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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 +32.52% 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 A and is the 28th ranked industry out of 145 stock market industries

Ticker	Company	Exchange	Industry	Market Cap	Price	1d %	EBITDA	P/E	D/E	Country
TAYD	TAYLOR DEVICES INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$179.73M	$57.00	-20.93%	$12.18M	18.04x	0.09	United States
HLIO	HELIOS TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$2.14B	$64.71	3.14%	$147.30M	44.32x	0.63	United States
GTES	GATES INDUSTRIAL CORP PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$5.74B	$22.61	7.46%	$654.20M	23.07x	1.04	United States
TWIN	TWIN DISC INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$217.33M	$15.07	2.24%	$20.45M	9.85x	1.08	United States
PKOH	PARK OHIO HOLDINGS CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$346.16M	$24.04	2.39%	$107.10M	13.90x	2.72	United States
RRX	REGAL REXNORD CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$12.45B	$187.26	5.09%	$1.24B	44.37x	1.03	United States
FLS	FLOWSERVE CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.35B	$73.51	6.29%	$675.04M	27.64x	1.58	United States
WTS	WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.68B	$290.29	2.29%	$515.00M	28.54x	0.42	United States
CMI	CUMMINS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$74.34B	$538.02	5.14%	$5.28B	26.09x	1.67	United States
CYD	CHINA YUCHAI INTERNATIONAL LTD	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.44B	$38.50	4.59%	$100.08M	34.28x	1.61	Singapore
GRC	GORMAN RUPP CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.63B	$62.13	2.88%	$120.27M	30.76x	1.07	United States
DOV	DOVER CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$28.11B	$208.45	2.78%	$1.86B	26.09x	0.81	United States
CR	CRANE CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.86B	$171.00	6.30%	$529.20M	26.80x	0.87	United States
SPXC	SPX TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.97B	$199.94	4.84%	$483.30M	39.20x	0.61	United States
ATS	ATS CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$2.73B	$28.20	3.98%	$168.16M	204.35x	1.52	Canada
PNR	PENTAIR PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$14.22B	$87.11	3.71%	$947.90M	21.83x	0.78	United Kingdom
PH	PARKER-HANNIFIN CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$112.99B	$895.24	3.92%	$5.49B	32.20x	1.13	United States
ROK	ROCKWELL AUTOMATION INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$40.32B	$358.88	2.98%	$1.64B	40.87x	1.98	United States
BW	BABCOCK & WILCOX ENTERPRISES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.99B	$14.69	11.20%	$23.70M	-30.60x	-6.04	United States
ITT	ITT INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$16.39B	$190.53	5.25%	$839.40M	30.98x	0.54	United States
AME	AMETEK INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$49.08B	$214.36	2.87%	$2.30B	33.39x	0.51	United States
MWA	MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.30B	$27.49	2.38%	$318.00M	21.31x	0.81	United States
ENOV	ENOVIS CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.30B	$22.75	4.89%	-$832.95M	-1.10x	1.57	United States
NDSN	NORDSON CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$14.84B	$266.06	3.86%	$896.10M	28.61x	0.92	United States
EPAC	ENERPAC TOOL GROUP CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.88B	$36.47	3.58%	$139.45M	22.65x	0.95	United States
XYL	XYLEM INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$29.06B	$119.50	2.86%	$1.79B	30.41x	0.51	United States
IR	INGERSOLL RAND INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$31.38B	$80.12	4.13%	$1.56B	54.88x	0.81	United States
LXFR	LUXFER HOLDINGS PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$324.48M	$12.18	2.10%	$32.70M	42.00x	0.63	United Kingdom
KAI	KADANT INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.45B	$292.35	2.62%	$208.66M	33.76x	0.74	United States
DCI	DONALDSON CO INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.83B	$84.87	2.74%	$626.30M	26.19x	0.94	United States
NPO	ENPRO INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$5.33B	$250.65	4.24%	$194.40M	130.55x	0.73	United States
JBTM	JBT MAREL CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$6.65B	$127.87	4.14%	$317.00M	-130.48x	0.84	United States
ETN	EATON CORP PLC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$138.74B	$357.67	4.12%	$6.18B	34.13x	1.12	Ireland
FELE	FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.07B	$92.17	1.80%	$289.05M	28.36x	0.47	United States
SYM	SYMBOTIC INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$32.04B	$53.20	12.21%	$28.64M	-483.64x	3.06	United States
AOS	SMITH A O CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.12B	$65.94	3.55%	$813.70M	17.04x	0.69	United States
IEX	IDEX CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$14.09B	$189.55	3.30%	$904.20M	29.57x	0.72	United States
OTIS	OTIS WORLDWIDE CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$29.96B	$77.08	0.98%	$2.23B	21.90x	-2.95	United States
EMR	EMERSON ELECTRIC CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$73.63B	$131.02	6.26%	$4.81B	31.88x	1.07	United States
