Brady Corp
Brady Corp (BRC) is listed on NYSE and classified in Security & Protection Services, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Milwaukee, United States and has 6,325 employees. The company is worth $3.88B and trades at 19.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $1.66B in fiscal 2026, up 9.8% from the year before. Net income was $205.38M. The share price is 16.8% below its 52-week high of $99.29. It pays a dividend yielding 1.21%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $83.79M. In that quarter, 1 of them reduced the position. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $133.37K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +63.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,695.17▲ +69.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $81.93 | $78.37 | $73.85 | $58.69 | $47.10 | $53.90 | $52.82 | $57.26 | $43.46 | $37.90 | $37.55 | $22.98 | $27.34 | $30.93 | $33.40 | $31.57 | $32.61 | $30.01 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 11.7% a year plus a 1.2% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 20.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 11.7% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIRAar Corp | $96.67 | 20.4x | 2.2x | 0.00% | 12.93% | $3.89B |
| DPCDPC Holdings PLC | $26.01 | — | 5.0x | 0.00% | — | $3.89B |
| RHIRobert Half Inc | $37.68 | 32.8x | 3.1x | 6.26% | 9.11% | $3.86B |
| OTTROtter Tail Corp | $90.78 |
| P/E | 20.8x | 19.0x | 19.9x | 18.2x | 16.7x | 16.2x | 21.8x | 25.0x | 23.3x | 25.1x | 20.6x | 23.8x | 395.3x | — | — | — | 15.4x | 21.1x | 22.6x |
| P/S | 1.8x | 2.4x | 2.5x | 2.7x | 2.2x | 1.9x | 2.5x | 2.6x | 2.6x | 1.9x | 1.8x | 1.7x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.3x |
| P/B | 2.9x | 2.9x | 3.2x | 3.4x | 3.0x | 2.7x | 2.9x | 3.7x | 4.4x | 3.3x | 2.8x | 3.2x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.7x | 1.5x | 1.7x | — |
| EPS | $4.30 | $3.94 | $4.07 | $3.51 | $2.90 | $2.47 | $2.11 | $2.46 | $1.73 | $1.84 | $1.58 | $0.06 | -$0.89 | -$3.01 | -$0.34 | $2.04 | $1.55 | $1.33 |
| Dividend yield | 2.04% | 1.20% | 1.23% | 1.28% | 1.58% | 1.92% | 1.64% | 1.65% | 1.50% | 1.93% | 2.17% | 2.17% | 3.49% | 2.87% | 2.47% | 2.23% | 2.30% | 2.16% | 2.28% |
| Payout | 35.77% | 22.90% | 24.52% | 23.24% | 26.38% | 31.17% | 35.77% | 41.40% | 34.82% | 48.28% | 44.71% | 51.59% | 1381.34% | — | — | — | 35.45% | 45.55% | 51.64% |
| Profit margin | 9.42% | 12.36% | 12.50% | 14.70% | 13.13% | 11.52% | 11.33% | 10.39% | 11.31% | 7.76% | 8.59% | 7.15% | 0.25% | -3.75% | -13.35% | -1.67% | 10.26% | 6.51% | 5.80% |
| ROE | 13.46% | 15.13% | 15.87% | 18.49% | 17.65% | 16.46% | 13.46% | 14.94% | 18.75% | 13.01% | 13.66% | 13.27% | 0.51% | -6.27% | -18.60% | -1.77% | 9.40% | 8.15% | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+11.3% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 19.6x |
| 2.0x |
| 2.49% |
| 10.69% |
| $3.81B |
| ALKAlaska Air Group Inc | $35.38 | — | 1.1x | 0.00% | -10.45% | $3.95B |
| MYRGMyr Group Inc | $254.97 | 26.2x | 5.3x | 0.00% | 24.71% | $3.97B |