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Best Specialty Industrial Machinery Stocks to Buy Now (2026)
Top specialty industrial machinery stocks in 2026 ranked by overall Zen Rating. "A" Rated stocks have returned an average of +28.50% per year, and are the best specialty industrial machinery stocks to buy now. Learn More.

Industry: Specialty Industrial Mach...

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Specialty Industrial Machinery is Zen Rated B and is the 56th ranked industry out of 145 stock market industries

Ticker	Company	Exchange	Industry	Market Cap	Price	1d %	EBITDA	P/E	D/E	Country
PKOH	PARK OHIO HOLDINGS CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$710.45M	$49.03	1.20%	$112.70M	25.54x	2.76	United States
TWIN	TWIN DISC INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$381.79M	$26.26	0.92%	$29.93M	13.68x	0.83	United States
GNRC	GENERAC HOLDINGS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$13.27B	$224.94	0.24%	$618.85M	50.89x	1.01	United States
GRC	GORMAN RUPP CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.95B	$73.99	1.30%	$129.56M	31.09x	0.96	United States
EPAC	ENERPAC TOOL GROUP CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.79B	$34.93	0.06%	$150.30M	19.62x	0.91	United States
HLIO	HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$2.29B	$69.53	2.33%	$170.40M	32.19x	0.60	United States
GTES	GATES INDUSTRIAL CORP LTD	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$6.75B	$26.67	-0.26%	$666.60M	18.65x	0.99	United States
EMR	EMERSON ELECTRIC CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$90.27B	$161.83	1.74%	$5.11B	35.26x	1.07	United States
HURC	HURCO COMPANIES INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$136.00M	$21.00	-0.28%	-$2.73M	-20.39x	0.35	United States
WTS	WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$11.77B	$352.72	1.61%	$592.30M	30.81x	0.35	United States
CMI	CUMMINS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$72.05B	$523.39	0.57%	$5.18B	26.62x	1.69	United States
NDSN	NORDSON CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$18.28B	$328.17	0.40%	$912.69M	33.05x	0.82	United States
KAI	KADANT INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.08B	$260.43	-0.05%	$230.84M	28.00x	0.84	United States
CSW	CSW INDUSTRIALS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.69B	$287.59	0.34%	$265.45M	39.23x	1.16	United States
CXT	CRANE NXT CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$2.90B	$50.45	4.71%	$373.70M	20.68x	1.82	United States
FELE	FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.32B	$97.72	0.88%	$306.39M	28.00x	0.53	United States
MWA	MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.38B	$21.67	0.51%	$337.20M	15.15x	0.74	United States
PH	PARKER-HANNIFIN CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$121.33B	$962.56	1.65%	$5.90B	33.32x	1.00	United States
NPO	ENPRO INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$6.59B	$311.45	1.23%	$197.50M	149.74x	0.68	United States
SPXC	SPX TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$8.49B	$169.46	0.52%	$528.10M	30.05x	0.68	United States
BW	BABCOCK & WILCOX ENTERPRISES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$813.35M	$5.46	-0.73%	$24.75M	-39.00x	16.42	United States
ETN	EATON CORP PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$166.88B	$429.65	1.21%	$6.44B	43.62x	1.77	Ireland
CR	CRANE CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$11.83B	$204.75	1.30%	$558.50M	35.12x	0.85	United States
RRX	REGAL REXNORD CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$10.99B	$165.03	3.14%	$1.28B	33.82x	0.99	United States
PSIX	POWER SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.15B	$50.07	3.24%	$100.75M	16.97x	1.23	United States
CYD	CHINA YUCHAI INTERNATIONAL LTD	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.12B	$29.82	2.58%	$136.19M	14.20x	1.99	Singapore
KRNT	KORNIT DIGITAL LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$784.56M	$18.30	0.80%	-$27.41M	-38.13x	0.13	Israel
ROK	ROCKWELL AUTOMATION INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$48.04B	$432.59	-0.36%	$1.89B	40.35x	2.17	United States
IEX	IDEX CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$17.27B	$234.29	1.10%	$958.00M	33.66x	0.73	United States
AME	AMETEK INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$56.99B	$248.58	0.43%	$2.42B	36.24x	0.47	United States
XMTR	XOMETRY INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$6.37B	$111.07	4.31%	-$182.00k	-185.12x	0.78	United States
INIO	INNIO NV	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$14.84B	$19.79	3.07%	N/A	N/A	26.31
DCI	DONALDSON CO INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$10.08B	$86.93	-0.26%	$727.80M	22.18x	1.26	United States
MIR	MIRION TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.14B	$16.62	2.47%	$214.10M	151.09x	0.90	United States
ITT	ITT INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$18.00B	$201.37	1.34%	$922.60M	39.25x	1.30	United States
TAYD	TAYLOR DEVICES INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$190.30M	$58.92	0.51%	$7.17M	27.40x	0.10	United States
DOV	DOVER CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$25.43B	$188.83	-0.07%	$1.92B	22.59x	0.78	United States
SXI	STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.45B	$285.01	1.41%	$208.25M	32.80x	1.10	United States
