Transcat, Inc. (TRNS)Industrials | Specialty Business Services | Rochester, United States | NasdaqGM
86.94 USD
+0.92
(1.070%)
⇧
(Oct. 13, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 86.94 |
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 7:30 a.m. EDT
The investment case for Transcat is currently paralyzed by a stark disconnect between its operational reality and its financial reporting. On one hand, the company boasts a robust balance sheet with a current ratio of 2.49, healthy free cash flow, and a forward P/E that suggests analysts expect a massive earnings turnaround. The business appears to be a mission-critical player with a strong moat. However, the market is punishing the stock heavily based on the trailing twelve-month results, which show a catastrophic -60% earnings drop and a trailing P/E of nearly 240. This valuation gap creates a dangerous ambiguity: is the stock a deep value play waiting for a restatement, or a value trap where the business has fundamentally deteriorated? The price action confirms this confusion, trading sideways near the 50-week moving average despite a recent 43% annual decline. With no dividend to provide income and a statistical forecast leaning slightly negative, the safest approach is to wait for clarity on whether the earnings collapse was a one-time anomaly or a structural break before committing capital. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoETS ✓ | 0.040298 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.040535 |
| MSTL | 0.044679 |
| AutoTheta | 0.049755 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoETS
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 46% |
| H-stat | 0.40 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.385 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.85 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Industrials |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 47.293 |
| Revenue per Share | 37.29 |
| Market Cap | 813,741,888 |
| Trailing P/E | 241.50 |
| Forward P/E | 40.11 |
| Beta | 0.66 |
| Profit Margins | 0.99% |
| Website | https://www.transcat.com |
As of Oct. 10, 2026, 7:30 a.m. EDT: Speculator positioning is extremely thin and fragmented. Call open interest is concentrated at distant strikes (100 and 115), suggesting speculative bets on a significant upside move rather than a steady grind. Put activity is negligible, with the only notable open interest sitting deep out-of-the-money at 35, indicating a lack of organized hedging or bearish conviction. Implied volatility is low across most expirations, reflecting a market that sees limited immediate risk but is pricing in binary outcomes at specific price levels.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.20679009 |
| Address1 | 35 Vantage Point Drive |
| All Time High | 147.12 |
| All Time Low | 0.125 |
| Ask | 94.32 |
| Ask Size | 1 |
| Audit Risk | 8 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 126,330 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 121,263 |
| Average Volume | 121,263 |
| Average Volume10Days | 126,330 |
| Beta | 0.661 |
| Bid | 93.11 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 2 |
| Book Value | 32.364 |
| City | Rochester |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,798,675,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 6 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 86.94 |
| Current Ratio | 2.492 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,790,726,400 |
| Day High | 87.31 |
| Day Low | 81.92 |
| Debt To Equity | 47.293 |
| Display Name | Transcat |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,785,875,400 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,785,875,400 |
| Earnings Growth | -0.6 |
| Earnings Quarterly Growth | -0.592 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,785,873,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,649,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,649,600 |
| Ebitda | 42,956,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.1233 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 22.122 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 2.728 |
| Enterprise Value | 950,282,112 |
| Eps Current Year | 1.895 |
| Eps Forward | 2.1675 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 0.36 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NGM |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 15 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 800 395 0543 |
| Fifty Day Average | 88.6042 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -1.6641998 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.018782403 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 20.679008 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 100.0 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -13.059998 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.13059998 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 50.23 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 36.710003 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.7308382 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 50.23 - 100.0 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 250,180,200,000 |
| Float Shares | 9,127,128 |
| Forward Eps | 2.1675 |
| Forward P E | 40.11073 |
| Free Cashflow | 27,981,624 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGM |
| Full Time Employees | 1,413 |
| Fullday Change | 0.9200058 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 1.0695255 |
| Fullday Price | 86.94 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,790,812,800 |
| Gross Margins | 0.32496 |
| Gross Profits | 113,217,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.024489999 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 1.05609 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 9,359,810 |
| Industry | Specialty Business Services |
| Industry Disp | Specialty Business Services |
| Industry Key | specialty-business-services |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,774,656,000 |
| Last Split Date | 869,616,000 |
| Last Split Factor | 2:1 |
| Long Business Summary | Transcat, Inc. provides calibration and laboratory instrument services in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company operates through two segments: Service and Distribution. The Service segment offers calibration, repair, inspection, analytical qualification, preventative maintenance, consulting, and other related services. This segment also provides CalTrak, a proprietary document and asset management system that is used to manage the workflow of its calibration service centers and customers' assets; and Compliance, Control, and Cost, an online customer portal that provides its customers with web-based asset management capability, as well as a safe and secure off-site archive of calibration and other service records. The Distribution segment sells and rents test, measurement, and control instruments for customers' test and measurement instrumentation needs, as well as value-added services, such as calibration/certification of equipment purchase, equipment rental, used equipment for sale, and equipment kitting. This segment markets and sells its products through website, digital and print advertising, proactive outbound sales, and an inbound call center. The company provides services and products to highly regulated industries, principally life science, which includes companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and other FDA-regulated industries; and additional industries, including aerospace and defense, industrial manufacturing, energy and utilities, oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, and other industries that require accuracy in processes and confirmation of the capabilities of their equipment. It also provides calibration, repair, preventive maintenance, electrical safety inspection, and documentation and regulatory compliance services to hospital networks and healthcare facilities in the southeastern United States. Transcat, Inc. was incorporated in 1964 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York. |
| Long Name | Transcat, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 813,741,888 |
| Market State | PREPRE |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_309251 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,518,400 |
| Net Income To Common | 3,446,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,806,192,000 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 834,661,324 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 3 |
| Open | 86.45 |
| Operating Cashflow | 40,044,000 |
| Operating Margins | 0.05469 |
| Overall Risk | 5 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 585 352 7777 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 86.94 |
| Post Market Time | 1,791,921,677 |
| Previous Close | 86.02 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 45.87863 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 2.6863184 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 2.3356674 |
| Profit Margins | 0.00989 |
| Quick Ratio | 1.931 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.920006 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 1.06953 |
| Regular Market Day High | 87.31 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 81.92 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 81.92 - 87.31 |
| Regular Market Open | 86.45 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 86.02 |
| Regular Market Price | 86.94 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,791,921,600 |
| Regular Market Volume | 181,183 |
| Return On Assets | 0.02179 |
| Return On Equity | 0.011569999 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.216 |
| Revenue Per Share | 37.29 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.17502642 |
| Sector | Industrials |
| Sector Disp | Industrials |
| Sector Key | industrials |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 7 |
| Shares Outstanding | 9,359,810 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.050100002 |
| Shares Short | 469,146 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,788,134,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 490,179 |
| Short Name | Transcat, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.0641 |
| Short Ratio | 4.21 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | NY |
| Symbol | TRNS |
| Target High Price | 113.0 |
| Target Low Price | 95.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 104.33333 |
| Target Median Price | 105.0 |
| Total Cash | 6,709,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.717 |
| Total Debt | 143,248,992 |
| Total Revenue | 348,398,016 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | 0.36 |
| Trailing P E | 241.5 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 80.02315 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 6.916855 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.086435676 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 181,183 |
| Website | https://www.transcat.com |
| Zip | 14,624 |