Risk Intelligence
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How strong and defensively sound is the company?
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FERG · NYSE
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC
Private betaSector unavailable · Industry unavailable
$222.54
+0.71%
Close on Sep 11, 2026
Insufficient Data
Updated date unavailable
Long-term research evidence only. No price targets, no trading signals, no recommendations.
Investment Report Card
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC
Sector unavailable · Data confidence partial
No Pro Investor Score today
SCORE_PENDING_COMPONENTS
Long-Term Potential
Research Model
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Not Available
Insufficient Data
Does the business have the characteristics needed to create value over many years?
This reading is not available for this company yet.
Fundamental Momentum
Research Model
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Not Available
Insufficient Data
Is the underlying business getting stronger or weaker?
This reading is not available for this company yet.
Ownership Intelligence
Supplemental Intelligence
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Not Available
Insufficient Coverage
What are important owners actually doing?
This reading is not available for this company yet.
Valuation Intelligence
Research Model
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Not Available
Insufficient Valuation Data
Is today's price reasonable?
No valuation reading is published for this company yet.
Capital Returns Intelligence
Research Model
C−
58 / 100
Favorable Capital Returns
How effectively does the company reward shareholders?
Around the middle of the covered universe — and capital returns are researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.
Why it stands out
No strengthening evidence is recorded in today's readings.
What holds it back
- Ownership evidence is incomplete and should not be read as comprehensive.
Long-term view
Long-Term Potential is not available for this company, so no long-term reading is shown.
Ownership view
No disclosed ownership reading is available at the required confidence, so ownership is left blank rather than estimated.
Valuation view
No Valuation Intelligence reading is published for this company: there is not enough usable valuation evidence today. Valuation is never included in the Suggested Investment Score.
Capital returns view
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC reads 58 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Favorable Capital Returns), reflecting a dividend paid for 6 consecutive years and a share count falling about 2.8% a year. Capital Returns Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.
What changed
No meaningful recorded changes in the stored history.
Risk Intelligence is a core model, Long-Term Potential, Fundamental Momentum, Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence are research models, and Ownership Intelligence is supplemental descriptive evidence. Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence each contribute 0% to the Suggested Investment Score. Nothing here is a recommendation.
Compare FERG with other companiesResearch Collections
This company does not currently satisfy any collection rule. That is a stored research result, not a judgement about the business.
Browse collections60-Second Brief
Too few stored readings exist for this company to summarise honestly.
Composite discovery model
Pro Investor Score
Pro Investor Score™
Score Pending — Insufficient Component Coverage
A composite score is only published when every required input is available for this company. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and exclusion from the ranking is not a sell instruction.
COMPOSITE DISCOVERY MODEL — RESEARCH STAGE · Ranking updated September 12, 2026
Researched separately
Valuation Intelligence Not Available · Insufficient Valuation Data
RESEARCH MODEL
Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.
Researched separately
Capital Returns Intelligence 58 · Favorable Capital Returns
RESEARCH MODEL
Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.
Why this company scores the way it does
This company does not currently hold a stored Pro Investor Score, so no contribution breakdown can be shown.
Pro Investor Intelligence™
Reported by insiders, large shareholders and professional funds. Shown beside our research, never blended into it.
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What changed
Research-score history available since September 2026.
Stored research history does not yet cover a full 30 days comparison for this company.
A change is reported as meaningful at 8 score points, 5 rank places, or any change of research classification. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.
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Plain-English definitions, with the formula and the limitations of each measure.
Fifth research lens · outside the score
Valuation Intelligence
Valuation Intelligence
Is today's price reasonable?
Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.
—/ 100
Insufficient Valuation Data
RESEARCH MODEL
Insufficient coverage
Compared with its history
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Not Available
Is this company expensive or inexpensive compared with its own history?
Historical Valuation Coverage Limited — not enough point-in-time history for this company.
Compared with peers
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How expensive is this stock compared with similar companies?
No comparable cohort of at least eight companies with the same usable ratios.
Earnings & cash flow
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How much financial output does an investor receive relative to the price paid?
No positive earnings or cash-flow yield is available, so this lens is not scored.
Growth-adjusted
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Not Available
Does the company's growth help justify the valuation investors are paying?
Growth data for the matching financial line is unavailable.
No Valuation Intelligence reading is published for FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC: there is not enough usable valuation evidence today.
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
Valuation is inherently uncertain. A stock that appears inexpensive can continue falling, and a stock that appears expensive can continue rising. Valuation Intelligence provides context about the price investors are paying — it does not predict short-term market movements, and it never produces a fair value, a price target or a buy or sell range. Model VALUATION_INTELLIGENCE_V1.
Sixth research lens · outside the score
Capital Returns Intelligence
Capital Returns Intelligence
How effectively does the company reward shareholders?
Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.
58/ 100
Favorable Capital Returns
RESEARCH MODEL
Good coverage
Dividend Quality
27
Limited Capital Returns
Dividend reliability
Buyback Effectiveness
76
Strong Capital Returns
Do buybacks actually reduce shares?
Dilution Control
76
Strong Capital Returns
Is your ownership share protected?
Capital Return Sustainability
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Can the cash flow support it?
No usable cash-flow or earnings measure is stored, so coverage cannot be confirmed.
