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WWD WOODWARD INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 980745103 · Sector: Industrials

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
760
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+24
Last quarter 736 → now 760
How unusual is that
Top 20%
Stronger buying than 81% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

760 funds held WWD at the end of 2026Q2, up 24 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 80.8% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $4.2B(YoY +22.4%), the P/E is 34.0x, return on equity is 22.3%. WWD has had 19 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +8.2% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Industrials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=202 2013Q4: holders=202 2014Q1: holders=203 2014Q2: holders=209 2014Q3: holders=227 2014Q4: holders=229 2015Q1: holders=216 2015Q2: holders=225 2015Q3: holders=208 2015Q4: holders=204 2016Q1: holders=226 2016Q2: holders=251 2016Q3: holders=242 2016Q4: holders=280 2017Q1: holders=279 2017Q2: holders=270 2017Q3: holders=255 2017Q4: holders=305 2018Q1: holders=300 2018Q2: holders=291 2018Q3: holders=297 2018Q4: holders=287 2019Q1: holders=325 2019Q2: holders=361 2019Q3: holders=361 2019Q4: holders=360 2020Q1: holders=335 2020Q2: holders=310 2020Q3: holders=307 2020Q4: holders=339 2021Q1: holders=336 2021Q2: holders=338 2021Q3: holders=333 2021Q4: holders=337 2022Q1: holders=328 2022Q2: holders=313 2022Q3: holders=305 2022Q4: holders=314 2023Q1: holders=331 2023Q2: holders=348 2023Q3: holders=375 2023Q4: holders=418 2024Q1: holders=428 2024Q2: holders=469 2024Q3: holders=438 2024Q4: holders=478 2025Q1: holders=480 2025Q2: holders=537 2025Q3: holders=563 2025Q4: holders=644 2026Q1: holders=736 2026Q2: holders=760 -92 -46 +0 +46 +92 181490798 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 19 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 20% — —
2026Q1 Top 5% +19.7% -1.9%
2025Q4 Top 10% -4.0% -8.8%
2025Q3 Top 20% +24.1% +50.7%
2025Q2 Top 5% +3.1% +5.6%
2024Q4 Top 20% +0.5% +12.6%
2024Q2 Top 5% +10.3% +11.2%
2023Q4 Top 20% +12.7% +30.4%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
281
Change in large funds
+27
Total value they hold
$22.9B
Funds buying for the first time
115
Funds that sold out entirely
91
Price change that quarter
+6.0%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
9
Funds holding calls (bullish)
10

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
34.0
EPS (TTM)
$8.99
EPS YoY
+42.3%
Revenue (TTM)
$4.2B
Revenue YoY
+22.4%
Net margin
13.2%
ROE
22.3%
Debt ratio
52.4%
FCF (TTM)
$377M
Dividend (TTM)
$1.20
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-09-30: EPS 0.86 2022-12-31: EPS 0.49 2023-03-31: EPS 0.58 2023-06-30: EPS 1.37 2023-09-30: EPS 1.34 2023-12-31: EPS 1.46 2024-03-31: EPS 1.56 2024-06-30: EPS 1.63 2024-09-30: EPS 1.36 2024-12-31: EPS 1.42 2025-03-31: EPS 1.78 2025-06-30: EPS 1.76 2025-09-30: EPS 2.23 2025-12-31: EPS 2.17 2026-03-31: EPS 2.19 2026-06-30: EPS 2.40 0B 0.6B 1.1B $B 0.00 1.32 2.64 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 35 23 37 50 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-31M75M181M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $38M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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