Stock · G1A.DE · Industrials
Germany · Large Cap · Revenue 12 mo. €5.6B
Price as of 11/06/2026
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft produces and supplies systems and components to the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries worldwide.
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft produces and supplies systems and components to the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries worldwide. The company operates through Separation & Flow Technologies; Liquid & Power Technologies; Food & Health Technologies; Farm Technologies; and Heating & Refrigeration Technologies segments. It manufactures process-related components and machinery, notably separators, decanters, homogenizers, valves, and pumps; and process solutions, including brewing systems, liquid processing and filling, concentration, fermentation, crystallization, purification, drying, powder handling, and packaging, as well as systems for carbon capture and emission control for dairy, new-food, beverage, food, chemical, and other industries. The company also prepares, marinates, and processes meat, poultry, seafood, vegan products, and snack and pasta, as well as slicing, packaging lines, freeze drying, granulators, and tablet presses for pharmaceutical industry. In addition, it offers customer solutions for milk production and livestock farming comprising automatic milking and feeding system, conventional milking solutions, manure handling, and digital herd management tools; and energy solutions in the field of industrial refrigeration and heating for various industries, including food, beverage, dairy, oil and gas, supporting automation, digital, and service platform. The company was formerly known as mg technologies ag and changed its name to GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft in 2005. GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Summary
66.4 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €472.9M (2025), it supports €5.3B. The remaining €5.9B of the market value assume it grows 10.5% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
10.5%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 15.6×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 11.8× to 13.8×, median 12.7×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
5 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 16.88% | 13.10% | Rank 63 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 55.51% | 19.33% | Rank 84 |
| EBIT margin | 11.64% | 11.28% | Rank 52 |
| FCF margin | 8.61% | 8.50% | Rank 51 |
| Gross margin | 37.27% | 28.98% | Rank 70 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 1.35% | 5.15% | Rank 30 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 3.61% | 8.01% | Rank 39 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 36.45% | 12.89% | Rank 89 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 4.65% | 4.02% | Rank 55 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.66% | 4.42% | Rank 37 |
| FCF yield | 4.24% | 3.98% | Rank 54 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 1.96 | 2.08 | Rank 54 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 16.85 | 19.47 | Rank 60 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 5.98% | −0.01% | Rank 61 |
| Share price, 6 months | 17.53% | −1.43% | Rank 87 |
| Share price, 3 months | 13.83% | 0.53% | Rank 88 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −0.86% | −16.36% | Rank 97 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −1.33% | 1.39% | Rank 76 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.67% | −0.44% | Rank 81 |
| Dividend streak in years | 15 | 5 | Rank 86 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −1.43% | 0.27% | Rank 29 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 40.29% | 39.65% | Rank 51 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −0.47 | 1.38 | Rank 85 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.10 | 0.61 | Rank 91 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 22.24% | 32.95% | Rank 89 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, €B | EBIT margin | FCF, €M | Shares | Net debt, €M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4.5 | 9.2% | 71.4 | 192M | −771.5 |
| 2017 | 4.6 | 8.8% | 143.5 | 186M | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 4.8 | 5.4% | 130.6 | 181M | 79.0 |
| 2019 | 4.9 | −1.8% | 341.0 | 180M | 154.1 |
| 2020 | 4.6 | 6.2% | 617.6 | 180M | −245.2 |
| 2021 | 4.7 | 8.1% | 552.1 | 180M | −499.7 |
| 2022 | 5.2 | 9.0% | 265.5 | 176M | −330.0 |
| 2023 | 5.4 | 9.4% | 305.2 | 172M | −367.2 |
| 2024 | 5.4 | 10.9% | 473.0 | 168M | −326.1 |
| 2025 | 5.5 | 11.6% | 472.9 | 163M | −378.9 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
GEA GROUP mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
GEA GROUP is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
7 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for GEA GROUP.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 27.3 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 4.6 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 16.9% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 40.3% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.10 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| G1A.DE | GEA GROUPthis page | |
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| KRN.DE | Krones AG | locked |
| RRX | Regal Beloit Corporation | locked |
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