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Esco Technologies Inc. ESE

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.1B
▲ 19.2% YoY
$299.2M
▲ 193.7% YoY
$205.6M
▲ 107.1% YoY
In brief

What this company does

ESCO Technologies Inc. provides highly engineered components and systems for aviation, Navy, defense and industrial customers, designs and manufactures radio frequency test and measurement products and systems, and provides diagnostic instruments, software and services to industrial power users and the electric utility and renewable energy industries. As of September 30, 2025, it employed 3,425 persons, including 3,359 full-time employees, 28% of whom were located in 16 offices outside the United States. It classifies its business operations into three segments for financial reporting purposes, treating Corporate activities as a separate segment for certain financial reporting purposes. Its A&D segment, which accounted for approximately 44% of total revenue from continuing operations in 2025 and operates nine facilities in the United States, two in the United Kingdom and one in Mexico, designs and manufactures specialty filtration, fluid control and naval products, including hydraulic filter elements, fluid control devices, precision-tolerance machined components, and naval magnetic signature management systems. Its USG segment, which accounted for approximately 35% of total revenue from continuing operations in 2025 and operates eight facilities in the United States, one in Canada and ten outside North America, consists primarily of Doble Engineering Company, Morgan Schaffer and Altanova, together known as Doble, and NRG, providing diagnostic testing and data management solutions that enable electric power grid operators to assess high-voltage, high-current and high-power delivery equipment. Its Test segment, which accounted for approximately 21% of total revenue from continuing operations in 2025 and operates five facilities in the United States and eight outside the United States, consists primarily of ETS-Lindgren, which designs and manufactures products and systems to measure and control RF energy for research and development, regulatory compliance, and medical and security applications.

Written from the business description in ESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 1 December 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.1 · Net income 0.3
0.4B0.8B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+8.5%
+8.4%
+7.4%
+4.0%
+53.8%
+24.7%
+21.5%
+13.5%
+54.0%
+24.8%
+0.0%
+0.0%
−33.5%
−0.1%
−11.0%
+1.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +8.4% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +24.7%, earnings per share at +24.8%.

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
27 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 15.6% · Net 27.3%
10%20%-2%-4%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 21.5%
10%20%-2%-4%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 22 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 8.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 205.6
80M160M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 8.3 · Net buybacks —
10M20MDividendsNet buybacks201020122014201620182020202220242025

USD 8.3M in dividends — 3% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.4B
EquityUSD 1.5B
CashUSD 101.3M
Gross debtUSD 186.0M
Net debtUSD 84.7M
Current ratio1.35×

Net debt stands at 5% of equity.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.10.90.90.90.70.70.70.70.70.60.50.50.50.50.50.60.60.6
Operating income $B0.20.10.10.10.10.00.1···········
EBITDA $B0.20.20.20.20.10.10.1···········
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.30.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.0−0.00.00.10.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.10.10.00.00.00.10.10.10.1
EPS, diluted $11.553.943.583.162.423.813.103.542.071.771.620.02−0.961.731.951.681.861.78
Dividend / sh $0.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.320.32··
Payout %389101381091518202066−33181614··
ROE %21.58.68.58.06.411.110.212.98.37.77.30.1−4.27.69.18.410.010.0

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityCommunications Equipment, NEC
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inMissouri
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
Data on record since2008

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