Preformed Line Products Co
Preformed Line Products Co (PLPC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Electrical Equipment & Parts, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Mayfield, United States and has 3,734 employees. The company is worth $1.62B and trades at 37.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $669.34M in fiscal 2025, up 12.7% from the year before. Net income was $35.28M. The share price is 34.3% below its 52-week high of $504.69. It pays a dividend yielding 0.25%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Steve Cohen (Point72 Asset Management), at $20.87M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 2 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.
▲ +458.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $5,257.73▲ +425.8%
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 | $206.71 | $127.79 | $133.86 | $83.29 | $64.70 | $68.44 | $60.35 | $54.25 | $71.05 | $58.12 | $42.10 | $54.63 | $73.16 | $59.42 | $59.66 | $58.53 | $43.80 | |
| 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.
Earnings growing 3.6% a year plus a 0.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 13.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 3.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSGRDistribution Solutions Group, Inc. | $35.06 | 184.5x | 2.5x | 0.00% | 1.37% | $1.62B |
| HUBGHub Group, Inc. | $26.47 | 15.2x | 1.0x | 1.89% | 6.24% | $1.62B |
| NWCLnewcleo plc | $5.88 | — | 8.3x | 0.00% | — | $1.63B |
| ENREnergizer Holdings Inc | $23.43 |
| 13.2x |
| 29.0x |
| 17.0x |
| 10.6x |
| 7.7x |
| 9.0x |
| 11.4x |
| 13.2x |
| 10.4x |
| 28.8x |
| 19.7x |
| 34.0x |
| 22.9x |
| 19.4x |
| 10.9x |
| 10.3x |
| 13.5x |
| 10.1x |
| P/S | 0.8x | 1.5x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.9x |
| P/B | 1.3x | 2.1x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.4x |
| EPS | $7.14 | $7.50 | $12.68 | $10.88 | $7.19 | $5.98 | $4.58 | $5.21 | $2.47 | $2.95 | $1.24 | $2.39 | $3.77 | $5.45 | $5.78 | $4.33 | $4.35 |
| Dividend yield | 1.33% | 0.39% | 0.63% | 0.60% | 0.72% | 1.24% | 1.17% | 1.33% | 1.47% | 1.13% | 1.38% | 1.90% | 1.46% | 0.82% | 1.68% | 1.34% | 1.37% | 1.83% |
| Payout | 15.92% | 11.20% | 10.67% | 6.31% | 5.51% | 11.13% | 13.38% | 17.47% | 15.36% | 32.39% | 27.12% | 64.52% | 33.47% | 15.92% | 18.35% | 13.84% | 18.48% | 18.39% |
| Profit margin | 6.32% | 5.27% | 6.25% | 9.46% | 8.54% | 6.91% | 6.39% | 5.24% | 6.32% | 3.35% | 4.53% | 1.88% | 3.31% | 5.02% | 6.67% | 7.30% | 6.83% | 9.08% |
| ROE | 10.20% | 7.42% | 8.78% | 15.22% | 15.17% | 11.30% | 10.20% | 8.68% | 10.66% | 5.30% | 6.82% | 3.05% | 5.29% | 8.16% | 12.15% | 14.56% | 11.71% | 13.67% |
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.
-54.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 19.0x |
| 7.9x |
| 5.12% |
| 42.18% |
| $1.6B |
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