Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (FELE)
Industrials · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 20:01 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. trades at $96.47, close to the $102.42 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On this measure the market and the model broadly agree, so the interesting question is which of them is wrong.
Our moat model scores it 48 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 31.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
FELE dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.840 | 3 |
| 2025 | $1.06 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.00 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.900 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.780 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.700 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.620 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.580 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.468 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.424 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.398 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
FELE earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 5 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Franklin Electric Co., Inc.
Franklin Electric Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and distributes water and fuel pumping systems in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through Water Systems, Energy Systems, and Distribution segments. The Water Systems segment offers motors, pumps, water treatment systems, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment for use in groundwater, water transfer, and wastewater in a range of residential, agricultural, municipal, and industrial applications; and electronic drives and controls for the motors, which control functionality and provide protection from various hazards, such as electrical surges, over-heating, and dry wells or dry tanks. Its Energy Systems segment produces and markets pumps, motors, pipes, sumps, fittings, vapor recovery components, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment for use in energy system applications; and components between the tanks and the dispensers, including submersible pumps, station hardware, piping, and corrosion control systems. This segment serves other energy markets, such as power reliability systems, including intelligent electronic devices that are designed for online monitoring for the power utility, hydroelectric, rail, and telecommunication and data center infrastructure. The Distribution segment sells to and provides presale support and specifications to the installing contractors. It sells its products to wholesale and retail distributors, specialty distributors, and industrial and petroleum equipment distributors, as well as to oil and utility companies, and original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
FELE passes 3 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
13 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Impax Asset Management, Impax Asset Management Group plc$126.01M · 0.8% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$66.72M · 0.1% of book
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$33.50M · 0.3% of book
- Select Equity Group, Select Equity Group, L.P.$32.44M · 0.2% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$22.06M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in FELE
Trades in FELE disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 15 May 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 30 Apr 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 29 Jul 2024 · disclosed 22 Sept 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
FELE peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Specialty Industrial Machinery), then in the same sector.
- SMERY Siemens Energy AG
- SHLRF Schindler Holding AG
- SYM Symbotic Inc.
- VWSYF Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- INIO Innio N.V.
- ITT ITT Inc.
- IEX IDEX Corporation
- NDSN Nordson Corporation
Every industrials company we cover is on the Industrials hub.
Common questions
Is Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (FELE) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $102.42, FELE at $96.47 is 6% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own FELE?
13 of the institutions we track reported a position in FELE in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is FELE's P/E ratio?
FELE trades at 31.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (FELE) pay a dividend?
Yes. Franklin Electric Co., Inc. yields 1.07% at the current share price. It has paid $1.10 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 33 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its FELE data?
Fundamentals for FELE come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 20:01 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.