MARKETS / NASDAQ / PLPC

NASDAQ · WATER, SEWER, PIPELINE, COMM & POWER LINE CONSTRUCTION · MID CAP

Preformed Line Products Co. PLPC

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$669.3M

▲ 12.7% YoY

Net income

$35.3M

▼ 4.9% YoY

Free cash flow

$33.3M

▼ 36.9% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Preformed Line Products Company is an international designer and manufacturer of products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead, ground-mounted and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable, data communication and other similar industries. Its primary products support, protect, connect, terminate and secure cables and wires, and include formed wire solutions, connectors, fiber optic and copper splice closures, solar hardware mounting applications, and electric vehicle charging station foundations. At December 31, 2025, the company had 3,734 employees, the overwhelming majority of which were full-time. The company's products are organized into Energy Products, Communications Products and Special Industries Products, the last of which includes Solar Framing and Electric Vehicle Products and Inspection Services. Energy Products are used for supporting, protecting, terminating and splicing transmission and distribution lines, as well as bolted, welded and compressed connectors for substations. Communications Products include rugged outside plant closures that protect and support wireline and wireless networks, such as fiber optic cable or copper cable, from moisture, environmental hazards and other contaminants. Special Industries Products include hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, plastic products, cable dynamics and vibration solutions, interior and exterior connectors, tools, and urethane solutions.

Written from the business description in PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 5 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 669.3M

Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below

Revenue $M Net income $M

FY2025 · Revenue 669.3 · Net income 35.3

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+1.7%

+7.5%

+6.6%

+4.7%

Net income

−13.4%

+3.4%

+18.1%

+2.9%

EPS, diluted

−13.1%

+3.6%

+19.1%

Dividend / share

+0.4%

+0.1%

Returned to shareholders

+0.2%

−15.9%

−8.8%

−1.5%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.5% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +3.4%, earnings per share at +3.6%.

The share count rose from 0.00B to 0.00B over the period.

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

5 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 8.2% · Net 5.3%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 7.9%

Gross margin31.2%

Operating margin8.2%

Net margin5.3%

Return on assets5.8%

EBITDAUSD 78.2M

Each USD of equity produced 8 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 4.1M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 33.3

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 4.1 · Net buybacks -0.9

Dividends paidUSD 4.1M

Net buybacksUSD -876,000.00

Share of profit11.7%

Consecutive raises1 years

USD 4.1M in dividends — 12% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 653.6M

EquityUSD 475.5M

CashUSD 83.4M

Gross debtUSD 38.3M

Net debtUSD -45.1M

Current ratio3.17×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 17-year record

17 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	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Revenue $B	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
Operating income $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
EBITDA $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
Income tax $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Net income $B	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Free cash flow $B	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0	0.0
EPS, diluted $	7.14	7.50	12.68	10.88	7.19	5.98	4.58	5.21	2.47	2.95	1.24	2.39	3.77	5.45	5.78	4.33	4.35
Dividend / sh $	0.81	0.80	0.80	0.80	·	·	·	0.80	0.80	0.80	0.80	0.80	0.60	1.00	0.80	0.80	0.80
Payout %	12	11	6	8	12	14	18	15	32	27	66	34	11	22	14	19	18
ROE %	7.9	8.8	16.3	16.1	11.7	10.6	9.0	10.9	5.5	6.9	2.9	5.2	8.3	12.9	15.1	11.7	·
Shares out B	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	·

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 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityWater, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction

Listed onNASDAQ

Incorporated inOhio

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2009