The Gorman-Rupp Company (GRC) Stock

The Gorman-Rupp Company (GRC) is a Industrials stock trading at $77.83 (as of 2026-08-20), with a market capitalization of $2.06B and a trailing P/E of 30.9. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

The Gorman-Rupp Company designs, manufactures, and sells pumps and pump systems in the United States and internationally. The company's products include self-priming centrifugal, standard centrifugal, magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, vertical turbine line shaft, submersible, high pressure booster, rotary gear, diaphragm, bellows, and oscillating pumps. Its products are used in water, wastewater, construction, dewatering, industrial, petroleum, original equipment, agriculture, fire protection, military, and other liquid-handling applications, as well as in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning applications. The company markets its products through a network of distributors, manufacturers' representatives, third-party distributor catalogs, direct sales, and commerce. The Gorman-Rupp Company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Mansfield, Ohio.

Understand The Gorman-Rupp Company: how it makes money

The Gorman-Rupp Company designs, manufactures, and sells pumps and pump systems, it makes money by selling these pump products into liquid-handling applications such as water, wastewater, construction, dewatering, industrial, petroleum, agriculture, fire protection, military, and other uses.

Incoming Orders are the demand input that management must convert into Net Sales to generate operating profit.

Business quality (Mixed): The company tracks order intake (Incoming Orders), which can help investors gauge demand before it shows up in sales, but the provided data does not break out how different pump types or end markets contribute to results.

Valuation: At 39× earnings, GRC trades 16% above the Machinery average (34×). Note: one-time items can distort reported P/E.

Bull case

  • Broad product and application set: Gorman-Rupp sells many pump types (including self-priming centrifugal, magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, vertical turbine line shaft, submersible, high pressure booster, rotary gear, diaphragm, bellows, and oscillating pumps) used in many liquid-handling applications.
  • Order intake is explicitly tracked: The company provides an operating demand metric, Incoming Orders, which can signal whether the pipeline of future sales is strengthening or weakening.

Bear case

  • Dependence on demand translating into sales: If Incoming Orders do not translate into Net Sales, operating results can be pressured because the profit engine depends on converting orders into sales.
  • Limited segment clarity in provided data: With only Net Sales as a candidate and no clean multi-segment breakdown provided, it is harder to assess what parts of the pump portfolio drive changes in results.
Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price$77.83
Market Cap$2.06B
P/E Ratio30.9
EV / EBITDA18.0
Price / Book4.66
Price / Sales2.89
FCF Yield8.2%
DCF Value (model)$23.27
DCF Upside vs Price-70.1%
Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)$682.39M
Net Margin7.8%
Revenue Growth (YoY)3.4%
EPS Growth (YoY)32.0%
FCF Growth (YoY)60.1%
Financial Health — source: SEC EDGAR
Altman Z-Score4.79 (safe)
Piotroski F-Score6/9 (moderate)
Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Stock P/E30.9
Sector P/E (Industrials)25.9
Industry P/E (Machinery)32.3
vs Sector19.5%
vs Industry-4.2%
Smart-Money Activity — SEC Form 4 / 13F / Congressional disclosures
Top Institutional HolderVANGUARD GROUP INC ($105.65M)
Institutional Holders Tracked10
Company
SectorIndustrials
IndustryMachinery
CEOScott A. King
Employees1,450
CountryUS
IPO Date1980-03-17

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Data as of 2026-08-20.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.