National Presto Industries, Inc. (NPK)
Industrials · NYQ
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 21:52 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
National Presto Industries, Inc. trades at $148.16, which is 63% above the $55.40 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 35 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. 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 27.2 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.
NPK dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.00 | 1 |
| 2025 | $1.00 | 1 |
| 2024 | $4.50 | 1 |
| 2023 | $4.00 | 1 |
| 2022 | $4.50 | 1 |
| 2021 | $6.25 | 1 |
| 2020 | $6.00 | 1 |
| 2019 | $6.00 | 1 |
| 2018 | $6.00 | 1 |
| 2017 | $5.50 | 1 |
| 2016 | $5.05 | 1 |
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.
About National Presto Industries, Inc.
National Presto Industries, Inc. provides houseware and small appliance, defense, and safety products in North America. The company's Housewares/Small Appliance segment designs, markets, and distributes housewares and small electrical appliances, including pressure cookers and canners; kitchen electrics, and comfort appliances; heat control line of skillets, griddles, woks, and multipurpose cookers; slow cookers; deep fryers; air fryers; waffle makers; pizza ovens; slicer/shredders; electric heaters; corn poppers; dehydrators; vacuum sealers; microwave bacon cookers; coffee makers and coffee maker accessories; electric knife sharpeners; and timers under the Presto Control Master brand. This segment sells its products directly to retailers, as well as through independent distributors. Its Defense segment manufactures and sells 40mm ammunition, precision mechanical and electro-mechanical assemblies, medium-caliber cartridge cases, and metal parts; and performs Load, Assemble and Pack (LAP) operations on ordnance-related products primarily for the United States Government and prime contractors; and manufactures detonators, booster pellets, release cartridges, lead azide, other military energetic devices and materials, and assemblies. This segment primarily serves the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and DOD prime contractors; and niche market ordnance products, such as training ammunition, fuzes, firing devices, and initiators. The Safety segment provides safety technology products, including smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, combo smoke/carbon monoxide alarms with an array of voice messages in English and Spanish, digital displays, and a PFAS-free foam commercial fire extinguisher. National Presto Industries, Inc. was founded in 1905 and is based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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NPK 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
8 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$15.47M · 0.0% of book
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$10.95M · 0.1% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$9.33M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$4.57M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$3.05M · 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.
NPK peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Aerospace & Defense), then in the same sector.
- GE GE Aerospace
- AIR.DE Airbus SE
- BA The Boeing Company
- BAESF BAE Systems plc
- HONA Honeywell Aerospace Inc.
- RHM.DE Rheinmetall AG
- RKLB Rocket Lab Corporation
- ESLT Elbit Systems Ltd.
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Common questions
Is National Presto Industries, Inc. (NPK) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $55.40, NPK at $148.16 is 63% above 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 NPK?
8 of the institutions we track reported a position in NPK 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 NPK's P/E ratio?
NPK trades at 27.2 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 National Presto Industries, Inc. (NPK) pay a dividend?
Yes. National Presto Industries, Inc. yields 0.82% at the current share price. It has paid $1.00 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 12 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 NPK data?
Fundamentals for NPK come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 21:52 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.