Alfa Laval Corporate AB (ALFVF) Stock

About Alfa Laval Corporate AB

Headquartered in Lund, Sweden, and established in 1883, Alfa Laval Corporate AB is a global innovator specializing in critical technologies for heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling. The company's operations are strategically divided into three key segments: Energy, Food & Water, and Marine. Its extensive product portfolio encompasses industrial boilers (oil/gas-fired steam, composite steam), advanced exhaust gas economizers and cleaning systems, and essential ballast water treatment solutions. Furthermore, Alfa Laval delivers a broad spectrum of equipment for process optimization, including sensing and control devices, cleaning validation tools, condition monitoring systems, agitators, powder mixers, and various tank components such as fittings, tubes, nozzles, and covers. The firm also manufactures a comprehensive array of pumps—like centrifugal, rotary lobe, and multiple screw types—alongside an equally diverse selection of valves, spanning from butterfly and control to double seal and safety valves. A cornerstone of its offering is a wide range of heat exchange solutions, including standard, tube-in-tube, shell-and-tube, finned tube air, scraped surface, and various plate heat exchangers, complemented by wet surface and HYAC hybrid air coolers. Rounding out its core technologies are decanters and separation equipment. Alfa Laval's advanced solutions serve a vast clientele across numerous sectors, including energy, utilities, residential, personal care, food & beverage (dairy), marine, transportation, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and water/wastewater management.

Alfa Laval Corporate AB is headquartered in SE.

Alfa Laval Corporate AB (ALFVF) stock trades at $59.50 with a market capitalization of $24.59B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 28.37, price-to-book of 5.01, price-to-sales of 3.36. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $38.80 and $59.50, and currently trades at its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.65%.

On profitability, Alfa Laval Corporate AB generates a return on equity (ROE) of 18.93%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 18.70%, an operating margin of 18.85%, a net profit margin of 11.83%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Alfa Laval Corporate AB reported annual revenue of $69.5B, net profit of $8.3B, revenue has compounded at 10.9% a year over the last five years, profit at 18.4% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.41 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.38, total assets of $97.9B, $7.1B in cash and equivalents.

ALFVF has an average daily trading volume of 19 shares, a beta of 0.79 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.alfalaval.com