“Excluding actuarial gains and losses, the Company expects lower pension and other postretirement benefits expense in 2026 compared to 2025 primarily due to higher expected returns on pension plan assets and lower interest expense.”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
The Timken Company
TKR
Market read
The Timken Company's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 25 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 7.5% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 5.9 percentage points.
- Timken cited incremental tariff costs, partly offset by IEEPA tariff refunds, as a current margin factor.
- Interest expense, net declined for the quarter, attributed to lower interest rates and lower average debt levels.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if TKR's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 25 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 7.5% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 5.9 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 63.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- Net margin fell 4.4 percentage points.
- Timken cited incremental tariff costs, partly offset by IEEPA tariff refunds, as a current margin factor.
- Interest expense, net declined for the quarter, attributed to lower interest rates and lower average debt levels.
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?
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.92x in the latest annual period.
- Operating margin changed -1.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed -1.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Foreign exchange has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Pricing and mix has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Tariffs and trade policy has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 34% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 56% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 9, 2026
119.10Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Outlook: The Company expects 2026 full-year revenues to be up approximately 5% to 6% compared to 2025, primarily driven by higher demand across both segments, favorable pricing, the benefit of acquisitions, and the favorable impact of foreign currency rate ch…”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
“Foreign currency exchange gains and losses, net of hedging activity, resulting from transactions included in the Company's operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2026 totaled $7.7 million of net losses, compared with $3.3 million of net losses du…”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
“The increase was primarily driven by higher volume across most sectors and higher pricing.”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 1.8× · EV/sales 2.2×. 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 9 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 TKR. 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
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-08-04 against the comparable filing from 2025-07-30.
Capital and cash conversion
Reported investment and cash context
- Capital spending YoY
- -4.2%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +2.6%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- +3.3%
- FCF margin change
- -1.1 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 7.5% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
- Operating margin fell 5.9 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 63.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- Net margin fell 4.4 percentage points.
Filing receipts
“Net income decreased for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared with the six months ended June 30, 2025 primarily due to higher impairment charges, incremental tariff costs, higher SG&A expense and higher manufacturing costs, partially offset by favorable price/mix, higher volume and the favorable impact of foreign currency exchange rates.”
“Net income decreased for the three months ended June 30, 2026 compared with the three months ended June 30, 2025 primarily due to higher impairment charges and higher SG&A expense, partially offset by favorable price/mix, higher volume, lower tax expense, and the favorable impact of International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) tariff refunds.”
“Interest Income and Expense: Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change Interest expense $ (26.2) $ (29.8) $ 3.6 (12.1 %) Interest income 2.5 3.0 (0.5) (16.7 %) Interest expense, net $ (23.7) $ (26.8) $ 3.1 (11.6 %) Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 $ Change % Change Interest expense $ (50.5) $ (56.3) $ 5.8 (10.3 %) Interest income 4.2 5.3 (1.1) (20.8 %) Interest expense, net $ (46.3) $ (51.0) $ 4.7 (9.2 %) The decrease in interest expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 compared with the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 was primarily due to lower interest rates and lower average debt levels.”
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Business ecosystem
The relationships behind TKR
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
RBCRBC Bearings IncorporatedcompetitorMay 15, 2026 ▾
“Competition Our principal competitors include SKF, New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Regal Rexnord, NORD and Timken, although we compete with different companies for each of our product lines.”
Filing peers
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What is moving around it
Live connections
TKR is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Industrial Infrastructure. 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.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.