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Compx International Inc
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +75.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,689.58▲ +169.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $23.27 | $26.15 | $25.28 | $18.48 | $22.47 | $14.23 | $14.59 | $13.61 | $13.30 | $16.10 | $11.40 | $12.09 | $14.08 | $14.30 | $14.73 | $11.50 | $7.57 | |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 13.7% a year plus a 3.1% dividend — Lynch adds the yield to the growth rate, so a payer is not priced like a company that returns nothing. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.8 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 16.2 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
Cash flow growing 13.7% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 12.6x operating profit, less net debt. Sees the business before its financing, so debt does not distort the comparison. Banks have no EBITDA — interest is their revenue, not a cost.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPCEVirgin Galactic Holdings, Inc | $3.12 | — | 1.1x | — | -75.13% | $472.98M |
| QUADQuad/Graphics, Inc. | $9.25 | 14.0x | 3.8x | 4.32% | 29.48% | $476.02M |
| SPIRSpire Global, Inc. | $12.21 | — | 4.5x | — | -61.72% | $477.59M |
| FBYDFalcon's Beyond Global, Inc. | $9.87 |
CompX International Inc. manufactures and sells security products and recreational marine components primarily in North America. It operates in two segments, Security Products and Marine Components. The Security Products segment manufactures mechanical and electrical cabinet locks, and other locking mechanisms used in various applications, including ignition systems, mailboxes, file cabinets, desk drawers, tool storage cabinets, high security medical cabinetry, integrated inventory and access control secured narcotics boxes, electrical circuit panels, storage compartments, gas station security, and vending and cash containment machines. This segment also offers disc and pin tumbler locks; and CompX eLock and StealthLock electronic locks for drug storage and other valuables. The Marine Components segment manufactures and distributes wake enhancement systems, stainless steel exhaust components, gauges, throttle controls, and related hardware and accessories; trim tabs, steering wheels and billet aluminum accessories; original equipment and aftermarket stainless steel exhaust headers, exhaust pipes, mufflers and other exhaust components; GPS speedometers and tachometers; mechanical and electronic controls and throttles; dash panels, LED indicators and wire harnesses; and grab handles, pin cleats and other accessories; fabricated metal products; and related hardware and accessories for ski/wakeboard boats and performance boats, as well as for the recreational marine and other industries. The company offers its products to recreational transportation, postal, office and institutional furniture, cabinetry, tool storage, healthcare, and other industries. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, as well as through distributors. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Dallas, Texas. CompX International Inc. (NYSEAM:CIX) operates as a subsidiary of NLI Holdings, Inc.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| P/E |
| 16.2x |
| 14.7x |
| 19.4x |
| 13.7x |
| 10.9x |
| 16.8x |
| 17.1x |
| 11.3x |
| 11.1x |
| 12.5x |
| 19.2x |
| 15.6x |
| 17.3x |
| 28.7x |
| 5.1x |
| 23.8x |
| 46.0x |
| — |
| P/S | 0.9x | 1.8x | 2.2x | 1.9x | 1.4x | 2.0x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.4x | — | — | — |
| P/B | 0.7x | 2.1x | 2.2x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | — | — | — |
| EPS | $1.58 | $1.35 | $1.84 | $1.69 | $1.34 | $0.83 | $1.29 | $1.23 | $1.06 | $0.84 | $0.73 | $0.70 | $0.49 | $2.82 | $0.62 | $0.25 | -$0.16 |
| Dividend yield | 3.39% | 9.45% | 12.24% | 3.96% | 14.88% | 3.56% | 2.81% | 1.92% | 1.10% | 1.50% | 1.24% | 1.75% | 1.65% | 1.95% | 3.50% | 3.39% | 4.35% | 6.61% |
| Payout | 51.27% | 139.24% | 237.04% | 54.35% | 162.72% | 59.70% | 48.19% | 21.71% | 12.20% | 18.87% | 23.81% | 27.40% | 28.57% | 56.12% | 17.73% | 80.65% | 200.00% | — |
| Profit margin | 11.37% | 12.31% | 11.37% | 14.01% | 12.53% | 11.77% | 9.01% | 12.88% | 12.96% | 11.78% | 9.60% | 8.37% | 8.34% | 6.53% | 42.02% | 9.61% | 4.01% | -1.72% |
| ROE | 9.57% | 14.05% | 11.35% | 13.38% | 13.17% | 9.57% | 6.16% | 9.86% | 10.25% | 9.67% | 8.31% | 7.75% | 7.80% | 5.74% | 34.26% | 9.06% | 3.64% | -2.34% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
Dividend growing 6.1% a year against a 8.5% required return, taken from the stock’s beta. The only method anchored on what the company pays rather than what it reports.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
+38.7% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
| — |
| 31.7x |
| — |
| -31.82% |
| $478.34M |
| WNCWABASH NATIONAL Corp | $11.76 | — | 1.6x | 2.72% | -22.87% | $479.07M |
| BUUUBUUU Group Ltd | $28.70 | — | 78.6x | — | -7.23% | $479.15M |