AMETEK, Inc. (AME) earnings on August 4, 2026
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
AMETEK's quarterly results beat expectations and the company raised its full-year profit forecast, lifting the stock 4% by the close.
AME price around the earnings
254.05
Change: +4.2%
2026-08-04, 20:00 UTC
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- End of the measured window
- Market open
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Optimistic outlook, the scenario is optimistic.
Analysts see a strong track record of beating earnings and a price target about 8% above the current price, which points to optimism. The main driver is the technical setup, showing steady upward trend strength, even though crowd sentiment is slightly cautious.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Optimistic outlook, the scenario is optimistic.
- Playbook
- The stock has been rising steadily over the past month, with relative strength against the broader market. Recent days show a sharp increase in analyst expectations, suggesting the market is pricing in a positive earnings report.
- Trend
- Expectations accelerating sharply over the week
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Positive
Analysts rate the stock as a buy, with a price target of $263, implying about 8% upside. One major bank kept its equal-weight rating with a $245 target.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.7
- Analysts covering the stock
- 18
- Average price target
- 263.39
- Lowest price target
- 217
- Highest price target
- 303
- Upside to price target
- 8%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 13.5%
- Revenue growth
- 11.3%
- Forward EPS
- 8.81
- Trailing EPS
- 6.62
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 3
- Strong buy: 2
- Buy: 12
- Hold: 6
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 2
- Buy
- 12
- Hold
- 6
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 10, 2026 · Morgan Stanley: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- July 2, 2026 · Truist Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- June 15, 2026 · Citigroup: Initiates coverage (Neutral)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (1)
- Morgan Stanley Maintains Equal-Weight on AMETEK, Raises Price Target to $245 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Positive
The stock shows steady upward trend strength over the past two weeks and a month, and it is performing better than the broader market.
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 243.76
- Average true range (ATR)
- 1.9%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -0.6%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +3.5%
- 30-day change (32d)
- +4.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- +2.2%
- SPY change (32d)
- +1.7%
- Nearest support
- 243.2
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.2%
- Nearest resistance
- 244.83
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.4%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 1.21
- Mid: 243.2 (0.2% away, 0.12 ATR, 11 touches)
- Mid: 241.6 (0.9% away, 0.47 ATR, 11 touches)
- Mid: 240.33 (1.4% away, 0.74 ATR, 20 touches)
- Mid: 244.83 (0.4% away, 0.23 ATR, 11 touches)
- Mid: 250.73 (2.9% away, 1.49 ATR, 4 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +5.0%
- April 30, 2026: actual EPS 1.97 vs estimate 1.9 (surprise +3.6%)
- February 3, 2026: actual EPS 2.01 vs estimate 1.94 (surprise +3.4%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 1.89 vs estimate 1.76 (surprise +7.4%)
- July 31, 2025: actual EPS 1.78 vs estimate 1.69 (surprise +5.5%)
Expected move
Drivers
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Past earnings
Positive
The company has beaten earnings expectations in every quarter for the past year, with an average surprise of 5% above what analysts expected.
- Implied move
- +2.0%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 1.9%
- 75th percentile move
- 4.5%
- 90th percentile move
- 7.8%
- Up / down moves
- 12 / 8
- Average up move
- +3.2%
- Average down move
- -2.6%
Monitoring and close
What AMETEK, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 2.09 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 1.99 |
| EPS surprise | +5.0% |
| Revenue | $2,044 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,954 million |
| Revenue surprise | +4.6% |
AMETEK reported record Q2 2026 results, beating expectations and raising annual guidance. The Q2 earnings call transcript is now available.
Sources (12)
- How Investors May Respond To AMETEK (AME) Lifting 2026 Guidance After Record Q2 Results (opens in a new tab) — Simply Wall St.
- AMETEK, Inc. (AME) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- Ametek (AME) Q2 Earnings: Taking a Look at Key Metrics Versus Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Ametek (AME) Tops Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- AMETEK Raises FY2026 GAAP EPS Guidance from $7.03-$7.23 to $7.19-$7.29 vs $7.28 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- AMETEK’s (NYSE:AME) Q2 CY2026: Strong Sales (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- AMETEK Sees Q3 Adj EPS $2.08-$2.10 vs $2.05 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- AMETEK Sees Q3 GAAP EPS $1.85-$1.87 vs $1.84 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- AMETEK Raises FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance from $7.94-$8.14 to $8.20-$8.30 vs $8.15 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- AMETEK beat expectations in Q2: adjusted earnings of $2.09 per share and sales of $2.044 billion, both above estimates. — Benzinga
- AMETEK Q2 Adj. EPS $2.09 Beats $1.99 Estimate, Sales $2.044B Beat $1.954B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- AMETEK Announces Record Second Quarter 2026 Results and Raises Full Year Guidance (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating +5.4% pre-market, a move 3x the stock's usual reaction (about 2%). The figures confirm the optimistic scenario. In the 1,275 similar cases in our market history, the close held that direction 86% of the time.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +4.2%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 6%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%