ITW	ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$75.02B	$260.29	1.60%	$4.66B	24.74x	4.01	United States
PSIX	POWER SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.40B	$60.88	8.50%	$121.52M	12.30x	1.38	United States
GGG	GRACO INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$14.00B	$84.65	2.06%	$751.53M	26.96x	0.23	United States
AMSC	AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.61B	$33.85	5.09%	$26.44M	11.32x	0.34	United States
XMTR	XOMETRY INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$2.12B	$40.84	9.17%	-$32.86M	-33.48x	1.55	United States
MIDD	MIDDLEBY CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$6.26B	$132.58	4.24%	$36.41M	-24.64x	1.28	United States
OFLX	OMEGA FLEX INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$313.33M	$31.04	1.04%	$19.53M	21.12x	0.25	United States
CXT	CRANE NXT CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$2.33B	$40.59	2.53%	$347.90M	16.04x	1.48	United States
GNRC	GENERAC HOLDINGS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$11.46B	$195.33	5.30%	$462.79M	71.55x	1.12	United States
SXI	STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.09B	$254.86	1.94%	$144.87M	56.64x	1.22	United States
GHM	GRAHAM CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$873.86M	$78.92	4.59%	$24.61M	58.03x	1.23	United States
TNC	TENNANT CO	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.19B	$66.40	3.22%	$125.60M	27.90x	1.11	United States
BLDP	BALLARD POWER SYSTEMS INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$727.90M	$2.42	5.22%	-$84.83M	-8.07x	0.16	Canada
GTLS	CHART INDUSTRIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.90B	$206.75	-0.02%	$619.40M	689.17x	1.99	United States
MIR	MIRION TECHNOLOGIES INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.66B	$18.59	7.33%	$211.90M	143.00x	0.90	United States
KRNT	KORNIT DIGITAL LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$678.62M	$14.66	1.95%	-$22.68M	-48.87x	0.08	Israel
CSW	CSW INDUSTRIALS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.29B	$260.58	0.42%	$230.67M	34.47x	1.12	United States
HURC	HURCO COMPANIES INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$94.83M	$14.71	-0.47%	-$10.31M	-6.66x	0.34	United States
BWEN	BROADWIND INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$48.49M	$2.08	5.58%	$15.03M	9.04x	0.76	United States
VHUB	VENHUB GLOBAL INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$52.37M	$0.62	-0.48%	-$61.73M	-0.37x	-1.35	United States
CVV	CVD EQUIPMENT CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$28.72M	$4.14	-9.21%	-$886.00k	-18.00x	0.11	United States
SHMD	SCHMID GROUP NV	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$227.77M	$5.30	-3.28%	N/A	N/A	-3.01	Germany
NPWR	NET POWER INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$350.09M	$1.56	4.70%	-$1.62B	-0.21x	0.32	United States
NNE	NANO NUCLEAR ENERGY INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.07B	$20.48	7.79%	-$42.59M	-18.96x	0.01	United States
SMR	NUSCALE POWER CORP	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$3.66B	$10.84	5.76%	-$354.27M	-5.00x	0.26	United States
SERV	SERVE ROBOTICS INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$638.83M	$8.44	9.18%	-$96.80M	-5.18x	0.05	United States
RR	RICHTECH ROBOTICS INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$467.32M	$2.09	11.17%	-$18.36M	-14.93x	0.03	United States
LASE	LASER PHOTONICS CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$22.33M	$1.00	10.01%	-$6.35M	-2.27x	3.26	United States
BURU	NUBURU INC	NYSEMKT	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$15.38M	$0.18	12.74%	-$51.05M	0.01x	-1.24	United States
GTEC	GREENLAND TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING CORP	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$13.30M	$0.70	5.43%	$11.22M	2.25x	0.68	China
WFF	WF HOLDING LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$7.08M	$0.28	-9.35%	-$159.24k	-18.73x	0.79	Malaysia
CETY	CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$4.98M	$0.96	-11.11%	-$1.67M	-0.79x	1.09	United States
JCSE	JE CLEANTECH HOLDINGS LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$9.45M	$1.78	3.49%	$152.31k	-8.56x	1.08	Singapore
THR	THERMON GROUP HOLDINGS INC	NYSE	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$1.66B	$50.40	2.88%	$107.78M	28.31x	0.52	United States
MKDW	MKDWELL TECH INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$29.59M	$6.18	-2.68%	N/A	-1.37x	1.99	Taiwan
ZJK	ZJK INDUSTRIAL CO LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$118.15M	$1.87	-6.97%	$7.78M	26.71x	0.72	China
LBGJ	LI BANG INTERNATIONAL CORP INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$193.10k	$1.03	-3.74%	-$209.60k	-0.17x	2.54	China
HUHU	HUHUTECH INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$198.13M	$8.55	13.85%	-$10.92M	-16.44x	2.23	China
XCH	XCHG LTD	NASDAQ	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$65.99M	$1.11	-3.31%	N/A	13.88x	0.89	China
GCDT	GREEN CIRCLE DECARBONIZE TECHNOLOGY LTD	NYSEMKT	Specialty Industrial Machinery	$12.63M	$1.01	4.88%	$93.20k	-9.71x	-2.16	Hong Kong

