“The Company reduced outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility by a net $310.0 million, using available cash to mitigate the impact of higher interest costs due to the maturity of this instrument.”10-K · Aug 13, 2026 ↗
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.
AIT
Market read
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 2 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Cash used for acquisitions fell sharply from the prior year, making the comparison an important baseline for future deal activity.
- Accounts receivable rose with stronger second-half revenue, contributing to a $8.3 million decline in operating cash flow.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if AIT's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 2 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Cash used for acquisitions fell sharply from the prior year, making the comparison an important baseline for future deal activity.
- Accounts receivable rose with stronger second-half revenue, contributing to a $8.3 million decline in operating cash flow.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +8.8% year over year.
No qualifying adverse evidence was identified; that is not proof there is no downside.
- P/E is 26% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 37% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
318.50Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Excluding the impact of businesses acquired, sales increased $97.1 million or 6.3%, due to higher volumes of approximately $56.1 million primarily reflecting stronger demand across our fluid power and automation operations, as well as positive price contribut…”10-K · Aug 13, 2026 ↗
“In accordance with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, as amended, the Company is subject to a 1% excise tax on the net repurchase of its stock, which is recorded as a direct cost of the transaction in the period of repurchase.”10-K · Aug 13, 2026 ↗
“Accrued incentives expected to be settled as a credit against future purchases are reported on the consolidated balance sheets as an offset to amounts due to the related supplier.”10-K · Aug 13, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 2.4× · EV/sales 2.5×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 10 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for AIT. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for AIT. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind AIT
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
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“Applied Industrial Technologies is a distributor of bearings, power transmission products, fluid power components and other industrial supplies and provides engineering, design and systems integration for industrial and fluid power applications, as well as cu…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
AIT is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group Industrial Distribution. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for AIT; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.