IDEX (NYSE:IEX) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

IDEX (NYSE:IEX) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.600-1.650 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.030. The company issued revenue guidance of -. IDEX also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 8.100-8.450 EPS.

IDEX Price Performance

NYSE IEX traded down $0.41 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $218.45. 602,537 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 441,479. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $218.56 and a 200-day moving average of $211.99. IDEX has a one year low of $189.51 and a one year high of $246.36. The stock has a market cap of $16.54 billion, a PE ratio of 33.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.21 and a beta of 0.97. The company has a current ratio of 2.97, a quick ratio of 2.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.54.

IDEX (NYSE:IEX) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The industrial products company reported $2.04 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.03 by $0.01. IDEX had a return on equity of 15.92% and a net margin of 15.35%. On average, equities research analysts predict that IDEX will post 7.88 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

IDEX Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 17th were given a $0.69 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Friday, January 17th. This represents a $2.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.26%. IDEX’s payout ratio is 42.72%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Citigroup lowered their price target on shares of IDEX from $269.00 to $267.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 13th. Stifel Nicolaus upped their target price on shares of IDEX from $244.00 to $256.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 11th. Royal Bank of Canada raised their price target on IDEX from $248.00 to $258.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, December 6th. Finally, Robert W. Baird dropped their price objective on IDEX from $245.00 to $241.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, October 31st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, IDEX currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $242.86.

About IDEX

IDEX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides applied solutions worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT), Health & Science Technologies (HST), and Fire & Safety/Diversified Products (FSDP). The FMT segment designs, produces, and distributes positive displacement pumps, valves, small volume provers, flow meters, injectors, and other fluid-handling pump modules and systems, as well as flow monitoring and other services for the food, chemical, general industrial, water and wastewater, agricultural, and energy industries.