Company Analysis

Flowserve Corporation (FLS)

NYSE: FLS · Pumps & Pumping Equipment · Irving, TX · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.9
◀ Past 6.5● Present 5.5▶ Future 5.9
3 est.

The grade of Flowserve Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past6.530% of the headline
● Present5.540% of the headline
▶ Future5.930% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 6 read as filed from the record and 3 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2023-03-01.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 68 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Flowserve Corporation's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 3 times, the latest 2023-03-01) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
8.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 85th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Flowserve Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • the share of filed years with a profittop 24% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.1% a year. 48% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 5 sales, 2 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 61st percentile among 57 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Flowserve Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 48% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 5 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $232 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 43% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.5/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
5.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 61%: owes 61¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 58th percentile among 65 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Flowserve Corporation earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 28 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 44% of its family
  • return on equitytop 39% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 37% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

SI estimate
5.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

SI estimate 5.2/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
No filed revenue on file, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 64 members with one.
What the record cannot read
No filed revenue on file.
How it was reasoned
family median, 64 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Flowserve Corporation's industry position is put at 5.2 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because no filed revenue on file, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 64 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

Leadership

as filed
5.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 46% of 55 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 54th percentile among 55 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Flowserve Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Rowe, Robert Scott (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-04-07, 9.6 years (top 14% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 31%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (bottom 46%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge9 in three years among 21 peoplebottom 46% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.5 yearsbottom 31% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record9.6 yearstop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.9/1030% of the headline grade · 1 of 3 filed, 2 estimated

Room to expand

SI estimate
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

SI estimate 5.3/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 45% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 65 sector filers · read for itself

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, cash less debt against assets, which ranks in the top 47% of 65 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
How it was reasoned
one part: cash less debt against assets, the one part on file, ranked among 65 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Flowserve Corporation's room to expand is put at 5.3 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, cash less debt against assets, which ranks in the top 47% of 65 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 64 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Flowserve Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: research spending grew 10.7% a year (top 25%); capital spending grew -2.4% a year (bottom 42%) (its annual reports). Flowserve Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: FPD at $3.2 billion (68%), FCD at $1.5 billion (32%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth of research spending10.7%top 25% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-2.4%bottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
7.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 7.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 63 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, net income against the prior three years' average, which ranks in the top 28% of 63 in its family; the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
one part: net income against the prior three years' average, the one part on file, ranked among 63 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Flowserve Corporation's expectations vs reality is put at 7.2 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, net income against the prior three years' average, which ranks in the top 28% of 63 in its family; the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton FLS · research, not advice