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AMETEK INC/ Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, Net Income, and Diluted EPS on Both Three-Month and Six-Month Windows Versus the Prior-Year Comparatives, with Each Line Retaining a Profit-to-Profit Transition

finance · August 21, 2026

AMETEK INC/ Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, Net Income, and Diluted EPS on Both Three-Month and Six-Month Windows Versus the Prior-Year Comparatives, with Each Line Retaining a Profit-to-Profit Transition

Key financial metrics

Reported figures from the filing; no estimates.

MetricReportedPrior-year comparable
Revenue$2,044,397,000the three months ended June 30, 2026$1,778,056,000the three months ended June 30, 2025
Operating income$528,193,000the three months ended June 30, 2026$461,626,000the three months ended June 30, 2025
Net income$406,896,000the three months ended June 30, 2026$358,367,000the three months ended June 30, 2025
Diluted earnings per share$1.77 per diluted sharethe three months ended June 30, 2026$1.55 per diluted sharethe three months ended June 30, 2025
Operating cash flow$935,210,000the six months ended June 30, 2026$776,634,000the six months ended June 30, 2025
Cash and equivalents$495,446,000the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026Not reported

What the sources reported

Bottom line

Across both windows the company kept posting a profit, and every top-line and bottom-line measure in the consolidated statement of income moved in the same direction against the prior year. Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax was $2,044,397,000 USD for the three-month reporting period the three months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $1,778,056,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and was $3,972,834,000 USD for the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $3,510,027,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Operating Income (Loss) was $528,193,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $461,626,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and was $1,043,129,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $916,455,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was $406,896,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $358,367,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and was $806,253,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $710,125,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Earnings Per Share, Diluted was $1.77 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the three months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $1.55 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and was $3.51 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the six months ended June 30, 2026, higher than the prior-year comparative of $3.07 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Each metric transitioned from a profit in the prior-year window to a higher profit in the current window, and each is read off the unaudited consolidated statement of income reproduced in Item 1.

Reporting-period identity and source scope: this is AMETEK INC/ (ticker AME, CIK 0001037868) filing under 10-Q for fiscal period period-ended-2026-06-30, indexed under accession 0001037868-26-000175. The three-month reporting period is the three months ended June 30, 2026 and the six-month year-to-date period is the six months ended June 30, 2026, with the corresponding prior-year comparatives the three months ended June 30, 2025 and the six months ended June 30, 2025. Source scope is limited to the figures presented in the consolidated statement of income in Item 1; other parts of the filing (the segment disclosures inside Item 1, the disclosures under Item 2, the controls discussion in Item 4, the exhibit list in Item 5, and the signatures page in Item 6) sit outside the dimension this section is meant to cover and are not used to derive any value or direction above. The fair-value hierarchy references Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 are likewise outside the scope of this income-statement summary.

The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.

The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.

Financial performance

- YOY - For the three-month reporting period, Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax registered $2,044,397,000, against the prior-year quarter's $1,778,056,000, and the comparative authorization records the current quarter above the prior-year quarter. Operating Income (Loss) for the quarter stood at $528,193,000 versus the prior-year quarter's $461,626,000, again with the current period above the prior period under the authorized relation. 55 per diluted share.

The transition characterizations logged in the ledger remain profit to profit on each of those lines. - QOQ - The same revenue, operating income, net income and diluted EPS lines are reported for the six-month year-to-date window the six months ended June 30, 2026 alongside the prior-year comparative the six months ended June 30, 2025. 07 per diluted share.

The ledger authorizes an increase in each case, with all four lines retaining a profit-to-profit transition across the half-year span. Quarter-on-quarter directionality is not separately authorized in the reported comparisons for these four series, so no quarter-on-quarter characterization is asserted here. - GUIDANCE - The financial statements presented in Item 1 are the basis for the figures above, while Item 4 and Item 2 provide the Part II items disclosed alongside the results and Item 6 covers the signature page and Item 5 addresses other information.

Beyond that, the filing does not publish a forward-looking management guidance range for revenue, operating income, net income, or earnings per share, and no separate expectation is stated for the next quarter; the only forward-looking items in the cited notes are the FASB ASU adoption evaluations referenced below. - EXPECTATIONS - The cited accounting context focuses on three pending ASUs: the segment-related update effective for annual periods beginning after December (omitted), the internal-use software update under Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic (omitted)), and the Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic (omitted)) guidance effective for annual periods beginning after December (omitted) and interim periods beginning after December (omitted).

