“The increase in working capital was primarily driven by an increase in receivables due to increased sales as well as the timing of collections year-over-year and higher inventory purchases in consideration of customer demand, which was partially offset by the…”10-Q · Aug 10, 2026 ↗
Ferguson Enterprises Inc.
FERG
Market read
Ferguson Enterprises Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.86x, improving versus the comparable period.
- Revenue decreased 2.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Acquired businesses contributed 2.6% to the latest sales increase.
- Low-single digit price inflation contributed to the latest sales increase.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if FERG's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.86x, improving versus the comparable period.
- Revenue decreased 2.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Acquired businesses contributed 2.6% to the latest sales increase.
- Low-single digit price inflation contributed to the latest sales increase.
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?
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Foreign exchange has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 98% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 74% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
222.58Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The increase was primarily driven by low-single digit price inflation, incremental sales from acquisitions of 2.6% and the impact of foreign currency exchange rates of 1.9%.”10-Q · Aug 10, 2026 ↗
“This decrease in net sales was primarily driven by the impact of non-core business divestments of 3.6%, along with lower sales volume, partially offset by low-single digit price inflation.”10-Q · Aug 10, 2026 ↗
“The increase in interest expense was due to higher average borrowings in fiscal 2025 compared with the prior year.”10-K · Sep 26, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 1.4× · EV/sales 1.5×. 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 11 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 FERG. 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.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-05-05 against the comparable filing from 2025-06-03.
What improved
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.86x, improving versus the comparable period.
What weakened
- Revenue decreased 2.0% versus the comparable filing period.
Filing receipts
“The increase in working capital was primarily driven by an increase in receivables due to the timing of collections year-over-year, higher inventory purchases in consideration of customer demand, the timing of vendor payments compared with the prior year and the change in timing of cash incentive payouts in light of the Company’s change to a calendar year-end.”
“See the section titled “ Non-GAAP Reconciliations and Supplementary Information .” For the first quarter of 2026, net sales increased by 3.6% compared with the first quarter of 2025, primarily due to price inflation and incremental sales from acquisitions, partially offset by lower volume.”
“This increase in net sales was primarily driven by incremental sales from acquisitions of 5.8%, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates of 4.6% and low to mid-single digit price inflation.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind FERG
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
GLPFiling-linked namepartnerSep 26, 2025 ▾
“Global supply chain We have a global supply chain which provides access to approximately 37,000 suppliers and we sell more than 1 million unique products each year.”
Depended on by
WMS13.1% of WMScustomerMay 21, 2026 ▾
“Ferguson Enterprises (“Ferguson”) accounted for 13.1% and Core & Main, Inc.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
FERG 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. 2 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for FERG; 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.