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Gorman-Rupp CompanyGRCCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Industrials›Industrial Machinery

Makes centrifugal, rotary gear and other pumps for water, wastewater, construction, industrial and fire/rescue markets.

Momentum weak 30
Mkt cap
$1.79B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
79%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$12.6M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
21.5×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+3.6 pp
WACC 10.5%
Hurdle
-3 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
84 days
29 Jan 2027
Close · USD$67.76
1D-0.5%
1W-5.8%
1M-7.2%
3M-17.1%
6M-12.3%
YTD+41.9%
1Y+49.3%
ATR %3.9%
Beta1.29
52w lowhigh27.0% off high

What Gorman-Rupp does

Makes centrifugal, rotary gear and other pumps for water, wastewater, construction, industrial and fire/rescue markets.

Sells pumps mostly through independent distributors to utilities, contractors and industrial users, with replacement parts adding repeat sales from the installed base. The 2022 purchase of Fill-Rite added fuel-transfer pumps as a new category.

Products and services

  • Water/wastewater pumps
  • Construction/industrial pumps
  • Fire/rescue and military pumps

Customers

  • Municipal utilities
  • Construction/industrial distributors
  • Fire/rescue and military

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Industrial machinery
  • Pump manufacturing
  • Distributor and OEM sales

What could go right

  • Water infrastructure investment
  • Global distribution expansion

What could go wrong

  • Construction/industrial capex cyclicality
  • Metals input cost swings

Moat: narrow (brand, distribution, installed base). Long operating history and broad distributor network in a fragmented pump manufacturing industry.

Headquarters: Mansfield, Ohio, United States · Founded: 1933 · Employees: 1,415

Named competitors

Gorman-Rupp at a glance

Size Gorman-Rupp (GRC) is a United States Industrials company (Industrial Machinery) with a market value of $1.79B, the 1871st largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $67.76 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 12.3%, against -12.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 11th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 6.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +12.4%); the operating margin is 16.1% (peer median 8.2%).

Valuation It trades at 21.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.1× (9th most expensive of 19).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 12% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +14%, so the hurdle is -3 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.6 points above its cost of capital (10.5% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 2.8% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 29 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026GRC 87Peer median 86
Six months, rebased to 100: Gorman-Rupp against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Gorman-Rupp financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$722M$682M$660M$660M$521M
Revenue growth—+3%0%+27%—
Gross profit$223M$197M$192M$184M$123M
EBITDA$145M$126M$118M$116M$68.4M
Net income$73.7M$53.0M$40.1M$35.0M$11.2M
Free cash flow$110M$88.9M$55.5M$77.4M-$4.30M
Capital expenditure$19.5M$17.4M$14.3M$20.8M$18.0M
Total debt$250M$328M$387M$425M$439M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Gorman-Rupp competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-40%-20%0%+20%-30%-20%-10%0%INOXINDIA300070688257002011KMT688543SYSR600416300457002534688306301599ELGIEQUIP61360026393009903167FANATS6371GRC6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Gorman-Rupp is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%0×200×400×INOXINDIA300070688257002011KMT688543SYSR60041630045768830661363009903167GRCRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Gorman-Rupp is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+10%+20%+30%+40%0%20%40%INOXINDIA300070002011SYSR300457002534688306301599ELGIEQUIP61363009903167FANATSGRCGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Gorman-Rupp is the large dot.

Gorman-Rupp competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (GRC vs XYL vs SUN.SW vs FLS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Gorman-Rupp GRC$1.79B-12%+6%16%21.5×11.8%
Xylem XYL$22.4B-14%+2%16%17.4×12.1%
Sulzer SUN.SW$7.39B+23%-3%13%17.9×-1.4%
Flowserve FLS$10.2B+13%0%14%17.8×15.0%

How Gorman-Rupp compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Gorman-Rupp against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureGRCPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-7.2%-7.9%10th highest of 21
6-month return-12.3%-12.5%11th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-27.0%-34.1%9th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+6.5%+12.4%6th lowest of 21
Operating margin16.1%8.2%7th highest of 21
Forward P/E21.5×19.1×9th most expensive of 19
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)11.8%17.0%6th least demanding of 16
Growth delivered (Del g)+14.4%+12.2%7th highest of 16
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-2.6 pp+5.5 pp7th least demanding of 16
ROIC minus cost of capital+3.6 pp+1.6 pp8th highest of 21
EV / EBITDA13.6×11.8×5th most expensive of 11
Net debt / EBITDA1.3×-0.1×3rd most indebted of 11

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Gorman-Rupp GRCUnited States$1.79B-12%+6%16%21.5×11.8%+14.4%
INOX India INOXINDIA.NSIndia$1.79B+20%+23%18%47.3×37.9%+21.8%
Beijing OriginWater Technology 300070.SZChina$1.78B-16%-10%5%54.1×17.0%-4.1%
Shareate Tools 688257.SSChina$1.78B-42%+69%25%11.4×n/an/a
Zhejiang Dun'an Artificial Environment 002011.SZChina$1.81B-4%+8%8%11.4×-0.4%+12.2%
Kennametal KMTUnited States$1.76B-36%+32%31%8.9×n/an/a
Jiangxi Guoke Defence 688543.SSChina$1.83B-7%+2%16%42.7×n/an/a
Systemair SYSR.STSweden$1.83B+16%+3%9%18.6×13.4%+8.0%
Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing 600416.SSChina$1.83B-33%-3%-2%414.0×n/an/a
Shenzhen Yinghe Technology 300457.SZChina$1.84B-34%+27%6%18.6×11.4%+31.7%
Xizi Clean Energy Equipment Manufacturing 002534.SZChina$1.74B-19%-2%3%44.5×25.7%+3.1%
Ningbo PIA Automation 688306.SSChina$1.74B+3%+7%4%190.6×35.2%+8.7%
Wuxi Rich Intelligent Equipment 301599.SZChina$1.87B-54%+9%13%n/a31.2%+9.2%
ELGI Equipments ELGIEQUIP.NSIndia$1.87B-1%+16%13%35.0×30.6%+15.5%
OSG 6136.TJapan$1.88B-2%+20%18%11.4×1.7%+9.0%
Fujian Snowman 002639.SZChina$1.70B-18%+9%1%n/an/an/a
Sanhe Tongfei Refrigeration 300990.SZChina$1.69B-18%+23%8%29.9×31.4%+36.2%
Ta Liang Technology 3167.TWTaiwan$1.89B-9%+103%23%19.6×31.8%+15.9%
Volution FAN.LUnited Kingdom$1.68B+7%+16%20%15.7×13.7%+12.2%
ATS ATS.TOCanada$1.68B-49%+7%6%15.9×8.7%+15.8%
Tsubakimoto Chain 6371.TJapan$1.68B+7%+20%8%10.3×2.0%+8.9%

Questions

Who are Gorman-Rupp's main competitors?
Named competitors: Xylem (XYL), Sulzer (SUN.SW), Flowserve (FLS), Grundfos (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes INOX India (INOXINDIA.NS), Beijing OriginWater Technology (300070.SZ), Shareate Tools (688257.SS), Zhejiang Dun'an Artificial Environment (002011.SZ), Kennametal (KMT), Jiangxi Guoke Defence (688543.SS).
Is Gorman-Rupp expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 21.5× against a peer median of 19.1×, 9th most expensive of 19 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 12% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +14%, so the hurdle is -3 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Gorman-Rupp stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -12.3% against -12.5% for the median peer; over one year +49.3%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.