In each case the filing states the Company is evaluating or has not determined the impact on its consolidated financial statements or disclosures, so any quantitative expectation tied to those standards is absent. Other reference material carries fair-value classifications described by Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 inputs, contract-revenue notes about previously deferred contract liabilities now recognized, warranty accruals, and credit-loss allowances described as not material for the three and six months ended June (omitted), and an earnings-per-share disclosure showing basic shares, equity-based compensation plan additions, and diluted shares — none of which speak to a forward expectation.

No peer or industry benchmark is provided in the filing evidence. - The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.

Unknowns include any quarter-on-quarter directional move for revenue, operating income, net income, or earnings per share, the specific impact of the pending ASUs, and any forward guidance figures management may communicate outside the filing.

Operating drivers and segments

The Company groups its businesses into two reportable segments, Electronic Instruments Group and Electromechanical Group, organized primarily by product type, production processes, distribution methods, and management structure, as described in the notes to the consolidated financial statements under Item 1. The segment aggregation logic, the number of operating segments, and the basis for combining product families are management-defined reporting choices rather than independently verifiable constructs from the cited evidence.

Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax is the only top-line dimension supplied to this section for both the three-month reporting period and the six-month year-to-date period. For the three-month reporting period, revenue was $2,044,397,000, compared with $1,778,056,000 in the prior-year comparative period, and for the six-month year-to-date period, revenue was $3,972,834,000, compared with $3,510,027,000 in the prior-year comparative period. Both comparisons carry an authorized increase direction; both windows move from a positive prior period to a positive current period. Operating Income (Loss), the consolidated segment-aggregate profitability line visible here, was $528,193,000 for the three-month reporting period versus $461,626,000 in the prior-year comparative period, and $1,043,129,000 for the six-month year-to-date period versus $916,455,000 in the prior-year comparative period. Both operating-income comparisons carry an authorized increase direction and both reflect a profit-to-profit transition.

No segment-level revenue split, operating margin, or capital-intensity ratio is supplied to this section; the cited notes reference the existence of the two segments and the consolidation perimeter but do not provide a quantitative attribution of revenue or operating income between Electronic Instruments Group and Electromechanical Group for either period. As a result, segment mix, segment-level operating leverage, and any differential between the two groups cannot be evaluated from the filing evidence.

Management's own explanation of operating performance sits outside the segment note: the cited text asserts that all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation, primarily consisting of normal recurring accruals, have been included, and that quarterly results are not necessarily indicative of full-year results. Management also describes a forward-looking accounting posture in which the Company is evaluating the impact of recently issued ASU updates covering hedge accounting improvements and targeted improvements to internal-use software accounting, but provides no quantitative effect on the reported periods.

Independent analysis is constrained by what the evidence actually contains. the filing does not disclose unit volume, price/mix, currency effects, backlog conversion, or end-market exposure at the segment level, nor does it attribute the reported revenue or operating-income movement to any single cause. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. Peer or industry comparison data is similarly absent from the cited text, so relative positioning cannot be assessed. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.

Cash flow and capital

The filing's consolidated statement of cash flows separates the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026 into the three standard activities, and the reported comparisons versus the prior-year comparative the six months ended June 30, 2025 control which directional statements the prose may carry. Operating cash flow again appears as the funding engine of the business, and relative to the prior-year comparative it is higher, consistent with the same profit-to-profit transition shown by net income and operating income elsewhere in the report. Investing cash flow is a use of cash in both windows and is a larger use of cash in the current six months than in the prior-year comparative. Financing cash flow is also a use of cash in both windows and is a smaller use of cash in the current six months than in the prior-year comparative, meaning less cash left through financing than the prior year despite the larger investing outflow.

Capital expenditures, reported as Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment, were higher in the six months ended June 30, 2026 than in the six months ended June 30, 2025, in line with the authorized increase and consistent with the company's overall pattern of investing in productive capacity. Capital return to shareholders also stepped up: Payments for Repurchase of Common Stock were higher period-over-period, and Payments of Ordinary Dividends, Common Stock were likewise higher period-over-period under the authorized comparison. The narrative on acquisitions adds a qualitative overlay worth flagging: management discloses that the company spent cash to acquire LKC in January and First Aviation Services, Inc., and the cited note describes both as additive to the operating footprint rather than as a financing transaction. Given the higher investing outflow and the higher capital expenditures line, the acquisitions appear to be a meaningful contributor to the investing use of cash, though the filing does not break the investing total between acquisition spend and organic capex, so any further split is The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause..

