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Kennametal Inc's Competitiveness

Name: Kennametal Inc Competitors and Peer Comparison
Creator: CSIMarket
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A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of Kennametal Inc (KMT) against its publicly traded competitors: sales growth, net income, profitability, valuation and market share, plus each peer's market capitalization, revenue, income and employees. Free below: the top 5 peers. Subscriber access adds the full competitor list and CSV downloads.

Peer Data As of Q4 2026

Competitors Tracked

Publicly traded peers

Peer Group Market Share

100.00 %

vs 100.00 % a year ago

Revenue Growth Y/Y

42.63 %

Q4 2026

Net Margin

31.15 %

Q4 2026

Key Findings: Kennametal Inc vs Its Competitors

TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 2,357M vs -M combined for tracked competitors (100.0% combined share).
Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is accelerating (+25.0% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
Scale: Kennametal Inc ranks #50 of 143 companies by market capitalization in the Industrial Machinery and Components industry, holding 0.1% of industry market cap.
Peer revenue share: Kennametal Inc accounted for 100.0% of combined revenue among its tracked peer group, up from 100.0% a year earlier.

Every figure above is sourced and cited in detail further down this page (Market Structure, Profitability & Cost Structure, Productivity vs Peers).

KMT Sales vs. its Competitors, Q4 2026

Kennametal Inc generated 100.00 % of the combined sales of its peer group, up from 100.00 % a year earlier.

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For context: the Industrial Machinery and Components industry grew revenue 12.4% year over year, combined, vs 42.6% for Kennametal Inc. Kennametal Inc's share of combined industry revenue moved from 0.42% to 0.53%, a gain of 0.11 percentage points.

Kennametal Inc's Competitor Quality Breadth

Share of each group, trailing 12 months: profitable (net margin > 0), expanding (revenue growth > 0), growing faster than the industry's own median, and financially distressed (Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below).

Entity	Profitable	Expanding	Above Industry Growth	Distressed
Kennametal Inc	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Similar-Size Competitors (10)
Similar Growth & Profitability (8)	100.00 % (8 of 8)	100.00 % (8 of 8)	100.00 % (8 of 8)	0.00 % (0 of 7)

Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Altman Z-Score is not shown here: it is not populated in the underlying data for any company. Percentages are of companies in each group that report the relevant metric, not of the full group size.

KMT Stock Performance relative to its Competitors

KMT Competitors (weighted) Percent change over the selected range

Kennametal Inc's Share Price Performance vs Peer Groups

Trailing 12-month total share price return, and the share of each group that outperformed the U.S.A. 500 over the same period. Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors are the closest peers by combined revenue growth, operating margin and ROIC.

Similar-Size
(3 of 10)

Similar Growth & Profitability
(2 of 8)

Entity	TTM Share Price Return (group: median)	vs U.S.A. 500
Kennametal Inc	50.30 %	Outperformed
Competitors combined (0)	40.4%	63.2%
High-Confidence Competitors (0)	40.4%	63.2%
Similar-Size Competitors (10)	40.4%	63.2%
Similar Growth & Profitability (8)	40.4%	63.2%

Peer Group Share Price Returns

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Source: CSIMarket API (daily market-structure computation). Outperformance is trailing-12-month total return vs the U.S.A. 500 over the same window, not risk-adjusted.

KMT Stock Performance relative to Similar-Size Competitors

KMT Similar-Size Competitors (equal-weighted, 10) Percent change over the selected range

KMT Stock Performance relative to Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors

KMT Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors (equal-weighted, 8) Percent change over the selected range

Kennametal Inc's Comment on Competition and Industry Peers

The company is a global producer of tooling, metal cutting products, specialty wear-resistant components and ceramics, earth cutting tools, and advanced metallurgical powders. It operates in a fragmented industry with several hundred fabricators, toolmakers, and niche specialty coating businesses worldwide. Many competitors run small facilities producing limited tool selections while sourcing cemented tungsten carbide components from original producers such as Kennametal. The company supplies coated solutions and engineered wear-resistant products to both large corporations and smaller niche businesses. The market presents opportunities for consolidation among U.S.-based and international firms and industrial supply distributors. The company competes domestically and internationally with manufacturers and suppliers of metal cutting tools, engineered components, and advanced materials, facing competition from both larger firms with greater financial resources and smaller niche businesses.

Kennametal Inc's Business Segment Mix vs Peers

Revenue by operating segment or division, as named and reported by each company. Segment names are the filer's own and are not standardized across companies. Do not assume a same-named or similarly-named segment is defined identically between two companies. Shares are of each company's own total revenue and are not required to sum to 100% (intersegment revenue, unallocated items).

Company	Largest Segment	2nd Segment	3rd Segment
Kennametal Inc	Metal Cutting 60.40 %	Infrastructure 39.60 %	-

Source: operating segment revenue as reported in each company's SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), via the CSIMarket API, leaf-level reportable segments only (parent roll-up segments are excluded where sub-segments are separately disclosed).