Novanta Inc
Novanta Inc (NOVT) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Scientific & Technical Instruments, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Bedford, United States and has 3,000 employees. The company is worth $5.17B and trades at 88.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $980.6M in fiscal 2025, up 3.3% from the year before. Net income was $53.83M. The share price is 22.5% below its 52-week high of $176.38. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $50.58M. In that quarter, 4 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.
▼ -20.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $746.35▼ -25.4%
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 | $118.99 | $152.77 | $168.41 | $135.87 | $176.33 | $118.22 | $88.44 | $63.00 | $50.00 | $21.00 | $13.62 | $14.72 | $11.24 | $8.66 | $10.23 | $10.58 | $2.61 | |
| P/E |
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.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 59.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 3.3% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x 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 Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRZEBraze, Inc. | $45.86 | — | 8.6x | 0.00% | -18.51% | $5.21B |
| PSNParsons Corp | $47.80 | 31.2x | 1.9x | 0.00% | 8.24% | $5.11B |
| BBBLACKBERRY Ltd | $8.59 | 66.1x | 6.4x | 0.00% | 10.60% | $5.04B |
| NSITInsight Enterprises Inc | $171.27 |
| 59.7x |
| 80.9x |
| 86.3x |
| 83.4x |
| 66.0x |
| 125.1x |
| 94.6x |
| 76.9x |
| 44.1x |
| 44.2x |
| 33.3x |
| 13.4x |
| — |
| 53.5x |
| 14.9x |
| 11.9x |
| — |
| — |
| P/S | 3.3x | 4.3x | 5.8x | 6.8x | 5.6x | 8.9x | 7.1x | 5.0x | 3.6x | 3.3x | 1.9x | 1.3x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 0.2x |
| P/B | 3.2x | 3.2x | 7.4x | 9.0x | 8.4x | 12.1x | 8.8x | 7.4x | 6.0x | 5.6x | 2.8x | 1.9x | 2.4x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 0.5x |
| EPS | $1.47 | $1.77 | $2.02 | $2.06 | $1.41 | $1.25 | $1.15 | $1.43 | $1.13 | $0.63 | $1.02 | -$0.70 | $0.21 | $0.58 | $0.86 | -$0.03 | -$4.48 |
| Profit margin | 7.12% | 5.49% | 6.75% | 8.27% | 8.60% | 7.12% | 7.54% | 6.51% | 7.99% | 11.52% | 5.72% | 9.53% | -6.65% | 2.31% | 8.01% | 9.52% | -0.24% | -28.04% |
| ROE | 9.34% | 4.10% | 8.59% | 10.82% | 12.82% | 9.66% | 9.34% | 9.77% | 13.34% | 19.28% | 8.50% | 14.55% | -11.50% | 3.02% | 8.58% | 13.86% | -0.39% | -84.60% |
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.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-64.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 25.2x |
| 3.1x |
| 0.00% |
| 13.11% |
| $5.03B |
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