10.1M
▲ 8.2% YoY
$306,000
▼ 31.4% YoY
$597,000
▲ 665.4% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Electro-Sensors, Inc. (“we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” or “ESI”) manufactures and sells industrial production monitoring and process control systems. ESI was incorporated in Minnesota in July 1968. We manufacture a complete line of monitoring and control systems for a wide range of industrial machine applications. We offer the Electro-Sentry 1TM and Electro-Sentry 16TM hazard monitoring systems, which integrate our sensors for monitoring temperature, belt alignment, and shaft speed with programmable control logic to create a complete hazard monitoring system. These systems enable our customers to locate which part of their material handling system is operating incorrectly, typically in less than ten seconds. In 2025, we shipped product to 21 countries, including sales through distributors in the following countries; Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, United Kingdom, Egypt, India, Australia, China, the Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. We sell our products under the Electro-Sensors, Inc. brand as a range of products from simple sensors to complex integrated monitoring systems.

Written from the business description in Electro-Sensors, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 30 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 10.1M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 10.1 · Net income 0.3
5M10M
201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+4.0%
+5.9%
+2.9%
+3.8%
+45.2%
−12.9%
−3.6%
+44.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.9% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

3 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 0.0% · Net 3.0%
5%10%15%-1%-2%
201020172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 2.1%
5%10%
201020172025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 2 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

·
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $
FY2025 · FCF 597000.0
250000.0500000.0-150000.0-300000.0
201020172025
Net buybacks $ Dividends $
FY2014 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks ·
200000400000
20102011201220132014

Total assetsUSD 15.7M
EquityUSD 14.8M
CashUSD 10.5M
Current ratio16.22×

Equity funds 94% of total assets.

The 16-year record

16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
ELSE, 16-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Operating income $B0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Income tax $B0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $0.090.130.080.030.12−0.040.060.000.090.060.360.300.200.310.160.15
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.000.080.160.160.16
Payout %———————————0395099102
ROE %2.13.22.00.83.2−1.01.5−0.12.41.710.39.66.310.05.35.2
Shares out B0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 79 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of the 16 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Three checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2010. Three checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2010.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityIndustrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, and Control
Listed onnot stated in the filings
Incorporated inMinnesota
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2010

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