Intest
INTT on NYSEAmerican. InTest sells test and process technology solutions to manufacturers in many markets. Market value $189m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Look carefully before going further
Why it could be worth it
Read the warning sign in its own filings
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $1.92 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 255.3 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 12 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 83 of 100. Price score: 13 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$14.47 a share, 105% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $7.07 to $20.00.
Pays no dividend
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $3 million in the past 12 months, $6 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $85m | $117m | $123m | $131m | $114m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 10.0% | 9.2% | 8.5% | 2.6% | -3.3% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.37 | 0.25 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.07 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)4 of 9
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.07× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 16.2% a year
- Buying back its own sharesNo, 14% more shares since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $35 million last quarter, up 26% on a year ago.
- Profit: $474,000, after a loss of $503,000 a year ago.
- It keeps 1 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, after losing 1 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $3 million, down from $10 million.
- 3% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- It has $16 million more cash than debt, up from $9 million a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in 2 of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $30m |
| December 2024 | $37m |
| March 2025 | $27m |
| June 2025 | $28m |
| September 2025 | $26m |
| December 2025 | $33m |
| March 2026 | $34m |
| June 2026 | $35m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $495,000 |
| December 2024 | $2m |
| March 2025 | -$2m |
| June 2025 | -$503,000 |
| September 2025 | -$938,000 |
| December 2025 | $1m |
| March 2026 | $183,000 |
| June 2026 | $474,000 |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 12 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 9 November 2026
Who owns it
2 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 2 last quarter. 90 funds in all.
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royce & AssociatesChuck Royce | $25m | 0.2% | Cut |
| First Eagle Investment ManagementMatthew McLennan | $22m | <0.1% | Added |
Largest holders overall
- Royce & Associates$25mCut
- First Eagle Investment Management$22mAdded
- BlackRock$17mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$9mCut
- Renaissance Technologies$9mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$8mCut
- Acadian Asset Management$5mAdded
- TWO Sigma Investments, LP$5mAdded
- Geode Capital Management$5mAdded
- Pacific Ridge Capital Partners$5mCut
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
2 investors own more than 5%.
- Royce & AssociatesPassive investor11.6%Since 31 December 2024
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investor6.6%Since 30 June 2026
- Vanguard Capital ManagementPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 June 2026
- Thomas A. Satterfield, Jr.Passive investorSold down below 5%Since 31 March 2026
- ASKELADDEN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLCPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 11 April 2025
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Royce & Associates Passive investor | 11.6% | 31 December 2024 | |
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | 6.6% | 30 June 2026 | |
Vanguard Capital Management Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 June 2026 | |
Thomas A. Satterfield, Jr. Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 31 March 2026 | |
ASKELADDEN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 11 April 2025 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 13 March 2026 |
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 $44,640 of shares on the open market. 1 sold $57,767, $57,767 of it under preset trading plans.
- Grant Richard N. Jr.President & CEO, DirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 18 March 2026
- Shares
- 1,636
- Price
- $14.28
- Value
- $23,362
- Grant Richard N. Jr.President & CEO, DirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 11 March 2026
- Shares
- 1,397
- Price
- $14.16
- Value
- $19,782
- Grant Richard N. Jr.President & CEO, DirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 9 March 2026
- Shares
- 1,097
- Price
- $13.33
- Value
- $14,623
- Maginnis Gerald J.DirectorBought
- Date
- 19 November 2025
- Shares
- 6,000
- Price
- $7.44
- Value
- $44,640
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March 2026 | Grant Richard N. Jr. President & CEO, Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 1,636 | $14.28 | $23,362 |
| 11 March 2026 | Grant Richard N. Jr. President & CEO, Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 1,397 | $14.16 | $19,782 |
| 9 March 2026 | Grant Richard N. Jr. President & CEO, Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 1,097 | $13.33 | $14,623 |
| 19 November 2025 | Maginnis Gerald J. Director | Bought | 6,000 | $7.44 | $44,640 |
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 Intest’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 12 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 10 Aug 2026 and 7 later 8-Ks.
Weak checks on its own accounts
SeriousThe 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 CEO and CFO concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this Report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level because of a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, as further described below.”
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As required by Rule 13a-15(b) of the Exchange Act, InTest management, including our CEO and CFO, conducted an evaluation as of the end of the period covered by this Report, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based on that evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this Report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level because of a material weakness in 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
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
- It isn't cheap on profits: 255.3× operating profit.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
Your first deep dive is free.
Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.