Ceco Environmental

CECO on Nasdaq. Ceco Environmental sells equipment that cleans air and water to factories and power plants. Market value $4.4bn.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
-0.5%low

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $-0.49 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
6.5%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 6 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 73 of 100. Price score: 0 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$74.96 a share, 75% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $42.82 to $101.24.

Pays no dividend

Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
-0.0
-0.0
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26

Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: a shortfall of $22 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $5 million in the year to December 2025.

Revenue
$324m$423m$545m$558m$774m
Operating margin
3.0%5.2%6.3%6.3%13.7%
Debt to equity
0.340.550.610.900.67
Shares outstanding
0.03bn0.03bn0.03bn0.04bn0.06bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Watch
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)5 of 9
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt0.67× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 19.6% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesNo, 71% more shares since 2021

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $285 million last quarter, up 54% on a year ago.
  • A loss of $35 million, after a profit of $10 million a year ago.
  • It loses 1 cents on each $1 of sales, after keeping 15 cents a year earlier.
  • Over the past 12 months it spent $22 million more cash than it brought in, compared with $17 million a year earlier.
  • 18% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
  • Debt is $667 million more than cash, up from $202 million a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$136m
December 2024$159m
March 2025$177m
June 2025$185m
September 2025$198m
December 2025$215m
March 2026$206m
June 2026$285m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$2m
December 2024$5m
March 2025$36m
June 2025$10m
September 2025$1m
December 2025$3m
March 2026-$398,000
June 2026-$35m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
2 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
9 November 2026

Who owns it

5 long-term investors we follow own it, up from 4 last quarter. 343 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

4 investors own more than 5%.

  • Jason DeZwirek
    at least 11.7%
    (filed with 2 related holders)
    Since 23 February 2026
    What they said

    Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following at the end thereof: On February 23, 2026, the Issuer, Longhorn Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Issuer ("Merger Sub Inc."), and Longhorn Merger Sub…

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  • FMR LLC
    Passive investor
    at least 7.7%+1.5 pts
    (filed with 1 related holder)
    Since 30 June 2026
  • BlackRock, Inc.
    Passive investor
    6.3%
    Since 30 June 2025
  • American Century Investment Management, Inc.
    Passive investor
    at least 3.6%−2.1 pts
    (filed with 2 related holders)
    Since 30 June 2026
  • The Vanguard Group
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 31 December 2025
  • Sold down below 5%
    Since 30 September 2025
  • Sold down below 5%
    Since 30 June 2026
  • Sold down below 5%
    Since 31 March 2025
  • Sold down below 5%
    Since 30 September 2025

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $3m of shares on the open market. 3 sold $10m.

  • DEZWIREK JASON
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    25 June 2026
    Shares
    34,000
    Price
    $97.28
    Value
    $3m
  • DEZWIREK JASON
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    24 June 2026
    Shares
    34,000
    Price
    $96.61
    Value
    $3m
  • Johansson Peter K.
    SVP, Chief Financial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    24 June 2026
    Shares
    30,000
    Price
    $96.49
    Value
    $3m
  • WALLMAN RICHARD F
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    1 June 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $76.85
    Value
    $2m
  • Nanda Munish
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    1 May 2026
    Shares
    11,218
    Price
    $74.00
    Value
    $830,132
  • WALLMAN RICHARD F
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    29 April 2026
    Shares
    15,000
    Price
    $73.43
    Value
    $1m

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

1 serious warning sign in Ceco Environmental’s filings.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 2 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 10 Aug 2026 and 6 later 8-Ks.

  • Weak checks on its own accounts

    Serious

    The company said its checks on its own accounts did not work at the end of its latest quarter. Mistakes could slip into the numbers.

    “Based on that evaluation, our management, including our CEO and CFO, concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2026, due to certain material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, as further described below.”
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    The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on that evaluation, our management, including our CEO and CFO, concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2026, due to certain material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, as further described below.

    From the 10-Q filed 10 August 2026, Part I, Item 4. Controls and Procedures. Read it in the filing

  • Changed auditor

    Worth knowing

    The company changed its auditor (the firm that checks its books) in the last two years.

    “and notified BDO USA, P.C. (“BDO”) of its dismissal as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective as of February 28, 2025.”

    From an 8-K filed 6 March 2025: Change of auditor. Read it in the filing

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