Stocks · Industrials · Specialty Business Services
Ennis, Inc. EBF
$22.56 +0.04% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NYSE · Market cap $570.7M
High qualityInexpensive vs sectorLow risk
Next earnings report: Dec 21, 2026
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Three things to know
- The stock is in an uptrend: above its 200-day average for 184 trading days, with the 50-day average above the 200-day.
- The company holds net cash of $50.7M (cash above total debt).
- Revenue over the last four quarters was $397.2M, up 2.3% from a year earlier.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Industrials sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 27%
- EPS growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 35%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Top 33%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 20%
- Revenue growth accelerationBottom 45%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalTop 19%
- Gross marginTop 44%
- Operating marginTop 27%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Top 39%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 23%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 12%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldTop 7%
- Free-cash-flow yieldTop 8%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 9%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 31%
- P/E vs own 5-year history (lower is better)Bottom 33%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 43%
- 6-month returnTop 49%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 36%
- Distance from 52-week highTop 2%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 10%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersBottom 29%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 16%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 1%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 22%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 3%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 12%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 1.3% | 2.3% | ↑ |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 10.6% | -5.6% | ↓ |
| Gross margin | 30.1% | 30.6% | ↑ |
| Operating margin | 13.1% | 13.6% | ↑ |
| FCF margin | 11.4% | 15.0% | ↑ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 2.3% | 1.3% | ↑ | Bottom 27% |
| EPS growth (TTM, YoY) | -5.6% | 10.6% | ↓ | Bottom 35% |
| Gross margin | 30.6% | 30.1% | ↑ | Top 44% |
| Operating margin | 13.6% | 13.1% | ↑ | Top 27% |
| Net margin | 9.8% | 10.9% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 15.0% | 11.4% | ↑ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 11.9% | — | Top 19% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | -3.1% | — | Bottom 20% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- 1.76×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -8.1%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.2%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- -13.2 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- -0.76×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 3.36%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- 1.03%
- Shareholder yield
- 4.40%
- Share count change, 1 year
- -3.2%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- -0.9%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Aug 31, 2026 (filed Sep 21, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 0
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 3 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- -2.6%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- -0.9%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 3 of 7
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | -5.1% | +0.8% | +3.8% | — | — |
| Jun 22, 2026 | +0.0% | +0.6% | +7.7% | +4.9% | +4.7% |
| Apr 20, 2026 | -7.9% | -8.8% | -6.2% | -7.6% | -2.3% |
| Dec 22, 2025 | +2.4% | +0.8% | +2.0% | +8.2% | +13.2% |
| Sep 22, 2025 | +24.4% | +2.5% | +1.2% | -5.2% | +1.1% |
| Jun 23, 2025 | +2.7% | +4.2% | +0.4% | -2.7% | -0.4% |
| Apr 21, 2025 | -5.4% | -7.8% | -4.4% | +4.1% | -5.4% |
| Dec 23, 2024 | +0.0% | +0.7% | +2.9% | -0.1% | -2.2% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.39 | -5.1% | $102.0M |
| Jun 22, 2026 | $0.39 | $0.39 | +0.0% | $98.6M |
| Apr 20, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.38 | -7.9% | $96.4M |
| Dec 22, 2025 | $0.42 | $0.41 | +2.4% | $100.2M |
| Sep 22, 2025 | $0.51 | $0.41 | +24.4% | $98.7M |
| Jun 23, 2025 | $0.38 | $0.37 | +2.7% | $97.2M |
