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A company that generates cash isn’t automatically a winner. Some businesses stockpile cash but fail to reinvest wisely, limiting their ability to expand.

Four industrial names with decades of uninterrupted dividend growth sit largely ignored while yield-seekers chase REITs and telecoms, and their free cash flow coverage ratios tell a story the crowd keeps missing.

Mid-cap stocks have the best odds of scaling into $100 billion corporations thanks to their tested business models and large addressable markets. But the many opportunities in front of them attract significant competition, spanning from industry behemoths with seemingly infinite resources to small, nimble players with chips on their shoulders.

Ahead of its third-quarter earnings release, analysts forecast Nordson's bottom line to grow by double digits from the year-ago quarter.

Nordson stock has delivered a solid 37.6% return over the past five years, yet current valuation checks suggest the shares are trading at a premium, with both an intrinsic value estimate based on a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach and market multiples pointing to the stock as overvalued. Nordson's 37.6% five year return highlights that long term holders have been rewarded, which raises the bar for any new upside from today’s price. Expectations around the company’s ability to keep...

After a large run, the next leg up may depend on a simple, powerful force that’s already in motion.

Here is how Nordson (NDSN) and Tennant (TNC) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.

Management lifted its profit outlook, and investors have more than quadrupled that bet. The question now is what they're really paying for.

Wall Street’s bearish price targets for the stocks in this article signal serious concerns. Such forecasts are uncommon in an industry where maintaining cordial corporate relationships often trumps delivering the hard truth.

Wrapping up Q1 earnings, we look at the numbers and key takeaways for the professional tools and equipment stocks, including Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and its peers.