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Enpro Inc.NPOCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Industrials›Industrial Machinery

Makes sealing products and engineered materials for industrial, semiconductor and aerospace customers.

Momentum weak 22
Mkt cap
$5.47B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
99%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$66.8M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
23.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-4.4 pp
WACC 12.4%
Hurdle
+25 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
109 days
23 Feb 2027
Close · USD$258.30
1D+0.4%
1W-4.9%
1M-16.1%
3M-22.3%
6M-16.5%
YTD+20.6%
1Y+13.6%
ATR %5.7%
Beta1.74
52w lowhigh33.8% off high

What Enpro does

Makes sealing products and engineered materials for industrial, semiconductor and aerospace customers.

Sells specialised parts, such as seals for trucks, aircraft and chemical plants, and cleaning and coating services for chipmaking equipment, so it earns per part and per service, with replacement demand giving repeat business. The 2021 purchase of NxEdge made semiconductors a larger share, while older industrial units were sold.

Products and services

  • Sealing products (gaskets, seals)
  • Engineered materials (semiconductor components)
  • Advanced surface technologies

Customers

  • Industrial equipment manufacturers
  • Semiconductor equipment makers
  • Aerospace/defense OEMs

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Industrial machinery
  • Sealing & engineered materials…
  • Supply to…

What could go right

  • Semiconductor capex/equipment demand
  • Industrial/aerospace capex growth

What could go wrong

  • Legacy asbestos litigation liability
  • Semiconductor capex cyclicality

Moat: narrow (IP / patents, customer qualification, process know-how). Specialized sealing/materials qualified into critical industrial and semiconductor-equipment applications.

Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina, US · Founded: 1907 · Employees: 4,000

Named competitors

Enpro at a glance

Size Enpro (NPO) is a United States Industrials company (Industrial Machinery) with a market value of $5.47B, the 1122nd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $258.30 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 16.5%, against -3.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 9th lowest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 16.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +13.1%); the operating margin is 16.2% (peer median 14.3%).

Valuation It trades at 23.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.9× (9th most expensive of 20).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 26% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +1%, so the hurdle is +25 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 4.4 points below its cost of capital (12.4% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 2.4% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 23 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 93NPO 82
Six months, rebased to 100: Enpro against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Enpro financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.29B$1.14B$1.05B$1.06B$1.10B
Revenue growth—+9%-1%-4%—
Gross profit$556M$488M$445M$427M$423M
EBITDA$318M$275M$253M$237M$241M
Net income$62.8M$40.5M$72.9M$11.0M$205M
Free cash flow$183M$159M$134M$174M$76.7M
Capital expenditure$58.1M$48.1M$32.9M$33.9M$29.4M
Total debt$534M$721M$695M$697M$838M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Enpro 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.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-25%0%+25%002472ROR3081MYCRGFESABKGXVALMT64651590WELCORP688188MIDD685699629880AAON603298300776NPO6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Enpro is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%20×40×60×002472ROR3081MYCRGFESABKGX64651590688188MIDD9962AAON300776INDOMIMNPORevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Enpro is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%002472RORMYCRGFESABVALMT6465WELCORP688188MIDD9962603298300776INDOMIMNPOGrowth 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. Enpro is the large dot.

Enpro competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (NPO vs PH vs TREL-B.ST vs SKF-A.ST)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Enpro NPO$5.47B-16%+16%16%23.2×26.1%
Parker Hannifin PH$116B+4%+8%22%24.4×19.0%
Trelleborg TREL-B.ST$10.1B+19%+2%19%22.9×9.6%
SKF SKF-A.ST$12.7B+18%-10%12%16.4×5.8%
Flowserve FLS$10.2B+13%0%14%17.8×15.0%
Entegris ENTG$19.6B-14%+9%19%23.7×26.3%

How Enpro 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.

Enpro against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureNPOPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-16.1%-5.6%7th lowest of 21
6-month return-16.5%-3.9%9th lowest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-33.8%-23.6%9th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+16.4%+13.1%9th highest of 21
Operating margin16.2%14.3%10th highest of 21
Forward P/E23.2×19.9×9th most expensive of 20
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)26.1%11.1%5th most demanding of 17
Growth delivered (Del g)+1.3%+12.3%2nd lowest of 17
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+24.8 pp+0.5 pp3rd most demanding of 17
ROIC minus cost of capital-4.4 pp+5.5 pp3rd lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA18.6×12.6×5th most expensive of 15
Net debt / EBITDA1.4×-0.1×7th most indebted of 16

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
Enpro NPOUnited States$5.47B-16%+16%16%23.2×26.1%+1.3%
Zhejiang Shuanghuan Driveline 002472.SZChina$5.46B+9%+15%15%26.9×11.0%+20.0%
Rotork ROR.LUnited Kingdom$5.40B+65%+2%24%27.9×27.6%+5.2%
LandMark Optoelectronics 3081.TWOTaiwan$5.38B-32%+105%38%54.3×n/an/a
Mycronic MYCR.STSweden$5.57B-4%+17%29%24.9×10.1%+15.6%
Georg Fischer GF.SWSwitzerland$5.65B+32%-20%3%19.9×29.2%-1.2%
ESAB ESABUnited States$5.15B-18%+11%13%14.0×12.7%+7.8%
Kion KGX.DEGermany$5.05B-25%+3%6%10.4×n/an/a
Valmet VALMT.HEFinland$5.97B+30%+3%10%13.8×2.1%+6.8%
HOSHIZAKI 6465.TJapan$4.93B+5%+12%10%17.8×-4.5%+15.3%
Airtac International 1590.TWTaiwan$6.11B-30%+23%33%15.8×5.0%+12.4%
Welspun WELCORP.NSIndia$6.13B+70%+14%12%25.5×24.9%+19.0%
Shanghai BOCHU Electronic Technology 688188.SSChina$6.16B0%+20%44%29.6×18.0%+30.9%
Middleby MIDDUnited States$6.17B+3%-7%17%18.5×6.9%+5.0%
Horiba 6856.TJapan$4.79B-17%+12%17%14.4×11.2%+12.2%
MISUMI 9962.TJapan$6.25B+3%+24%13%17.9×9.3%+7.3%
UBTECH ROBOTICS 9880.HKHong Kong$4.73B-41%+90%-21%n/an/an/a
AAON AAONUnited States$4.72B-59%+54%11%20.7×n/an/a
Hangcha 603298.SSChina$4.71B-12%+7%12%13.3×2.9%+9.1%
Wuhan DR Laser Technology 300776.SZChina$4.69B-24%-23%19%37.9×51.8%+13.6%
INDO-MIM INDOMIM.NSIndia$6.39Bn/a+26%20%60.8×30.3%+15.8%

Questions

Who are Enpro's main competitors?
Named competitors: Parker Hannifin (PH), Freudenberg (private) (private or unlisted), Garlock (private, legacy) (private or unlisted), Trelleborg (TREL-B.ST), SKF (SKF-A.ST), Flowserve (FLS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Zhejiang Shuanghuan Driveline (002472.SZ), Rotork (ROR.L), LandMark Optoelectronics (3081.TWO), Mycronic (MYCR.ST), Georg Fischer (GF.SW), ESAB (ESAB).
Is Enpro expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 23.2× against a peer median of 19.9×, 9th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 26% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +1%, so the hurdle is +25 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Enpro stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -16.5% against -3.9% for the median peer; over one year +13.6%.

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.