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Franklin Electric Co. Inc. FELE

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
6 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$2.1B
▲ 5.4% YoY
$147.1M
▼ 18.4% YoY
$193.5M
▼ 11.9% YoY

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

In brief

What this company does

The Company designs, manufactures and distributes water and fuel pumping systems, composed primarily of submersible motors, pumps, electronic controls, water treatment systems, and related parts and equipment. The Company reported 2025 revenue of approximately $2.1 billion. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 6,500 employees. The Company's business consists of three reportable segments based on the principal end market served: Water Systems, Energy Systems, and Distribution. The Water Systems segment designs, manufactures and sells motors, pumps, drives, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment primarily for use in groundwater, water transfer and wastewater. The Energy Systems segment designs, manufactures and sells pumps, motors, pipe, sumps, fittings, vapor recovery components, electronic controls, monitoring devices and related parts and equipment primarily for use in energy system applications. The Distribution segment operates as a collection of wholly owned groundwater distributors known as the Headwater Companies. Franklin Electric Co., Inc. is an Indiana corporation founded in 1944 and incorporated in 1946.

Written from the business description in FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.1 · Net income 0.1
1B2B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+1.4%
+11.3%
+8.7%
+7.6%
−7.7%
+7.9%
+7.3%
+9.3%
−6.7%
+8.5%
+7.9%
+13.4%
+10.8%
+41.9%
+35.8%
+12.4%
+19.5%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +11.3% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew slower: net income at +7.9%, earnings per share at +8.5%.

The share count fell from 0.05B to 0.04B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

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

7 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 12.6% · Net 7.0%
5%10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 11.4%
5%10%15%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin35.5%
Operating margin12.6%
Net margin7.0%
EBITDAUSD 331.9M

Each USD of equity produced 11 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 210.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 193.5
100M200M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 50.0 · Net buybacks 160.3
100M200MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 50.0M
Net buybacksUSD 160.3M
Share of profit143.0%
Consecutive raises6 years (since the 2013 share-count change)

USD 50.0M in dividends and USD 160.3M in buybacks — 143% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 1.9B
EquityUSD 1.3B
CashUSD 99.7M
Gross debtUSD 167.0M
Net debtUSD 67.3M
Current ratio2.79×

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—not applicable◌not available in our data
FELE, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B2.12.02.12.01.71.21.31.31.10.90.91.01.00.90.80.70.60.7
Operating income $B0.30.20.30.30.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.1
EBITDA $B0.30.30.30.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.20.10.10.10.10.1
Income tax $B0.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.10.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.20.20.30.10.10.20.20.10.00.10.10.00.00.00.10.10.10.0
EPS, diluted $3.223.864.113.973.252.142.032.231.651.651.501.411.681.731.331.651.001.90
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌0.580.470.420.400.380.350.300.280.270.520.500.50
Payout %342622202230292126242625191720325126
ROE %11.414.617.018.617.112.212.514.811.913.412.611.714.817.214.49.66.0◌
Shares out B0.040.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.020.020.020.02◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 87 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityMotors & Generators
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inIndiana
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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