Shareholder Yield
58
Favorable Capital Returns
Cash returned versus company value
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC reads 58 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Favorable Capital Returns), reflecting a dividend paid for 6 consecutive years and a share count falling about 2.8% a year.
How returned cash was used
Dividends $0.00 · net repurchases $768.90M · total returned $768.90M
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
Capital returns history
Stored readings only. History builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.
Only one stored reading exists for this measure so far, so there is nothing to chart yet.
Why higher yield isn't always better
A very high dividend yield may reflect a falling share price or an unsustainable payout. Capital Returns Intelligence emphasizes consistency and sustainability rather than simply rewarding the highest yield.
Why buybacks can be misleading
Announced or gross buyback spending does not always mean shareholders are gaining ownership. Companies can simultaneously issue shares through employee compensation or acquisitions. Suggested Investments therefore considers actual share-count changes alongside repurchase spending.
What these terms mean
- Dividend Yield
- The annual dividend relative to the current share price.
- Payout Ratio
- The share of company earnings used to pay dividends.
- Free Cash Flow Payout
- How much of the company's available cash is being used for dividends.
- Share Repurchases
- When a company buys back its own stock.
- Dilution
- When the number of shares increases, reducing each existing share's percentage ownership of the company.
- Shareholder Yield
- A combined view of dividends and net share repurchases relative to the company's market value.
Capital Returns Intelligence describes how a company returns capital to shareholders. It is not a measure of stock-price performance, it does not predict future returns, and a strong reading is never a recommendation to buy. Dividends and repurchases can be reduced or stopped at any time. Model CAPITAL_RETURNS_INTELLIGENCE_V1, contributing 0% to the Pro Investor Score.
Stored daily snapshots only
Ranking history
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| 30 days ago | Not ranked | No stored score |
| 90 days ago | Not ranked | No stored score |
| First suggested | Not yet suggested | |
| Highest rank | Not ranked | |
In the company’s own words
What this company does
Ferguson is the largest value-added distributor serving the water and air specialized professional in our $340 billion residential and non-residential North American construction market. We help make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful and sustainable by providing expertise and a wide range of products and services from plumbing, heating, ventilation and air conditioning ("HVAC"), appliances, and lighting to pipes, valves and fittings ("PVF"), water and wastewater solutions and more. We sell through a common network of distribution centers, branches, counter service and expert sales associates, showroom consultants and e-commerce channels.
The Company has a long history and maintained businesses throughout Europe, Canada and the United States in the 1900s. In the early 2000s, the Company’s focus shifted to attractive North American markets. As a result, the operating businesses across Europe were disposed of through various transactions. As part of this transition and following a corporate restructuring, Ferguson Enterprises Inc. became the ultimate parent company for the business in August 2024.
Ferguson is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FERG) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: FERG).
The Company’s corporate headquarters and management office are located at 751 Lakefront Commons, Newport News, Virginia 23606 and its telephone number is +1 757-874-7795.
Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed September 26, 2025. Read the filing
Four distinct intelligence areas
The IA view
Risk Intelligence
Production core
56
Fundamentally Qualified
No prior period to compare
Business Quality qualification score from the locked IA Defensive Research Core. Price Risk stays a separate category and is never blended in.
As of Sep 11, 2026
Long-Term Potential
Research model
52
Ordinary Compounder
No prior period to compare
Durable business economics and reinvestment characteristics. Independent external validation is pending.
As of Sep 11, 2026
Fundamental Momentum
Research model
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Not Available
No prior period to compare
Direction and breadth of change in underlying business fundamentals. Not a price-momentum signal.
Elite Investor Activity
Supplemental
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Insufficient Data
No prior period to compare
No tracked manager filings mapped to this company.
Intelligence history
Not enough stored history to chart FERG yet. A company needs at least two published research or ownership periods before a trend can be shown.
Share price
FERG price history
Closing prices adjusted for splits and dividends. Past prices do not indicate future results.
- 6M change
- +1.0%
- 1Y change
- +5.7%
- 3Y change
- +52.9%
- 5Y change
- +71.0%
- Max change
- +112.3%
Last stored close $222.54 · +5.7% over the selected range · 64 sessions shown
Balanced evidence
Why IA likes it
- No positive evidence is available under the current coverage.
Risk and uncertainty
What IA doesn’t like
- Ownership evidence is incomplete and should not be read as comprehensive.
What would change our view
- Business Quality falling below the frozen qualification threshold.
- Price Risk moving to a less favorable category.
- A sustained reversal in the Fundamental Momentum research evidence.
- New material public ownership disclosures.
Public filings · descriptive only
Elite Investor Activity
Reporting holders
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New holders
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Increasing
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Reducing
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Exiting
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Coverage
Insufficient
Insufficient Coverage · Report period unavailable · Public date unavailable
| Manager | Change | Portfolio weight | Rank | Disclosed |
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Insufficient high-confidence manager coverage.
Objective stored changes
What changed
No qualifying changes are recorded for this company in the stored research and filing history.
Ownership timeline
No high-confidence public ownership events are available.
General research only. Not personalized advice. Public filings may be delayed, amended, incomplete, or reflect positions that have changed since the reporting date.