KAI Kadant Inc. — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Kadant Inc. supplies technologies and engineered systems worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Flow Control, Industrial Processing, and Material Handling. The Flow Control segment develops, manufactures, and markets fluid-handling systems, equipment, and integrated technologies, such as rotary joints, syphons, Turbulator bars, expansion joints, and engineered steam and condensate systems, as well as doctor systems and holders, doctor blades, cleaning showers and fabric-conditioning systems, forming systems and wear surfaces, and water-filtration systems. The Industrial Processing segment provides ring and rotary debarkers, stranders, chippers, engineered knife systems, and industrial automation and control products. This segment also offers recycling and approach flow systems, virgin pulping process equipment, boiler cleaning technologies, and single and double-screw presses. The Material Handling segment provides vibratory and conveying equipment; individual components and equipment for baling recyclable and waste materials; and fiber-based products. It sells its products and services through direct sales, independent sales agents, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Thermo Fibertek, Inc. and changed its name to Kadant Inc. in July 2001. Kadant Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.
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Research Scores
Scores describe this security's published financial data on a 0–100 scale using the formulas on our methodology pages. They are the same for every reader, are not a probability or a forecast, and are not a recommendation. Past dividend growth does not guarantee future increases. Report a data error.
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for KAI
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 15% (TTM to Jul 4, 2026) | 100 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 10% (TTM to Jul 4, 2026) | 100 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | N/A (not used) | N/A | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 9.6x (TTM to Jul 4, 2026) | 88 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 13 years of uninterrupted regular payments | 74 | 20% |
| Earnings stability | Net income positive in 5 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2021–FY2025) | 100 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Growth Score is built for KAI
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR 7.1% (2020–2025) | 86 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 11 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 81 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 15% (TTM to Jul 4, 2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR -5.8% (FY2022–FY2025) | 13 | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | Revenue CAGR 5.2% (FY2022–FY2025) | 82 | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR 7.3% (2015–2025) | 87 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Value Score is built for KAI
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yield vs own history | Current yield at the 45th percentile of its 120 month-end yields | 45 | 40% |
| P/E vs own 5-year median | P/E 28.2 is 0.88x its 5-year median of 32.0 | 68 | 25% |
| FCF yield | FCF yield 5.0% (TTM to Jul 4, 2026) | 67 | 20% |
| P/E vs peers | P/E 28.2 vs peer median 25.7 (1.10x; 145 corporation / Industrials securities) | 40 | 15% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
Key Metrics
Current Yield
0.53%
At the Oct 30, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$1.4400
Declared Sep 10, 2026
The latest declared regular dividend scaled to a full year by how often it's paid (for semi-annual payers, the latest two payments), adjusted for stock splits. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00. Special dividends are excluded.Frequency
Q Quarterly
How often the dividend is paid, read from the dates of recent payments: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.RSI (14)
54
As of Oct 30, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$247.48 – $347.31
Closes through Oct 23, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year, showing where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio (TTM)
15.73%
12 months to Jul 04, 2026 (Q2 FY2026)
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
13
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
3.03
Price as of Oct 25, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
How often a record like this ends in a cut
KAI has raised its annual dividend in 11 separate years since April 2013, which ranks 1014 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. No year in that span saw the annual total fall by more than a fifth.
Of the 878 companies we track with 10 to 24 years of increases, 661 — 75 per cent — also have at least one year in which the dividend fell by more than 20 per cent. Across every company with twenty years of comparable history, only 277 of 1078 (26 per cent) have never cut. A long record of increases is common; a record with no cut anywhere in it is not.
Measured from annual totals using split-adjusted amounts, comparing only consecutive years with the same number of payments — a stock split and a payment shifting across a year boundary both look like cuts otherwise. The current year is excluded as incomplete. How we measure a cut, and what the corrections change. Figures are for information only, not a view on any security.
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
KAI's dividend yield rose from 0.44% to 0.53% over the past ~90 days (+0.09 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +0.09 pp from the share price ($324.56 on Aug 03, 2026 → $271.33 on Oct 30, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 272 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), KAI's current yield is higher than approximately 88% of them. Our stored price history for KAI covers the past 13 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | Sep 10, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | May 21, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 |