AOS	SMITH A O CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$7.66B	$56.38	-0.32%	$758.70M	15.66x	0.98	United States
ITW	ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$75.22B	$264.13	-0.22%	$4.82B	23.88x	4.70	United States
MIDD	MIDDLEBY CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.79B	$105.95	0.52%	-$142.25M	-11.32x	1.43	United States
EROC	EROCK INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$575.68M	$11.95	-2.13%	N/A	N/A	14.66	United States
IR	INGERSOLL RAND INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$30.55B	$78.75	0.96%	$2.00B	32.27x	0.78	United States
TNC	TENNANT CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.12B	$65.93	-0.02%	$96.70M	63.39x	1.38	United States
XYL	XYLEM INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$23.98B	$102.71	0.71%	$1.87B	24.45x	0.64	United States
GGG	GRACO INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$12.67B	$78.21	-0.20%	$763.49M	24.14x	0.24	United States
MFP	MIDERA FOOD PROCESSING INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.85B	$40.97	1.46%	N/A	N/A	0.79	United States
FLS	FLOWSERVE CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.19B	$72.28	3.78%	$711.62M	24.92x	1.77	United States
OTIS	OTIS WORLDWIDE CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$25.11B	$65.95	-0.24%	$2.39B	16.87x	-2.89	United States
PNR	PENTAIR PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$8.38B	$52.47	0.33%	$945.20M	13.08x	0.79	United Kingdom
OFLX	OMEGA FLEX INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$265.68M	$26.32	0.27%	$15.79M	22.12x	0.23	United States
JBTM	JBT MAREL CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$5.55B	$107.08	1.63%	$559.60M	29.10x	0.79	United States
INLF	INLIF LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.30M	$3.02	-6.21%	-$1.82M	-0.00x	0.16	China
CVV	CVD EQUIPMENT CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$29.06M	$4.18	-0.24%	$10.61M	2.88x	0.07	United States
SYM	SYMBOTIC INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$25.78B	$42.63	1.36%	$47.99M	473.67x	3.37	United States
GHM	GRAHAM CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$966.78M	$82.37	1.01%	$22.71M	77.71x	0.89	United States
SHMD	SCHMID GROUP NV	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$220.80M	$3.82	-3.78%	N/A	N/A	-5.03	Germany
AMSC	AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.48B	$30.52	-1.39%	$30.45M	10.04x	0.33	United States
ATS	ATS CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.71B	$17.65	-0.17%	$236.97M	51.46x	1.38	Canada
WFF	WF HOLDING LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$557.48M	$12.29	499.51%	-$87.25M	-1.00x	0.73	Malaysia
RR	RICHTECH ROBOTICS INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$369.17M	$1.64	2.50%	-$56.38M	-4.32x	0.01	United States
CEPL	CAPSTONE ENERGY PLUS INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$143.64M	$4.36	3.07%	$14.59M	-1.39x	-1.88	United States
LBGJ	LI BANG INTERNATIONAL CORP INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$12.97k	$1.87	-6.50%	$216.56k	-0.00x	0.63	China
BLDP	BALLARD POWER SYSTEMS INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$575.88M	$1.91	-1.55%	-$71.28M	-7.35x	0.15	Canada
BWEN	BROADWIND INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$91.55M	$3.87	0.26%	$13.38M	16.83x	0.71	United States
BURU	NUBURU INC	NYSEMKT	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$8.60M	$0.93	-4.62%	-$55.97M	3.87x	5.73	United States
GFUZ	GENERAL FUSION GROUP LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$458.88M	$8.66	-0.57%	N/A	N/A	-1.04	United States
FISN	DEEP FISSION INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$262.13M	$4.45	-4.51%	N/A	-1.84x	0.09	United States
NNE	NANO NUCLEAR ENERGY INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$823.73M	$15.34	0.52%	-$32.53M	-22.23x	0.02	United States
XE	X-ENERGY INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.94B	$13.71	-0.44%	N/A	N/A	0.09	United States
LASE	LASER PHOTONICS CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$37.13M	$0.74	-0.54%	-$14.99M	-0.74x	-12.61	United States
SMR	NUSCALE POWER CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.09B	$7.20	-1.64%	-$414.50M	-2.47x	0.02	United States
NPWR	NET POWER INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$276.58M	$1.23	-0.81%	-$1.43B	-0.19x	0.31	United States
TRBG	TURBOGEN LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$89.61M	$3.52	1.73%	N/A	N/A	3.96
LXFR	LUXFER HOLDINGS PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$461.33M	$17.24	0.06%	$31.20M	57.47x	0.75	United Kingdom
GTEC	GREENLAND TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$15.73M	$0.77	-0.91%	$19.20M	N/A	0.73	China
ZJK	ZJK INDUSTRIAL CO LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$121.90M	$1.91	6.11%	$15.02M	13.64x	0.65	China
CETY	CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$11.98M	$0.99	-3.43%	-$3.20M	-0.84x	1.33	United States
JCSE	JE CLEANTECH HOLDINGS LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$7.30M	$1.39	-1.42%	$3.67M	2.85x	0.67	Singapore
GCDT	GREEN CIRCLE DECARBONIZE TECHNOLOGY LTD	NYSEMKT	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.07M	$0.50	-11.66%	-$1.12M	-0.53x	0.19	Hong Kong
HUHU	HUHUTECH INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$78.75M	$2.94	-2.00%	-$24.61M	-2.80x	2.00	China
HDRN	HADRON ENERGY INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$76.50M	$1.07	1.90%	-$43.87M	0.07x	0.20	United States

