KAI: Kadant Inc.
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KAI at a glance
KAI returned +13.26% over the past year and +5.93% a year over five years. Its worst drop in that year was -25.59%, smaller than 68% of stocks on Redstone, and its Sharpe ratio of 0.42 beats 46% of stocks on Redstone. It yields 0.47%.
Current Drawdown
-12.36%
Rolling Volatility
44.90%
Dividends
KAI dividends
Yield
0.47%
Paid, past year
$1.42
Pays
Quarterly
Growth a year
+9.2%
Per share, by year
Yearly return over 5 years
KAI paid $1.42 a share over the past year, every quarter. Its yearly rate rose from $1.03 in 2022 to $1.34 in 2025, 9.2% a year. With dividends reinvested it returned +5.93% a year over five years, against +5.41% on price alone.
›All 20 payments since Jan 5, 2022
- Oct 15, 2026$0.36
- Jul 16, 2026$0.36
- Apr 15, 2026$0.36
- Jan 8, 2026$0.34
- Oct 9, 2025$0.34
- Jul 10, 2025$0.34
- Apr 9, 2025$0.34
- Jan 10, 2025$0.32
- Oct 10, 2024$0.32
- Jul 11, 2024$0.32
- Apr 9, 2024$0.32
- Jan 3, 2024$0.29
- Oct 11, 2023$0.29
- Jul 12, 2023$0.29
- Apr 11, 2023$0.29
- Jan 4, 2023$0.26
- Oct 12, 2022$0.26
- Jul 13, 2022$0.26
- Apr 12, 2022$0.26
- Jan 5, 2022$0.25
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About KAI
Kadant Inc. supplies process and engineering equipment for papermaking, recycling, lumber manufacturing, and related industries.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Special Industry Machinery (no Metalworking Machinery)
- Market cap
- $3.6B
- Listed
- Nov 1992
- Employees
- 3,900
- Headquarters
- Westford, MA
- Website
- kadant.com
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