
Preformed Line Products Company
PLPCNASDAQIndustrialsElectrical Equipment & Parts
Previous close
$429.3
+$7.93 · +1.88%
PLPC company overview
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Valuation
64
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Momentum
49
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Sentiment
44
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Risk resilience
52
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Company profile
Company websitePreformed Line Products Company (PLPC), along with its subsidiaries, specializes in the design and manufacturing of a comprehensive range of products and integrated systems. These solutions are vital for constructing and maintaining overhead, ground-level, and underground network infrastructures across various industries, including energy, telecommunications, cable operation, and information technology. Their offerings encompass specialized formed wire products engineered to support, safeguard, terminate, and secure power conductors and communication cables, while also managing cable dynamics. Furthermore, PLPC provides diverse hardware components intended to brace and shield transmission conductors, such as spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings used in dead-end applications. The company also produces protective closures essential for shielding fixed-line communication networks, including both copper and fiber optic cables, from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants. Additional products include hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale items, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, pedestal markers, and urethane products, serving a multitude of applications in the energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and specialized sectors. PLPC serves a global clientele, reaching public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, government agencies, contractors, subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific regions. The company markets its products via both an internal direct sales force and through manufacturing representatives. Established in 1947, Preformed Line Products Company is headquartered in Mayfield, Ohio.
- Industry
- Electrical Equipment & Parts
- Sector
- Industrials
- Headquarters
- US
- CEO
- Dennis F. McKenna
- Listed since
- Apr 28, 1999
- Employees
- 3,734
Market position
Day range
Current $429.3
52-week range
Current $429.3
- Open
- $425.83
- Previous close
- $421.37
- Volume
- 91.51K
- 0.81× average
- Average volume
- 112.91K
- Average daily volume
- Market cap
- 2.1B USD
- Beta
- 0.92
- Market reference 1
- 50-day average
- $383.04
- +12.08% above average
- 200-day average
- $299.26
- +43.45% above average
Financials
Financial snapshot
Latest / TTMValuation & yield
- Enterprise value
- 981.1M USD
- EV / EBITDA
- 14.03×
- Earnings yield
- 3.47%
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.28%
Profitability & efficiency
- Return on equity
- 7.42%
- Return on assets
- 5.40%
- Return on invested capital
- 7.79%
Financial health
- Current ratio
- 3.17×
Financial statements
Margin trends
Profitability as a percentage of reported revenue.
Income trends
Revenue
Operating income
Net income
| Metric (USD) | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 669.34M USD | 593.71M USD | 669.68M USD | 637.02M USD | 517.42M USD |
| Cost of goods sold | 460.8M USD | 403.9M USD | 434.83M USD | 421.84M USD | 351.18M USD |
| Gross profit | 208.54M USD | 189.81M USD | 234.85M USD | 215.18M USD | 166.24M USD |
| Research and development | 23.69M USD | 21.92M USD | 22.48M USD | 19.66M USD | 19.19M USD |
| Selling, general, and administrative | 127.19M USD | 116.24M USD | 125.74M USD | 115.2M USD | 95.21M USD |
| Operating expenses | 153.4M USD | 139.05M USD | 150.69M USD | 145.82M USD | 118.69M USD |
| Interest income | 2.32M USD | 2.57M USD | 1.81M USD | 631K USD | 169K USD |
| Interest expense | 1.3M USD | 2.22M USD | 3.91M USD | 3.21M USD | 2.02M USD |
| Depreciation and amortization | 23.03M USD | 20.83M USD | 18.91M USD | 16.43M USD | 15.56M USD |
| Operating income | 55.14M USD | 50.76M USD | 84.15M USD | 69.36M USD | 47.55M USD |
| Net income | 35.28M USD | 37.09M USD | 63.33M USD | 54.4M USD | 35.73M USD |
Company facts updated Aug 24, 2026.
Earnings
- EPS beat rate
- 100%
- 3 beats, 0 misses, 0 met estimates
- Average EPS surprise
- +36.26%
- 3 comparable reports
- Latest EPS result
- 4.49
- Estimate 2.41 · Beat by 86.31%
EPS: actual versus estimate
Recent quarterly results
Revenue: actual versus estimate
Recent quarterly results
PLPC peers
ETFs holding PLPC
Funds reporting this stock among their holdings, ordered by reported position size.
Global X - U.S. Infrastructure Development ETFPAVE55.9M0.40%13.86B USD0.47%$56.39+0.62%
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETFVTI27.69M0.00%2.3T USD0.03%$378.24+0.44%
iShares Russell 2000 ETFIWM27.48M0.03%81.62B USD0.19%$299.96+0.77%
U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio ETFDFMC19.59M0.24%8.06B USD0.43%$60.95+0.73%
Gabelli Love Our Planet & People ETFLOPP14.32M0.79%18.1M USD0.90%$37.62+0.55%
Vanguard Extended Market ETFVXF10.64M0.01%93.7B USD0.05%$245.53+0.82%
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETFIWO9.97M0.07%15.16B USD0.24%$387.37+1.24%
First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index FundGRID9.42M0.08%11.85B USD0.56%$180.93-0.13%
Global X - U.S. Infrastructure Development ETFPAVE- Market value
- 55.9M
- Weight
- 0.40%
- AUM
- 13.86B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.47%
- Price / 1D
- $56.39+0.62%
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETFVTI- Market value
- 27.69M
- Weight
- 0.00%
- AUM
- 2.3T USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Price / 1D
- $378.24+0.44%
iShares Russell 2000 ETFIWM- Market value
- 27.48M
- Weight
- 0.03%
- AUM
- 81.62B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.19%
- Price / 1D
- $299.96+0.77%
U.S. Micro Cap Portfolio ETFDFMC- Market value
- 19.59M
- Weight
- 0.24%
- AUM
- 8.06B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.43%
- Price / 1D
- $60.95+0.73%
Gabelli Love Our Planet & People ETFLOPP- Market value
- 14.32M
- Weight
- 0.79%
- AUM
- 18.1M USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.90%
- Price / 1D
- $37.62+0.55%
Vanguard Extended Market ETFVXF- Market value
- 10.64M
- Weight
- 0.01%
- AUM
- 93.7B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Price / 1D
- $245.53+0.82%
iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETFIWO- Market value
- 9.97M
- Weight
- 0.07%
- AUM
- 15.16B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.24%
- Price / 1D
- $387.37+1.24%
First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index FundGRID- Market value
- 9.42M
- Weight
- 0.08%
- AUM
- 11.85B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.56%
- Price / 1D
- $180.93-0.13%
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