Specialty Industrial Machinery Stocks FAQ

What are the best specialty industrial machinery stocks to buy right now in Oct 2026?

According to Zen Ratings, our proprietary rating system that evaluates 115 factors proven to drive growth in stocks and assigns each stock in our system an overall letter grade as well as 7 individual Component Grades for Value, Growth, Momentum, Sentiment, Safety, Financials, and proprietary AI algorithms, the 3 best specialty industrial machinery stocks to buy right now are:

1. Park Ohio Holdings (NASDAQ:PKOH)

Park Ohio Holdings (NASDAQ:PKOH) is the #1 top specialty industrial machinery stock out of 82 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +28.5% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Park Ohio Holdings (NASDAQ:PKOH) is: Value: C, Growth: A, Momentum: A, Sentiment: B, Safety: A, Financials: C, and AI: C.

Park Ohio Holdings (NASDAQ:PKOH) has a Due Diligence Score of 44, which is 6 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 38.

PKOH passed 16 out of 38 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Park Ohio Holdings has seen its stock return 144.42% over the past year, overperforming other specialty industrial machinery stocks by 205 percentage points.

Park Ohio Holdings has an average 1 year price target of $59.00, an upside of 20.33% from Park Ohio Holdings's current stock price of $49.03.

Park Ohio Holdings stock has a consensus Strong Buy recommendation according to Wall Street analysts. Of the 1 analyst covering Park Ohio Holdings, 100% have issued a Strong Buy rating, 0% have issued a Buy, 0% have issued a hold, while 0% have issued a Sell rating, and 0% have issued a Strong Sell.

2. Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN)

Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN) is the #2 top specialty industrial machinery stock out of 82 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +28.5% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN) is: Value: C, Growth: B, Momentum: B, Sentiment: B, Safety: C, Financials: B, and AI: B.

Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN) has a Due Diligence Score of 44, which is 6 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 38.

TWIN passed 15 out of 38 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Twin Disc has seen its stock return 79.62% over the past year, overperforming other specialty industrial machinery stocks by 140 percentage points.

Twin Disc has an average 1 year price target of $30.00, an upside of 14.24% from Twin Disc's current stock price of $26.26.

Twin Disc stock has a consensus Strong Buy recommendation according to Wall Street analysts. Of the 1 analyst covering Twin Disc, 100% have issued a Strong Buy rating, 0% have issued a Buy, 0% have issued a hold, while 0% have issued a Sell rating, and 0% have issued a Strong Sell.

3. Generac Holdings (NYSE:GNRC)

Generac Holdings (NYSE:GNRC) is the #3 top specialty industrial machinery stock out of 82 with a Zen Rating of B. Stocks with a rating of B have had an average return of +17.17% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Generac Holdings (NYSE:GNRC) is: Value: C, Growth: A, Momentum: C, Sentiment: C, Safety: B, Financials: B, and AI: C.

Generac Holdings (NYSE:GNRC) has a Due Diligence Score of 49, which is 11 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 38.

