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Nordson Corporation — Intrinsic Value & Fair Price

NDSN
NASDAQIndustrialsIndustrial - MachineryCIK 0000072331nordson.comAbout NDSN
Last close · Oct 16, 2026322.31−6.49 (−1.97%)
Market cap$18.0B
Model value · DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y
162.19
Nordson closed at $322.31 — overvalued by 99% vs model.
100.27the model's range360.13

DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y leads for mature & stable — positive operating income and three years of positive free cash flow. From a five-year discounted cash flow.

Other models
56.45 – 288.70
Wall St. target
365.00 12% below
Above model, 1y
20 of 20 days

Price and model value

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Dividends

Quarterly · as of Oct 16, 2026
Yield, trailing 12 months
1.05%
Past 2 years
low 0.98%high 1.80%
Dividends per share, a year at a time
$1.68Aug ’21$2.18Aug ’22$2.63Aug ’23$2.82Aug ’24$3.16Sep ’25$3.40TTM
Dividends / free cash flow, FY2025
27.1%
Raised
39+ years in a row
Growth, 5 yrs
15.1% a year
Last change
+14.6% · Sep 2026
Every payment, with ex-dates · latest $0.94, paid Oct 2, 2026

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How it is valued

Valued asMature & Stable
Low/slowing growth (~3% recent)Moderate margins (17% net margin)Highly cyclical earnings
What growth the price implies: the reverse DCF

Key figures

FY2025
P/E
37.9×
EV / EBITDA
23.4×
FCF yield
3.6%
Dividend yield, TTM
1.05%
Beta
0.99
Cost of capital (WACC)
8.71%
Full financials

Analyst actions

third-party, quoted
08-24Industrial Alliance Securities · target375.00
08-21Robert W. Baird · target351.00
08-21Oppenheimer · target370.00
05-30Oppenheimer · “Outperform” from “Perform”upgrade
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About Nordson

Nordson Corporation engineers, manufactures, and markets products and systems to dispense, apply, and control adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants, biomaterials, medical components, and other fluids. The Industrial Precision Solutions segment provides dispensing, coating, and laminating systems for adhesives, lotions, liquids, and fibers to disposable products and roll goods; automated adhesive dispensing systems; components and systems for thermoplastic and biopolymer melt stream; fluid components, such as nozzles, pumps, and filters; smart components that measure and control the flow, quantity and location of dispensed fluid; control systems; and product assembly solutions. It also offers automated and manual dispensing products and systems for cold materials, container coating, liquid finishing, and powder coating, as well as ultraviolet equipment. The Medical and Fluid Solutions segment offers precision manual and semi-automated dispensers, plastic molded syringes, cartridges, tips, and fluid connection components; interventional solutions for engineered shafts and interventional delivery systems, medical tubing, balloons, balloon inflators, nitinol devices, cardiovascular cannula, and biomaterial delivery; medical fluid components; and microplegia myocardial protection devices and related consumables. The Advanced Technology Solutions segment provides automated dispensing systems for high-speed, precise application of various attachment, protection, and coating fluids, and related gas plasma treatment systems; destructive and non-destructive testing technologies, such as bond testers and automated optical, acoustic microscopy, and x-ray inspection systems used in the semiconductor and printed circuit board industries; and precision measurement and control technologies. The company markets its products through direct sales force, distributors, and sales representatives. Nordson Corporation was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Westlake, Ohio.

CEO
Sundaram Nagarajan
Headquarters
Westlake, OH
Employees
8,200
IPO
1980-03-18
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