Exponent Inc. EXPO

What this company does

Exponent provides science and engineering consulting services to address complex problems, drawing on an interdisciplinary team of scientists, physicians, engineers and business consultants working across more than 90 technical disciplines. It operates 17 practices organized into two reportable operating segments, Engineering and Other Scientific and Environmental and Health. As of January 2, 2026, it employed 1,212 full-time, part-time and intermittent employees, including 949 engineering and scientific staff, 62 technical support staff and 201 administrative and support staff. Its staff includes 922 employees with advanced degrees, of which 731 have achieved doctorate degrees. During 2025, it provided services representing approximately 21%, 20%, 16% and 11% of revenues to clients in the consumer products industry, energy and utilities industries, transportation industry and chemical industry, respectively. The history of Exponent, Inc. goes back to 1967, with the founding of the partnership Failure Analysis Associates, which was incorporated the following year in California and reincorporated in Delaware as Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. in 1988, and The Failure Group, Inc. was organized in 1989 as a holding company for Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. before changing its name to Exponent, Inc. in 1998.

Written from the business description in EXPONENT INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.