Specialty Industrial Machinery Stocks FAQ

What are the best specialty industrial machinery stocks to buy right now in Apr 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. Taylor Devices (NASDAQ:TAYD)

Taylor Devices (NASDAQ:TAYD) is the #1 top specialty industrial machinery stock out of 79 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +32.52% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Taylor Devices (NASDAQ:TAYD) is: Value: B, Growth: B, Momentum: B, Sentiment: B, Safety: C, Financials: B, and AI: C.

Taylor Devices (NASDAQ:TAYD) has a Due Diligence Score of 47, which is 13 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 34.

TAYD passed 15 out of 33 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Taylor Devices has seen its stock return 76.63% over the past year, overperforming other specialty industrial machinery stocks by 52 percentage points.

Taylor Devices has an average 1 year price target of $70.00, an upside of 22.81% from Taylor Devices's current stock price of $57.00.

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

2. Helios Technologies (NYSE:HLIO)

Helios Technologies (NYSE:HLIO) is the #2 top specialty industrial machinery stock out of 79 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +32.52% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Helios Technologies (NYSE:HLIO) is: Value: C, Growth: A, Momentum: B, Sentiment: B, Safety: B, Financials: C, and AI: C.

Helios Technologies (NYSE:HLIO) has a Due Diligence Score of 27, which is -7 points lower than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 34. Although this number is below the industry average, our proven quant model rates HLIO as a "A".

HLIO passed 10 out of 38 due diligence checks and has average fundamentals. Helios Technologies has seen its stock return 101.65% over the past year, overperforming other specialty industrial machinery stocks by 77 percentage points.

