Lincoln Electric Holdings LECO Price / earnings
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Lincoln Electric Holdings’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
The official record: Lincoln Electric Holdings’s 10-Q, filed April 30, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Lincoln Electric Holdings's price / earnings?
- Lincoln Electric Holdings (LECO) reported price / earnings of 25.4× in Q1 2026.
- How has Lincoln Electric Holdings's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
- Lincoln Electric Holdings's price / earnings increased by 10.4% year-over-year, from 23× to 25.4×.
- What is the long-term trend for Lincoln Electric Holdings's price / earnings?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Lincoln Electric Holdings's price / earnings has grown at a -4.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 117× to 96×.
- What does price / earnings mean?
- How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
- How do you interpret price / earnings?
- Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
- How does price / earnings compare across companies?
- Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.