Lincoln Electric PE ratio LECO

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 25.6×
10-year median: 24.7×
Against its 10-year history: 58th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 13.8× to 37.1×
Peer median: 32.1×

Lincoln Electric's PE ratio is 25.6× as of Oct 23, 2026: a share price of $255.96 against $10.01 of earnings per share over the last twelve months.

That is above its ten-year median of 24.7×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 13.8× in Mar 2020 to 37.1× in Apr 2021.

The median for 10 industrial machinery stocks of a similar size is 32.1×.

PE ratio over time

median 24.7×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	25.6×	25.3×	32.0×
2025	26.4×	21.1×	28.1×
2024	22.7×	19.3×	29.3×
2023	25.5×	19.2×	26.0×
2022	19.4×	18.9×	31.5×
2021	31.4×	26.8×	37.1×
2020	34.6×	13.8×	35.9×
2019	19.5×	16.5×	26.1×
2018	22.8×	20.9×	25.4×
2017	22.0×	20.8×	32.3×
2016	27.6×	23.2×	62.3×
2015	26.3×	15.9×	30.9×
2014	21.4×	18.0×	23.0×
2013	22.2×	16.6×	22.5×
2012	16.0×	13.4×	17.7×
2011	13.3×	10.9×	16.1×

Against its peers

Companies in Industrial - Machinery nearest Lincoln Electric's size, closest first, today.

Company	PE ratio
LECOLincoln Electric	25.6×
RBCRBC Bearings INC	46.6×
LIILennox International	16.7×
WTSWatts Water Technologies	31.3×
BWXTBWX Technologies	33.0×
IEXIDEX	32.9×
ITTITT	37.3×
NDSNNordson	32.2×
GGGGraco	21.1×
MOG-AMoog	29.0×
CRCrane	32.0×
Peer median	32.1×

Where Lincoln Electric ranks

#26of 61Industrial machinery stocks with the lowest PE ratio

What the PE ratio tells you

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months. It is the price tag on a dollar of profit: 20× means you pay $20 for $1 of yearly earnings.

Blank while earnings are negative. A very low PE can mean the market expects profits to fall, so read it with growth and the company's own history.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.