The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

ALFA.ST

Concerning the House

Alfa Laval AB (publ) provides heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling products and solutions worldwide. The company operates through three divisions: Energy, Food & Pharma, and Ocean. It offers ballast water management systems; oil/gas-fired steam and composite steam boilers, exhaust gas economizers, electric steam boilers, and exhaust gas steam boilers; and exhaust gas cleaning products, as well as decanters and separators. The company also provides sensing and control, cleaning validation, and condition monitoring automation products; hygienic fittings, hygienic tubes, ultrapure fittings, and ultrapure tubes; agitators, tank mixers, and powder mixers; and centrifugal pumps, circumferential piston pumps, rotary lobe pumps, twin screws, three screw pumps, gear pumps, and reciprocating pumps. In addition, it offers rotary jet heads, rotary spray heads, wall mounted cleaning devices for tank cleaning, and static spray balls; and tank covers and accessories, as well as valves. Further, the company provides plate heat exchangers, air cooled heat exchangers, scraped surface heat exchangers, and tubular heat exchangers. It serves energy and utilities, home and personal care, food, dairy and beverage, marine and transportation, pharma and biotech, and water and wastewater industries. Alfa Laval AB (publ) was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Sweden · www.alfalaval.com

The Ledger
LineMar 2025Jun 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026
Revenue$16.46B$16.82B$19.15B$15.92B
Gross profit$6.06B$6.32B$6.46B$6.18B
Operating income$2.81B$2.91B$3.03B$2.72B
Net income$1.99B$2.01B$1.98B$1.90B
Diluted EPS4.824.874.794.59
Free cash flow$771.00M$1.48B$2.59B$708.00M
CapEx-$634.00M-$676.00M-$805.00M-$529.00M
Quotation

$562.80

-2.40 (-0.4%)

52w hi$588.80
52w lo$408.77
Vol277.28K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.12

Short-0.13
Medium+0.14
Long+0.58

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Alfa Laval AB (publ)

Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery

Market cap$232.62B
Enterprise value$250.07B
Trailing P/E28.37x
Forward P/E25.65x
EV / EBITDA18.14x
P / S (ttm)3.30x
Profit margin11.6%
Return on equity19.1%
Revenue growth+7.7%
Earnings growth+0.7%
Debt / equity45.75
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.29
Corr SPX0.22
Annual vol21.7%
Annual ret+13.1%
Sharpe0.61
Max DD-25.9%

Window: 504 trading days (490 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.45
Sector+0.07
Technical+0.00
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$566.20$569.40$561.40$562.80277.28K
Aug 12$565.60$570.00$563.20$565.20275.43K
Aug 11$570.60$571.60$564.20$564.20242.48K
Aug 10$569.00$572.80$567.40$570.80239.85K
Aug 7$572.40$574.40$569.00$569.00255.53K