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Kadant Inc's Competitiveness

Name: Kadant Inc Competitors and Peer Comparison
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A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of Kadant Inc (KAI) 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 Q2 2026

Competitors Tracked

Publicly traded peers

Peer Group Market Share

100.00 %

vs 100.00 % a year ago

Revenue Growth Y/Y

22.57 %

Q2 2026

Net Margin

10.50 %

Q2 2026

Key Findings: Kadant Inc vs Its Competitors

TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 1,152M vs -M combined for tracked competitors (100.0% combined share).
Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is accelerating (+8.6% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
Scale: Kadant Inc ranks #42 of 143 companies by market capitalization in the Industrial Machinery and Components industry, holding 0.1% of industry market cap.
Peer revenue share: Kadant 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).

KAI Sales vs. its Competitors, Q2 2026

Kadant 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 22.6% for Kadant Inc. Kadant Inc's share of combined industry revenue moved from 0.21% to 0.23%, a gain of 0.02 percentage points.

Kadant 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
Kadant Inc	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Similar-Size Competitors (10)
Similar Growth & Profitability (8)	100.00 % (8 of 8)	100.00 % (8 of 8)	100.00 % (8 of 8)	12.50 % (1 of 8)

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.

KAI Stock Performance relative to its Competitors

KAI Competitors (weighted) Percent change over the selected range

Kadant 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
(7 of 10)

Similar Growth & Profitability
(3 of 8)

Entity	TTM Share Price Return (group: median)	vs U.S.A. 500
Kadant Inc	-10.20 %	Underperformed
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.

KAI Stock Performance relative to Similar-Size Competitors

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

KAI Stock Performance relative to Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors

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

Kadant Inc's Comment on Competition and Industry Peers

The company operates in three main segments: Flow Control, Industrial Processing, and Material Handling. In the Flow Control segment, it faces several global and numerous local competitors. The Industrial Processing segment involves competition with a limited number of global and regional companies in the forest products and fiber processing equipment markets. In the Material Handling segment, competitors include numerous global, regional, and local firms for conveying and vibratory equipment, as well as strong regional competitors for baling equipment and fiber-based granules. The company emphasizes technical expertise, product innovation, and product performance, supported by its reputation for high-performance, high-reliability products and extensive process knowledge and application expertise. A significant portion of its business comes from a worldwide customer base, supported by a global presence and local support.

Kadant 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
Kadant Inc	Industrial Processing 43.71 %	Flow Control 35.03 %	Material Handling Systems 21.26 %

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).