Innovative Solutions & Support Inc
Innovative Solutions & Support Inc (IA) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Aerospace & Defense, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Exton, United States and has 147 employees. The company is worth $346.35M and trades at 18.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $84.3M in fiscal 2025, up 78.6% from the year before. Net income was $15.63M. The share price is 37.5% below its 52-week high of $30.94. 3 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $8.82M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
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.
▲ +191.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,862.74▲ +186.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $18.94 | $8.54 | $8.53 | $8.22 | $6.56 | $6.52 | $5.84 | $2.26 | $2.94 | $3.33 | $2.76 | $3.18 | $7.29 | $3.44 | $3.44 | $5.67 | $4.59 | |
| P/E | 25.0x |
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 25.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 25.0 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORNOrion Group Holdings Inc | $8.52 | 106.5x | 2.1x | 0.00% | 2.27% | $345.02M |
| SPIRSpire Global, Inc. | $8.95 | — | 2.4x | 0.00% | -61.72% | $350.08M |
| ERIIEnergy Recovery, Inc. | $6.67 | 25.7x | 2.0x | 0.00% | 8.58% | $340.47M |
| ADURAduro Clean Technologies Inc | $9.95 |
| 21.5x |
| 21.3x |
| 24.4x |
| 25.7x |
| 22.6x |
| 34.3x |
| 53.1x |
| — |
| 10.9x |
| 27.7x |
| — |
| 318.0x |
| 66.3x |
| 19.1x |
| 86.0x |
| 141.8x |
| 15.3x |
| P/S | 3.2x | 4.0x | 3.2x | 4.3x | 508.9x | 4.9x | 5.2x | 5.6x | 2.7x | 2.9x | 2.0x | 2.3x | 1.2x | 3.9x | 2.3x | 2.2x | 3.8x | 2.1x |
| P/B | 1.8x | 5.2x | 3.2x | 3.9x | 459.1x | 4.6x | 4.0x | 2.7x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 1.7x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 3.4x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.8x | 1.5x |
| EPS | $0.88 | $0.40 | $0.35 | $0.32 | $0.29 | $0.19 | $0.11 | -$0.22 | $0.27 | $0.12 | -$0.35 | $0.01 | $0.11 | $0.18 | $0.04 | $0.04 | $0.30 |
| Dividend yield | 17.64% | — | — | — | 0.01% | — | 17.64% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 43.60% | — | — | — |
| Payout | 605.26% | — | — | — | 0.31% | — | 605.26% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 833.33% | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 12.12% | 18.54% | 14.83% | 17.32% | 19.91% | 21.98% | 15.14% | 10.53% | -26.38% | 27.22% | 7.10% | -29.23% | 0.45% | 5.98% | 12.12% | 2.78% | 2.96% | 13.63% |
| ROE | 6.05% | 24.19% | 15.01% | 15.60% | 17.96% | 20.60% | 11.77% | 5.11% | -10.70% | 12.15% | 6.05% | -18.72% | 0.54% | 5.24% | 5.22% | 1.32% | 1.40% | 9.56% |
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.
-13.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| — |
| 8.2x |
| 0.00% |
| -48.31% |
| $352.48M |
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