Kadant (KAI) Q3 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Adjusted EPS
- $3.64
- Estimate
- $2.86
- Surprise
- +27.4%
- Score today
- 5.7/10
Revenue for this quarter isn’t shown: the reported figure hasn’t cleared TrendMatrix’s freshness and sanity checks yet, and consensus revenue isn’t tracked. EPS above is the available figure.
How the report landed
Kadant (KAI) beat the $2.86 estimate with adjusted EPS of $3.64 — a large 27.4% upside surprise.
Coverage in the report window
- Kadant Sees Q4 Adj EPS $2.67-$2.82 vs $3.39 Est; Sees Sales $287.000M-$302.000M vs $302.389M Est — benzinga, 2026-11-03
- Kadant Sees Q4 GAAP EPS $2.01-$2.16 vs $2.77 Est — benzinga, 2026-11-03
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates KAI Sell at 5.7/10; no pre/post engine snapshot brackets this report.
4 of the last 4 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's +27.4% surprise compares with a +21.0% four-quarter average.
What supports the rating
- Strong earnings beat streak (4/4)
- Strong growth profile
What argues against it
- Thin upside margin: 7.5%
- Sector modifier (Industrials): -0.7
- Below 200-MA, MA slope -1.4%/30d (confirmed downtrend)
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $282.79
- Price target
- $303.88
- Stop
- $265.27
- Upside to target
- +7.5%
- Reward-to-risk
- 0.7:1
The stock trades at 30.4× trailing but 20.9× forward earnings — consensus estimates already build in a substantial earnings recovery.
Risk check: RSI 72 — a level conventionally read as overbought; gains at these levels often lean on momentum; trading volume is running 1.6× its average — elevated turnover around the report window.
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-11-04 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
KAI at TrendMatrix's latest read
Industrial quarters are order-book stories — backlog and book-to-bill color how the market reads the reported number.
- Industry
- Specialty Industrial Machinery
- Market cap
- $3.34B
- P/E (fwd)
- 20.9
- P/E (ttm)
- 30.4
- 52-week range
- $244.87–$354.07
- Off 52-week high
- 20.1%
- RSI (14)
- 72
- Volume vs avg
- 1.59×
- Score today
- 5.7/10