Alfa Laval AB (publ) (ALFVY) Stock

About Alfa Laval AB (publ)

Alfa Laval AB (publ) is a global company specializing in delivering solutions and equipment for heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling across various industries. Operating through three key divisions—Energy, Food & Water, and Marine—the company offers an extensive product range. This includes diverse boilers, such as oil/gas-fired steam and composite steam units, along with exhaust gas economizers, ballast water treatment systems, and exhaust gas cleaning technologies. Their portfolio also features sensing and control devices, cleaning validation tools, condition monitoring systems, agitators, tanks, powder mixers, fittings, tubes, as well as wall-mounted cleaning nozzles, rotary jets and heads, and tank accessories and covers. Furthermore, Alfa Laval manufactures various pump types, including centrifugal, rotary lobe, three screw, twin screw, and circumferential piston pumps, alongside a wide array of valves like butterfly, control/check, double seal, diaphragm, double seat, regulating, safety, sampling, shutter, single seat, and ball valves. They are also a significant provider of numerous heat exchanger technologies, from tube-in-tube and process shell-and-tube models to finned tube air heat, scraped surface, various plate exchangers, wet surface, and HYAC hybrid air coolers. Complementing these offerings are decanters and other separation-related products. Alfa Laval serves a broad spectrum of sectors worldwide, including energy, utilities, home and personal care, food, dairy, beverage, marine, transportation, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and water/wastewater industries. Founded in 1883, Alfa Laval AB (publ) maintains its headquarters in Lund, Sweden.

Alfa Laval AB (publ) is headquartered in SE.

Alfa Laval AB (publ) (ALFVY) stock trades at $58.35 with a market capitalization of $24.12B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 28.35, price-to-book of 5.00, price-to-sales of 3.35. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $42.70 and $62.95, and currently trades 7.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.66%.

On profitability, Alfa Laval AB (publ) 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 AB (publ) reported annual revenue of $65.5B, net profit of $7.8B, revenue has compounded at 9.6% a year over the last five years, profit at 17.0% 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 $98.2B, $7.1B in cash and equivalents.

ALFVY has an average daily trading volume of 13,483 shares, a beta of 0.79 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.alfalaval.com