The balance sheet at the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026 shows Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value reported as $495,446,000 USD, alongside Long-term Debt, Excluding Current Maturities reported as $1,055,541,000 USD. The fair-value hierarchy disclosure is worth noting for capital-structure readers: the Company classifies its net long-term debt as a level two liability because the privately held debt has no public market and is valued using comparable current market data for similar debt instruments, sitting alongside the level one and level three disclosure language referenced in Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Hedging activities referenced in the disclosure note show that British-pound- and Euro-denominated long-term borrowings are designated as net investment hedges in certain foreign subsidiaries, which links the debt stack to the foreign-currency translation component of other comprehensive income rather than to current earnings.

Peer and historical context

- Reporting identity and a small set of top-line, bottom-line, and cash-flow figures carry the comparison; peer benchmarks, segment splits, and prior-year cause information are absent from the filing evidence. - The filing text frames the acquisitions as immaterial to reported net sales, net income, and diluted earnings per share across both reporting windows, supporting the view that inorganic activity did not muddy the year-over-year comparison. - <prose> For AMETEK INC/ under 10-Q for period-ended-2026-06-30 (accession 0001037868-26-000175), the peer and historical comparison can only be built from the filing's own prior-year column and from the same-company six-month trend in operating cash flow; no third-party peer or industry dataset is included in the filing evidence, and the only sector context that appears is qualitative commentary on completed acquisitions.

On the three-month comparison, Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax is positive in both the three months ended June 30, 2026 and the three months ended June 30, 2025, with the current period higher than the prior period; Operating Income (Loss) is positive in both periods and higher in the current quarter; and Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent is positive in both periods and higher in the current quarter, with Earnings Per Share, Diluted likewise moving from profit to profit and rising. The picture on the six-month window is consistent in direction: Revenue is positive in both the six months ended June 30, 2026 and the six months ended June 30, 2025 and higher in the current period, Operating Income is positive in both periods and higher in the current period, and Net Income is positive in both periods and higher in the current period, again with Earnings Per Share, Diluted higher and profit-to-profit. Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities is also positive in both half-year windows and higher in the current the six months ended June 30, 2026 than in the six months ended June 30, 2025.

The financing-activity line direction and the capital-return lines are likewise signed identically across the two half-year periods — Payments of Ordinary Dividends, Common Stock are positive in both and higher in the current window, Payments for Repurchase of Common Stock are positive in both and higher in the current window, Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment are positive in both and higher in the current window, while Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities and Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities remain negative in both periods and move only as the authorized directions describe.

What the filing does not provide is a peer set, an index, or any industry benchmark tied to specific competitors, so no relative ranking can be derived from the text. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. The qualitative acquisition disclosures offer something close to a counter-evidence point rather than a peer benchmark: the LKC and First Aviation transactions are described as having an immaterial impact on reported net sales, net income, and diluted earnings per share for both the three-month and six-month windows, and pro forma net sales, net income, and diluted earnings per share would not have been materially different had the acquisitions occurred at the beginning of the prior years, which together suggest the year-over-year deltas in $2,044,397,000, $3,972,834,000, $528,193,000, $1,043,129,000, $406,896,000, $806,253,000 and $935,210,000 against their prior-year counterparts mostly reflect organic drivers rather than deal flow. The same evidence notes that the currencies remeasurement activity tied to the British-pound- and Euro-denominated net investment hedges produced pre-tax currency remeasurement gains recognized in other comprehensive income for the six months ended in the six months ended June 30, 2026, but translation adjustment and other comprehensive income figures are not part of this section's catalog. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. The level-tier references in the filing (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3) and the Item-level sections (Item 1 through Item 6) do not contribute peer comparison data, and The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. so any cross-division or cross-competitor slice is left for a later section to attempt.

Scenario analysis

- In the base scenario, AMETEK INC/'s reported figures for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and the six months ended June 30, 2026 are taken at face value from the consolidated statement of income in Item 1. Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax for the three months ended June 30, 2026 sits at $2,044,397,000 and for the six months ended June 30, 2026 sits at $3,972,834,000, with Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent at $406,896,000 for the quarter and $806,253,000 for the year-to-date period.

The authorized comparisons confirm the direction of each year-over-year movement: revenue is higher than the prior period on both windows, and net income remains a profit on a profit transition, higher than the prior period on both windows. No segment-level breakout is offered for revenue or net income in the cited note, so this base view rests entirely on the consolidated line items rather than any divisional mix. - The upside scenario assumes the acquisition activity disclosed in the notes can compound on top of the reported base.

