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Home to the best-selling brands in the industry, Douglas Dynamics, Inc. (the Company, we, us, our ) is North America's premier manufacturer and upfitter of commercial work truck attachments and equipment. For more than 75 years, the Company has been innovating products that enable end-users to perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively, providing opportunities for businesses to increas…
$44.62
$0.30 (-0.67%)
EOD Jul 17, 2026
11.22% operating margin is respectable but not wide. ROIC at 11.93%. Suggests the business covers its cost of capital, but doesn't point to a wide moat.
Revenue grew 15.4%, still solid. Margins contracted 4.4pp, which offsets some of the top-line progress.
ROIC dropped from 14.51% to 11.93%, capital efficiency is deteriorating. Operating margin contracted 4.4pp YoY, cost discipline may be slipping.
20.1x earnings, 16.7x FCF. Valuation is in a reasonable range. The main question is whether the business can re-accelerate or if current trajectory is already priced in.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
$679M
▲ +15.4% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
$53M
▼ -16.5% YoY
Op. Margin
11.60%
▼ -4.4pp YoY
ROIC
14.94%
▼ -2.6pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
$63M
▲ +91.4% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
$75M
▲ +81.6% YoY
Net Debt
$92M
Cash & Equiv.
$5M
5Y CAGR: +6.4%
5Y CAGR: +10.5%
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At a P/E of 20.1 and a price-to-free-cash-flow of 16.7, Douglas Dynamics (PLOW) trades around a two-stage DCF intrinsic value of about $53.16 per share, so at $44.62 the stock looks around fair value (19.2% below estimated intrinsic value). A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Douglas Dynamics scores 71/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a solid business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. It currently yields about 2.7%; see dividend safety for coverage and history. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full methodology. This is analysis, not investment advice.
Intrinsiqq's two-stage DCF estimates an intrinsic value of about $53.16 per share for PLOW, projecting its recent free cash flow forward with a growth rate that fades toward a long-run rate and discounting it back to today. Applying a 25% margin of safety gives a more conservative fair-value entry around $39.87. At today's $44.62, that puts the stock about 19.2% below estimated intrinsic value. The result is sensitive to the growth and discount-rate inputs, so it is best to run conservative, base and optimistic cases. You can adjust all of them yourself with the sliders on the DCF tab.
Douglas Dynamics scores 71 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 8 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a solid business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a 11.6% operating margin and a 14.9% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
Yes, Douglas Dynamics pays a regular dividend of about $1.19 per share per year (typically in quarterly installments), a yield of roughly 2.7% at the current price. That is a payout ratio of about 52.8% of earnings, so the dividend is well covered. Douglas Dynamics has grown the dividend at roughly 1.3% a year over the past few years. A low headline yield is not the same as a weak dividend: what matters is how well earnings and free cash flow cover the payout and whether it is growing, not the percentage alone. For PLOW's full payout history, growth streak and dividend-safety score, see the dividends tab.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. PLOW currently trades around its estimated intrinsic value and scores 71/100 on quality (solid). It also yields about 2.7%. A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.