| Apr 21, 2025 | $0.35 | $0.37 | -5.4% | $92.7M |
| Dec 23, 2024 | $0.39 | $0.39 | +0.0% | $99.8M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 14.7× | 12.9× | 76th | Top 7% |
| P/E (forward) | 14.4× | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | 7.8× | — | — | Top 9% |
| EV / Sales | 1.31× | — | — | Top 31% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | 10.43% | — | — | Top 8% |
| Earnings yield | 6.78% | — | — | Top 7% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 11.0× – 18.4× since Aug 31, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
What moved the stock over the past year
- Price return, 1 year
- +23.4%
- Earnings per share growth (TTM)
- -5.6%
- Change in P/E multiple
- +25.3%
Most of the move came from a change in the valuation multiple.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✓ Price above 20-day average
- ✓ Price above 50-day average
- ✓ Price above 200-day average
- ✓ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✓ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 9
- Days above the 200-day average
- 184
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.8%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +2.1%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +3.4%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +8.6%
- RSI (14)
- 70.0
- Relative volume
- 0.85×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 15.3%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 1th percentile · Low for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.24
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.16
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- +0.0%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -35.1%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2024 | Nov 17, 2025 | -35.1% | 288 days | Not yet recovered |
| Mar 8, 2021 | Jun 16, 2022 | -23.3% | 323 days | 28 days (Jul 28, 2022) |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Apr 15, 2024 | -18.3% | 356 days | 63 days (Jul 16, 2024) |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Oct 30, 2020 | -15.2% | 17 days | 43 days (Jan 4, 2021) |
| Aug 19, 2022 | Oct 7, 2022 | -11.8% | 34 days | 15 days (Oct 28, 2022) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $570.7M
- P/E (TTM)
- 14.7
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $1.53
- Revenue (TTM)
- $397.2M
- Dividend yield
- 5.60%
- 52-week range
- $16.30 – $22.94
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $400.0M | $431.8M | $420.1M | $394.6M | $392.4M |
| Gross profit | $114.7M | $131.1M | $125.3M | $117.3M | $120.4M |
| Operating income | $43.6M | $66.2M | $56.5M | $51.9M | $52.7M |
| Net income | $29.0M | $47.3M | $42.6M | $40.2M | $42.6M |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.11 | $1.82 | $1.64 | $1.54 | $1.66 |
| Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 | Q1 2027 | Q2 2027 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $99.8M | $92.7M | $97.2M | $98.7M | $100.2M | $96.4M | $98.6M | $102.0M |
| Net income | $10.2M | $9.0M | $9.8M | $13.2M | $10.8M | $8.8M | $9.9M | $9.4M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.39 | $0.34 | $0.38 | $0.51 | $0.42 | $0.35 | $0.39 | $0.37 |
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $50.7M | $46.8M | $69.1M | $65.9M | $52.7M |
| Capital expenditure | -$6.5M | -$4.3M | -$6.5M | -$5.9M | -$52.7M |
| Free cash flow | $44.1M | $42.4M | $62.6M | $60.0M | $0 |
| Dividends paid | -$25.4M | -$25.8M | -$25.9M | -$92.0M | -$25.9M |
| Net share buybacks | -$4.8M | -$1.1M | -$586,000 | -$1.7M | -$14.4M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $54.0M
- Total assets
- $365.1M
- Total liabilities
- $50.9M
- Total debt
- $3.3M
- Net debt
- -$50.7M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $314.2M
As of Aug 31, 2026 (filed Sep 21, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.26 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| Jul 10, 2026 | $0.25 | Aug 10, 2026 |
| Apr 13, 2026 | $0.25 | May 4, 2026 |
| Jan 8, 2026 | $0.25 | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Oct 10, 2025 | $0.25 | Nov 7, 2025 |
| Jul 11, 2025 | $0.25 | Aug 11, 2025 |
| Apr 14, 2025 | $0.25 | May 5, 2025 |
| Jan 10, 2025 | $0.25 | Feb 6, 2025 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 2,341,305
- Days to cover
- 17.36
- Change vs previous report
- +5.6%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.
Stock splits
- Aug 1, 1991
- 3-for-2
- Jul 25, 1989
- 3-for-2
- Mar 23, 1987
- 3-for-2
- Jul 18, 1985
- 2-for-1
- Jul 12, 1983
- 2-for-1