The filing describes cash deployed for the LKC Technologies and First Aviation Services acquisitions, alongside the prior FARO Technologies and Kern transactions, and notes that an estimated fair value contingent payment exists for Kern tied to cumulative revenue and EBITDA targets measured with level three inputs. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. If those contingent triggers are met and integration synergies land as described, the year-to-date trajectory already shown by $3,972,834,000 and $806,253,000 could extend beyond the reported baseline, with the hedge accounting on British pound and Euro denominated net investments, reported in the foreign currency translation component of other comprehensive income, providing an offsetting tailwind or headwind depending on the path of those currencies.

- The downside scenario focuses on the same line items under stress. The filing characterizes the LKC and First Aviation deals as having an immaterial impact on reported net sales, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the three and six months ended June, and states that pro forma figures assuming an earlier acquisition date would not have been materially different. Even so, if integration costs, contingent consideration remeasurement on the Kern liability, or adverse moves in the hedged currencies reverse the gains already booked in other comprehensive income, $406,896,000 and $806,253,000 could compress against the prior-year comparatives of $358,367,000 and $710,125,000, and revenue of $2,044,397,000 and $3,972,834,000 could similarly underperform the prior-period bases of $1,778,056,000 and $3,510,027,000.

The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. - The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. Across all three scenarios, the filing evidence supplies no peer or industry comparison and no segment-level revenue or margin detail, so the scenarios are framed only around the consolidated figures in Item 1 and the acquisition and hedging disclosures summarized above.

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Risks and what to watch

- the filing offers a narrow slice of evidence — a single set of 10-Q figures drawn from period-ended-2026-06-30 under accession 0001037868-26-000175 for AMETEK INC/ (AME, CIK 0001037868) — so every risk discussed here must be read against that limited aperture rather than against a fuller annual picture.

Reported facts (from the cited item of the filing): - Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax of $2,044,397,000 USD for the three months ended the three months ended June 30, 2026, against $1,778,056,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and revenue of $3,972,834,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus $3,510,027,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (see the income statement at Item 1). - Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent of $406,896,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2026, $358,367,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, $806,253,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026, and $710,125,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (see Item 1).

Management explanations: - Management frames recent acquisitions (LKC, First Aviation, and a finalized FARO Technologies measurement) as complements to existing ultra precision technologies and maintenance, repair and overhaul businesses, and states that the LKC and First Aviation acquisitions had an immaterial impact on reported net sales, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the three- and six-month windows; pro-forma disclosures for those windows are described as not materially different from reported amounts. - Management also notes that the Kern acquisition carried an estimated fair-value contingent payment tied to cumulative revenue and EBITDA targets, valued using the lower fair-value tier — i.e., the level labeled Level 3 — based on a probabilistic approach, leaving that liability subject to future target performance.

Analyst inference (kept to authorized directions only): - Across both the quarter and the half-year, the authorized comparison indicates Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax moved higher (current positive versus prior positive), and Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent moved higher (current profit versus prior profit) on a profit-to-profit transition. No causal language is added.

Counter-evidence and friction points: - The acquisition disclosures explicitly call LKC and First Aviation immaterial to net sales and net income for the reported windows, which can be read as a counterweight to any narrative that inorganic activity drove the period-over-period gains. - The contingent Kern consideration is unobservable-input driven under Level 3, introducing valuation sensitivity that is not visible in the headline numbers and is not separately broken out for this period. - The income-statement presentation under Item 1 does not split operating segments for this dimension, so a segment-level read is not available here.

Unknowns: - Segment-level revenue or net-income detail for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and the six months ended June 30, 2026 is not disclosed at this granularity: The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension.. - A peer or industry benchmark for the same windows is not contained in the filing evidence: The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.. - No single cause is attributed in the filing for the direction of the year-over-year changes: The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause..

Metrics to watch next period: - The diluted earnings-per-share print on Item 1 for the next interim window, alongside the Item 2 share-repurchase activity disclosed elsewhere in 10-Q, since buyback intensity can influence per-share optics independent of operating performance. - The Item 4 controls-and-procedures statement and any subsequent-events language under Item 5 and Item 6, which would be the natural carriers of any post-period acquisition, contingent-payment true-up, or fair-value remeasurement news tied to the Level 1 through Level 3 hierarchy.

Evidence

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