Company Analysis

Veralto Corporation (VLTO)

NYSE: VLTO · Instruments For Meas & Testing of Electricity & Elec Signals · Waltham, MA · filing with the SEC since 2023
Grade7.0
◀ Past 7.6● Present 7.2▶ Future 6.2
1 est.

The grade of Veralto Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
7.0/10
◀ Past7.630% of the headline
● Present7.240% of the headline
▶ Future6.230% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
9.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2023.

weight 33% of this tense · 90th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Veralto Corporation's filings since 2023 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
7.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Veralto Corporation's 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.7 billion in fiscal 2021 to $5.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4% a year; it rose in 4 of 4 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.0%bottom 35% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 10% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 15% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 10% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.5% a year. 7% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 22 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 57th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Veralto Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 7% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 22 sales (6 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 25% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 39% 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?

7.2/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
5.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 30%: 30¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 60%: owes 60¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 59th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Veralto Corporation earned about 30 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 43 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 60 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 5% of its family
  • return on equitytop 5% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 28% 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

as filed
8.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 18% of 10 in its family; net margin 17.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Veralto Corporation's standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 5% by size; a net margin of 17.1% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 4.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 35% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$5.50Btop 5% of its family
  • net margin17.1%top 15% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth4.2%top 35% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
8.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 8.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 85th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 15% of 10 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-09-11 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.2 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2023-09-11 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.2 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 10 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: Veralto Corporation's leadership is put at 8.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 15% of 10 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-09-11 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.2 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 45% of 10 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 55th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Veralto Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2.0 billion against debt of $2.7 billion leaves -8.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 18.4% of revenue (top 5%); a gross margin of 59.9% (top 6%); research spending of 4.8% of revenue (bottom 6%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-8.3%bottom 25% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue18.4%top 5% of its family
  • gross margin59.9%top 6% of its family
  • research spending against revenue4.8%bottom 6% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
6.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 32% of 10 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 68th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Veralto Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.2% a year over the last three filed years against 4% over all 5, speeding up (top 35% of its family); the newest year grew 6% (top 35%); research spending grew 7% a year (top 44%); capital spending grew 22.8% a year (top 15%) (its annual reports). Veralto Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Revenuefrom Contractwith Customer Measurement Recurring at $3.4 billion (61%), Revenuefrom Contractwith Customer Measurement Nonrecurring at $2.1 billion (39%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.1 points a yeartop 35% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth6.0%top 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending7.0%top 44% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending22.8%top 15% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.8/10

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

top 32% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 68th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Veralto Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.6% above the $5.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 45% of its family); net income of $940 million against a prior three-year average of $839 million (top 25%); a net margin of 17.1% against 16.7% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace2.6%top 45% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+12%top 25% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+0.4 pointstop 25% of its family

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

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 VLTO · research, not advice