Helios Technologies has an average 1 year price target of $79.33, an upside of 22.6% from Helios Technologies's current stock price of $64.71.

Helios Technologies stock has a consensus Strong Buy recommendation according to Wall Street analysts. Of the 3 analysts covering Helios Technologies, 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. Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES)

Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES) is the #3 top specialty industrial machinery stock out of 79 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +32.52% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES) is: Value: A, Growth: C, Momentum: C, Sentiment: B, Safety: A, Financials: B, and AI: B.

Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES) has a Due Diligence Score of 43, which is 9 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 34.

GTES passed 14 out of 33 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Gates Industrial has seen its stock return 22.81% over the past year, underperforming other specialty industrial machinery stocks by -2 percentage points.

Gates Industrial has an average 1 year price target of $28.88, an upside of 27.71% from Gates Industrial's current stock price of $22.61.

Gates Industrial stock has a consensus Buy recommendation according to Wall Street analysts. Of the 8 analysts covering Gates Industrial, 50% have issued a Strong Buy rating, 12.5% have issued a Buy, 37.5% 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 38 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. Je Cleantech Holdings (NASDAQ:JCSE)

Je Cleantech Holdings (NASDAQ:JCSE) has an annual dividend yield of 24.72%, which is 23 percentage points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 1.89%.

Je Cleantech Holdings's dividend payout ratio of -43.3% indicates that its high dividend yield might not be sustainable for the long-term.

2. Omega Flex (NASDAQ:OFLX)

Omega Flex (NASDAQ:OFLX) has an annual dividend yield of 4.38%, which is 2 percentage points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 1.89%. 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 92.5% indicates that its high dividend yield might not be sustainable for the long-term.

3. Luxfer Holdings (NYSE:LXFR)

Luxfer Holdings (NYSE:LXFR) has an annual dividend yield of 4.27%, which is 2 percentage points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 1.89%. 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 179.3% indicates that its high dividend yield might not be sustainable for the long-term.

Why are specialty industrial machinery stocks up?

Specialty industrial machinery stocks were up 3.41% in the last day, and down -2.65% over the last week. Nuburu was the among the top gainers in the specialty industrial machinery industry, gaining 12.74% yesterday.

Nuburu shares are trading higher after the company's subsidiary, Lyocon, secured an initial deployment order valued at ~$250,000 for a portable directed-energy laser dazzler system for C-UAV defense applications.

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. Crane Nxt Co (NYSE:CXT)

Crane Nxt Co (NYSE:CXT) 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.

Crane Nxt Co has a valuation score of 71, which is 48 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 23. It passed 5 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Crane Nxt Co's stock has dropped -21.03% in the past year. It has underperformed other stocks in the specialty industrial machinery industry by -46 percentage points.

2. Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES)

Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES) 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.

Gates Industrial has a valuation score of 43, which is 20 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 23. It passed 3 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Gates Industrial's stock has gained 22.81% in the past year. It has underperformed other stocks in the specialty industrial machinery industry by -2 percentage points.

3. Park Ohio Holdings (NASDAQ:PKOH)

Park Ohio Holdings (NASDAQ:PKOH) is the third most undervalued specialty industrial machinery stock based on its Valuation Rating of B. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

Park Ohio Holdings has a valuation score of 71, which is 48 points higher than the specialty industrial machinery industry average of 23. It passed 5 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Park Ohio Holdings's stock has gained 11.3% in the past year. It has underperformed other stocks in the specialty industrial machinery industry by -13 percentage points.

Are specialty industrial machinery stocks a good buy now?

45.61% of specialty industrial machinery stocks rated by analysts are a buy right now. On average, analysts expect specialty industrial machinery stocks to rise by 19.49% over the next year.

8.96% of specialty industrial machinery stocks have a Zen Rating of A (Strong Buy), 31.34% of specialty industrial machinery stocks are rated B (Buy), 44.78% are rated C (Hold), 7.46% are rated D (Sell), and 7.46% 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 20.86x.

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