National Presto Industries
NPK on NYSE. National Presto Industries sells cookers, appliances, ammunition, and alarms to consumers, government, and organizations. Market value $1.1bn.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
See Industrials stocks that passed both tests
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $2.49 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
Quality score: 63 of 100. Price score: 52 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$148.96 a share, 63% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $91.28 to $158.17.
Dividend: 0.7% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $26 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $36 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $356m | $322m | $341m | $388m | $504m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 8.4% | 6.9% | 10.3% | 11.6% | 8.0% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive3 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)3 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- DebtUnknown
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 7.4% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $147 million last quarter, up 22% on a year ago.
- Profit: $16 million, up 208% on a year ago.
- It keeps 10 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, down from 11 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $26 million. A year earlier it spent $55 million more than it brought in.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $92m |
| December 2024 | $135m |
| March 2025 | $104m |
| June 2025 | $120m |
| September 2025 | $115m |
| December 2025 | $164m |
| March 2026 | $119m |
| June 2026 | $147m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $8m |
| December 2024 | $21m |
| March 2025 | $8m |
| June 2025 | $5m |
| September 2025 | $5m |
| December 2025 | $15m |
| March 2026 | $7m |
| June 2026 | $16m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 13 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 13 November 2026
Who owns it
1 long-term investor we follow owns it, down from 2 last quarter. 181 funds in all.
- GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli
- Value
- $11m
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli | $11m | <0.1% |
Sold out this quarter
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$122mAdded
- State Street$58mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$39m
- Vanguard Capital Management$28mAdded
- Medina Value Partners$22mAdded
- Advisory Research$20mAdded
- Geode Capital Management$19mAdded
- Renaissance Technologies$15mCut
- J. Goldman & Co LP$15mCut
- Vanguard Portfolio Management$13mAdded
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
3 investors own more than 5%.
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investor11.6%Since 31 March 2025
- STATE STREET CORPORATIONPassive investor5.5%Since 31 March 2026
- Albion River Management LLCPassive investorat least 4.0%−1.1 pts(filed with 2 related holders)Since 11 June 2026
What they said
Item 4 of the Original Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: The response to Item 3 of this Amendment is incorporated herein by reference. The Reporting Persons initially acquired 362,250 shares of Common Stock over which they exercised…
Read the filing - Dimensional Fund Advisors LPPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 31 March 2025
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | 11.6% | 31 March 2025 | |
STATE STREET CORPORATION Passive investor | 5.5% | 31 March 2026 | |
Albion River Management LLC Passive investor | at least 4.0%−1.1 pts (filed with 2 related holders) | 11 June 2026 | What they saidItem 4 of the Original Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: The response to Item 3 of this Amendment is incorporated herein by reference. The Reporting Persons initially acquired 362,250 shares of Common Stock over which they exercised… Read the filing |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 31 March 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
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 2 sold $418,055, $347,975 of it under preset trading plans.
- Peuse David JCFO & TREASURERSold
- Date
- 17 March 2026
- Shares
- 500
- Price
- $140.16
- Value
- $70,080
- LIEBLE RANDY FDirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 11 March 2026
- Shares
- 2,417
- Price
- $143.97
- Value
- $347,975
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2026 | Peuse David J CFO & TREASURER | Sold | 500 | $140.16 | $70,080 |
| 11 March 2026 | LIEBLE RANDY F Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 2,417 | $143.97 | $347,975 |
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.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
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 13 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 14 Aug 2026 and 6 later 8-Ks.
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
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
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