GNRC passed 16 out of 33 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Generac Holdings has seen its stock return 30.84% over the past year, overperforming other specialty industrial machinery stocks by 92 percentage points.

Generac Holdings has an average 1 year price target of $292.81, an upside of 30.17% from Generac Holdings's current stock price of $224.94.

Generac Holdings stock has a consensus Strong Buy recommendation according to Wall Street analysts. Of the 16 analysts covering Generac Holdings, 75% have issued a Strong Buy rating, 6.25% have issued a Buy, 18.75% have issued a hold, while 0% have issued a Sell rating, and 0% have issued a Strong Sell.

What are the specialty industrial machinery stocks with highest dividends?

Out of 39 specialty industrial machinery stocks that have issued dividends in the past year, the 3 specialty industrial machinery stocks with the highest dividend yields are:

1. Omega Flex (NASDAQ:OFLX)

Omega Flex (NASDAQ:OFLX) has an annual dividend yield of 5.17%, which is 4 percentage points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 1.25%. Omega Flex's dividend payout is not stable, having dropped more than 10% two times in the last 10 years. Omega Flex's dividend has not shown consistent growth over the last 10 years.

Omega Flex's dividend payout ratio of 114.3% indicates that its high dividend yield might not be sustainable for the long-term.

2. Luxfer Holdings (NYSE:LXFR)

Luxfer Holdings (NYSE:LXFR) has an annual dividend yield of 3.02%, which is 2 percentage points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 1.25%. Luxfer Holdings's dividend payout is stable, having never dropped by more than 10% in the last 10 years. Luxfer Holdings's dividend has shown consistent growth over the last 10 years.

Luxfer Holdings's dividend payout ratio of 173.3% indicates that its dividend yield might not be sustainable for the long-term.

3. China Yuchai International (NYSE:CYD)

China Yuchai International (NYSE:CYD) has an annual dividend yield of 2.92%, which is 2 percentage points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 1.25%. China Yuchai International's dividend payout is not stable, having dropped more than 10% three times in the last 10 years. China Yuchai International's dividend has not shown consistent growth over the last 10 years.

China Yuchai International's dividend payout ratio of 25.2% indicates that its dividend yield is sustainable for the long-term.

Why are specialty industrial machinery stocks up?

Specialty industrial machinery stocks were up 1.06% in the last day, and down -1.29% over the last week.

We couldn't find a catalyst for why specialty industrial machinery stocks are up.

What are the most undervalued specialty industrial machinery stocks?

Based on the Valuation rating, one of the 7 components of a stocks overall Zen Ratings grade, which evaluates factors including estimated earnings yield, earnings before interest and taxes/enterprise value, cash flow yield, free cash flow to price, and price-to-earnings growth (PEG ratio), the 3 most undervalued specialty industrial machinery stocks right now are:

1. Pentair (NYSE:PNR)

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) is the most undervalued specialty industrial machinery stock based on its Valuation Rating of A. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

Pentair has a valuation score of 43, which is 12 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 31. It passed 3 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Pentair's stock has dropped -52.23% in the past year. It has overperformed other stocks in the specialty industrial machinery industry by 9 percentage points.

2. China Yuchai International (NYSE:CYD)

China Yuchai International (NYSE:CYD) is the second most undervalued specialty industrial machinery stock based on its Valuation Rating of A. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

China Yuchai International has a valuation score of 71, which is 40 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 31. It passed 5 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

China Yuchai International's stock has dropped -20.99% in the past year. It has overperformed other stocks in the specialty industrial machinery industry by 40 percentage points.

3. Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA)

Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) is the third most undervalued specialty industrial machinery stock based on its Valuation Rating of A. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

Mueller Water Products has a valuation score of 43, which is 12 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 31. It passed 3 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Mueller Water Products's stock has dropped -13.8% in the past year. It has overperformed other stocks in the specialty industrial machinery industry by 47 percentage points.

Are specialty industrial machinery stocks a good buy now?

48.33% of specialty industrial machinery stocks rated by analysts are a strong buy right now. On average, analysts expect specialty industrial machinery stocks to rise by 25.07% over the next year.

2.74% of specialty industrial machinery stocks have a Zen Rating of A (Strong Buy), 19.18% of specialty industrial machinery stocks are rated B (Buy), 60.27% are rated C (Hold), 13.7% are rated D (Sell), and 4.11% are rated F (Strong Sell).

What is the average p/e ratio of the specialty industrial machinery industry?

The average P/E ratio of the specialty industrial machinery industry is 42.75x.

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