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National Presto Industries, Inc. (NPK)

Industrials · Aerospace & Defense · Small-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. National Presto Industries, Inc. is a strong business by our measures, its shares look fairly priced, and its share price has been doing well.
Value46
Quality66
Price trend85
Overall60
436 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
84%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to December 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$503.5M
Sales growthchange from the year before+29.7%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells16.0%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business8.0%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit6.6%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales-7.2%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business8.0%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value8.4%

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