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | Mar 11, 2026 | Apr 15, 2026 | Apr 15, 2026 | May 13, 2026 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Nov 13, 2025 | Jan 08, 2026 | Jan 08, 2026 | Feb 05, 2026 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Sep 04, 2025 | Oct 09, 2025 | Oct 09, 2025 | Nov 06, 2025 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | May 15, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 | Aug 07, 2025 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Mar 05, 2025 | Apr 09, 2025 | Apr 09, 2025 | May 07, 2025 |
| $0.3200 Q | Regular | Nov 14, 2024 | Jan 10, 2025 | Jan 10, 2025 | Feb 06, 2025 |
| $0.3200 Q | Regular | Sep 05, 2024 | Oct 10, 2024 | Oct 10, 2024 | Nov 07, 2024 |
| $0.3200 Q | Regular | May 16, 2024 | Jul 11, 2024 | Jul 11, 2024 | Aug 08, 2024 |
| $0.3200 Q | Regular | Mar 06, 2024 | Apr 09, 2024 | Apr 10, 2024 | May 08, 2024 |
| $0.2900 Q | Regular | Nov 16, 2023 | Jan 03, 2024 | Jan 04, 2024 | Feb 01, 2024 |
| $0.2900 Q | Regular | Sep 07, 2023 | Oct 11, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 | Nov 09, 2023 |
| $0.2900 Q | Regular | May 18, 2023 | Jul 12, 2023 | Jul 13, 2023 | Aug 10, 2023 |
| $0.2900 Q | Regular | Mar 08, 2023 | Apr 11, 2023 | Apr 12, 2023 | May 10, 2023 |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | Nov 17, 2022 | Jan 04, 2023 | Jan 05, 2023 | Feb 02, 2023 |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | Sep 08, 2022 | Oct 12, 2022 | Oct 13, 2022 | Nov 10, 2022 |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | May 19, 2022 | Jul 13, 2022 | Jul 14, 2022 | Aug 11, 2022 |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | Mar 09, 2022 | Apr 12, 2022 | Apr 13, 2022 | May 11, 2022 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Nov 18, 2021 | Jan 05, 2022 | Jan 06, 2022 | Feb 03, 2022 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Sep 09, 2021 | Oct 13, 2021 | Oct 14, 2021 | Nov 11, 2021 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | May 20, 2021 | Jul 14, 2021 | Jul 15, 2021 | Aug 12, 2021 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Mar 10, 2021 | Apr 13, 2021 | Apr 14, 2021 | May 12, 2021 |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | Nov 19, 2020 | Jan 06, 2021 | Jan 07, 2021 | Feb 04, 2021 |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | Sep 17, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Oct 15, 2020 | Nov 12, 2020 |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | May 13, 2020 | Jul 08, 2020 | Jul 09, 2020 | Aug 06, 2020 |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | Mar 03, 2020 | Apr 06, 2020 | Apr 07, 2020 | May 05, 2020 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | Nov 21, 2019 | Jan 08, 2020 | Jan 09, 2020 | Feb 06, 2020 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | Sep 11, 2019 | Oct 09, 2019 | Oct 10, 2019 | Nov 07, 2019 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | May 15, 2019 | Jul 10, 2019 | Jul 11, 2019 | Aug 08, 2019 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | Mar 05, 2019 | Apr 08, 2019 | Apr 09, 2019 | May 07, 2019 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Dec 04, 2018 | Jan 08, 2019 | Jan 09, 2019 | Feb 06, 2019 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Sep 12, 2018 | Oct 10, 2018 | Oct 11, 2018 | Nov 08, 2018 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | May 16, 2018 | Jul 11, 2018 | Jul 12, 2018 | Aug 09, 2018 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Mar 08, 2018 | Apr 11, 2018 | Apr 12, 2018 | May 10, 2018 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | Nov 15, 2017 | Jan 10, 2018 | Jan 11, 2018 | Feb 08, 2018 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | Sep 20, 2017 | Oct 11, 2017 | Oct 12, 2017 | Nov 09, 2017 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | May 19, 2017 | Jul 11, 2017 | Jul 13, 2017 | Aug 10, 2017 |
| $0.2100 Q | Regular | Mar 08, 2017 | Apr 11, 2017 | Apr 13, 2017 | May 11, 2017 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | Nov 16, 2016 | Jan 10, 2017 | Jan 12, 2017 | Feb 09, 2017 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | Sep 14, 2016 | Oct 11, 2016 | Oct 13, 2016 | Nov 10, 2016 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | May 18, 2016 | Jul 12, 2016 | Jul 14, 2016 | Aug 11, 2016 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | Mar 08, 2016 | Apr 12, 2016 | Apr 14, 2016 | May 12, 2016 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Nov 18, 2015 | Jan 12, 2016 | Jan 14, 2016 | Feb 11, 2016 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Sep 16, 2015 | Oct 13, 2015 | Oct 15, 2015 | Nov 12, 2015 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | May 20, 2015 | Jul 14, 2015 | Jul 16, 2015 | Aug 13, 2015 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Mar 09, 2015 | Apr 14, 2015 | Apr 16, 2015 | May 14, 2015 |
| $0.1500 Q | Regular | Nov 20, 2014 | Jan 14, 2015 | Jan 16, 2015 | Feb 13, 2015 |
| $0.1500 Q | Regular | Sep 15, 2014 | Oct 10, 2014 | Oct 15, 2014 | Nov 12, 2014 |
| $0.1500 Q | Regular | May 20, 2014 | Jul 14, 2014 | Jul 16, 2014 | Aug 13, 2014 |
| $0.1500 Q | Regular | Mar 05, 2014 | Apr 07, 2014 | Apr 09, 2014 | May 07, 2014 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | Dec 10, 2013 | Jan 07, 2014 | Jan 09, 2014 | Feb 06, 2014 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | Sep 19, 2013 | Oct 08, 2013 | Oct 10, 2013 | Nov 07, 2013 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | May 23, 2013 | Jul 09, 2013 | Jul 11, 2013 | Aug 08, 2013 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | Feb 26, 2013 | Apr 09, 2013 | Apr 11, 2013 | May 09, 2013 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Industrial - Machinery dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOS | A. O. Smith Corporation | 2.39% | 7.1% | 33 yrs | 95 |
| GGG | Graco Inc. | 1.72% | 9.5% | 26 yrs | 93 |
| XYL | Xylem Inc. | 1.90% | 9.0% | 13 yrs | 92 |
| PNR | Pentair plc | 1.64% | 5.6% | 6 yrs | 82 |
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KAI dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Kadant Inc. pay a dividend?
Yes. Kadant Inc. (KAI) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $1.44 per share, a yield of approximately 0.53%.
What is Kadant Inc.'s dividend yield?
Kadant Inc.'s dividend yield is approximately 0.53%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Kadant Inc. pay dividends?
Kadant Inc. pays dividends quarterly — 4 times per year.
How long has Kadant Inc. paid dividends?
Kadant Inc. has 13 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Data updated Oct 30, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.