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Midera Food Processing, Inc.MFPCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Industrials›Industrial Machinery

Makes food-processing equipment (ovens, mixers, frying systems) for bakery, protein and snack manufacturers, spun off from Middleby.

Mkt cap
$1.92B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
98%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$18.2M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
16.4×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+3.5 pp
WACC 6.2%
Hurdle
-10 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
11 days
17 Nov 2026
Close · USD$42.43
1D+3.6%
1W+5.8%
1M+5.1%
3M-5.3%
6Mn/a
YTDn/a
1Yn/a
ATR %4.9%
52w lowhigh19.3% off high

What Midera Food Processing does

Makes food-processing equipment (ovens, mixers, frying systems) for bakery, protein and snack manufacturers, spun off from Middleby.

Sells ovens, mixers and frying lines as large capital orders to food plants, then earns repeat income from spare parts and service on the machines already installed. It became a standalone company when Middleby split it off.

Products and services

  • Thermal processing/ovens
  • Mixers and make-up lines
  • Frying systems
  • Aftermarket parts/service

Customers

  • Industrial protein producers
  • Bakery/snack manufacturers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Industrial machinery
  • Industrial food processing equipment
  • Equipment sales to protein/bakery/snack…

What could go right

  • Protein/bakery capacity expansion demand
  • Automation adoption in food plants

What could go wrong

  • Food manufacturer capex cyclicality
  • Recently spun-off, limited independent operating history

Moat: narrow (installed base, process know-how, switching costs). Engineered production lines are deeply integrated into customer plants, making replacement costly and slow.

Headquarters: Rosemont, Illinois, United States · Founded: 2025 · Employees: 2,843

Named competitors

  • JBT Marel JBTM
  • GEA Group G1A.DE
  • Buhler private or unlisted
  • Provisur Technologies private or unlisted

Midera Food Processing at a glance

Size Midera Food Processing (MFP) is a United States Industrials company (Industrial Machinery) with a market value of $1.92B, the 1822nd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $42.43 on 6 Nov 2026.

Growth Revenue grew 10.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +10.2%); the operating margin is 14.5% (peer median 12.1%).

Valuation It trades at 16.4× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.4× (5th cheapest of 18).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 1% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +11%, so the hurdle is -10 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.5 points above its cost of capital (6.2% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 4.9% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 17 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Midera Food Processing financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023
Revenuen/a$853M$772M$759M
Revenue growth—+11%+2%—
Gross profitn/a$309M$305M$288M
EBITDAn/a$148M$179M$166M
Net incomen/a$82.7M$122M$120M
Free cash flown/a$60.2M$116M$95.6M
Capital expendituren/a$41.4M$12.9M$16.3M
Total debt$264M$54.6M$26.5Mn/a

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Midera Food Processing competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%0×200×400×603283LMW316761363899ELGIEQUIP601369300457600416LAND688543MFPRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Midera Food Processing is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-10%0%+10%+20%+30%0%20%316761363899ELGIEQUIP3015996135EPAC6013693004576454LANDSYSRMFPGrowth 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. Midera Food Processing is the large dot.

Midera Food Processing competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (MFP vs JBTM vs G1A.DE)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Midera Food Processing MFP$1.92Bn/a+11%14%16.4×0.9%
JBT Marel JBTM$6.66B-8%+20%10%14.2×12.7%
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft G1A.DE$12.6B+25%+4%12%21.0×5.8%

How Midera Food Processing 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.

Midera Food Processing against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureMFPPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+5.1%-3.1%5th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-19.3%-24.9%9th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+10.5%+10.2%11th highest of 21
Operating margin14.5%12.1%9th highest of 21
Forward P/E16.4×19.4×5th cheapest of 18
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)0.9%2.4%6th least demanding of 14
Growth delivered (Del g)+10.5%+9.2%7th highest of 14
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-9.6 pp-6.8 pp6th least demanding of 14
ROIC minus cost of capital+3.5 pp+3.0 pp10th highest of 20
EV / EBITDA14.4×12.3×5th most expensive of 12
Net debt / EBITDA1.4×-0.3×most indebted of 12

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
Midera Food Processing MFPUnited States$1.92Bn/a+11%14%16.4×0.9%+10.5%
Suzhou Secote Precision Electronic 603283.SSChina$1.92B-12%+9%20%20.2×n/an/a
Excelland Robotics (Wuxi) 3231.HKHong Kong$1.91Bn/a+19%-36%n/an/an/a
LMW LMW.NSIndia$1.93B+14%+19%4%55.9×n/an/a
Ta Liang Technology 3167.TWTaiwan$1.89B-9%+103%23%19.6×31.8%+15.9%
OSG 6136.TJapan$1.88B-2%+20%18%11.4×1.7%+9.0%
CIMC Enric 3899.HKHong Kong$1.96B-32%+6%4%10.4×-4.7%+15.6%
ELGI Equipments ELGIEQUIP.NSIndia$1.87B-1%+16%13%35.0×30.6%+15.5%
Wuxi Rich Intelligent Equipment 301599.SZChina$1.87B-54%+9%13%n/a31.2%+9.2%
Makino Milling Machine 6135.TJapan$1.99B+35%+17%12%10.1×-3.2%+17.5%
Enerpac Tool EPACUnited States$1.99B+9%+6%20%18.8×3.8%+4.3%
Kaishan 300257.SZChina$2.00B-56%+12%15%22.0×n/an/a
Xi'an Shaangu Power 601369.SSChina$2.00B-22%-5%7%18.2×-11.1%+3.2%
Shenzhen Yinghe Technology 300457.SZChina$1.84B-34%+27%6%18.6×11.4%+31.7%
Max 6454.TJapan$2.01B+1%+11%18%19.4×2.4%+9.2%
Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing 600416.SSChina$1.83B-33%-3%-2%414.0×n/an/a
Landis+Gyr LAND.SWSwitzerland$2.01B+17%-22%25%21.5×-10.2%-5.7%
Systemair SYSR.STSweden$1.83B+16%+3%9%18.6×13.4%+8.0%
Jiangxi Guoke Defence 688543.SSChina$1.83B-7%+2%16%42.7×n/an/a
Direct Drive Tech 6731.HKHong Kong$2.02Bn/a+253%-38%n/an/an/a
Zhejiang Dun'an Artificial Environment 002011.SZChina$1.81B-4%+8%8%11.4×-0.4%+12.2%

Questions

Who are Midera Food Processing's main competitors?
Named competitors: JBT Marel (JBTM), GEA Group (G1A.DE), Buhler (private or unlisted), Provisur Technologies (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Suzhou Secote Precision Electronic (603283.SS), Excelland Robotics (Wuxi) (3231.HK), LMW (LMW.NS), Ta Liang Technology (3167.TW), OSG (6136.T), CIMC Enric (3899.HK).
Is Midera Food Processing expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 16.4× against a peer median of 19.4×, 5th cheapest of 18 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 1% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +11%, so the hurdle is -10 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

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.