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Most of AMETEK’s revenue comes from its Electronic Instruments Group, which supplies equipment that customers use to analyze materials, measure conditions and monitor processes and equipment. Process and analytical instruments make up most of this group’s sales, serving customers such as pharmaceutical producers, semiconductor manufacturers and research laboratories. The group also sells aircraft sensors and monitoring systems and equipment that measures and manages electrical power.
Its Electromechanical Group supplies parts and systems that move, cool or connect equipment, alongside engineered medical components. Automation and engineered solutions account for most of this group’s sales: customers buy motion-control products for precision equipment, components for surgical and implantable devices, and other specialized parts. It also supplies aircraft cooling systems and earns revenue from aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul.
Neither group depends on a single customer. Demand instead depends partly on customers’ equipment budgets and government funding, with orders influenced by conditions in industrial, energy and aerospace markets. AMETEK also uses cash generated by its businesses primarily to acquire other manufacturers and broaden its product offerings.
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Teledyne competes with AMETEK for sales of electronic test equipment, environmental instruments, aerospace electronics and connectors built for harsh conditions. Its Instrumentation and Aerospace and Defense Electronics results offer a closer comparison for AMETEK than its larger imaging business.
Emerson competes with AMETEK to sell manufacturers the measurement and automation tools that monitor and control production. Watch Emerson’s new measurement technologies for changes in the alternatives available to AMETEK’s process-instrument customers.
Parker-Hannifin competes with AMETEK to supply motion-control products and aircraft components to equipment and aircraft makers, as well as customers buying replacement parts and maintenance. Parker’s aerospace parts and maintenance sales are worth separating from sales for new aircraft when comparing it with AMETEK’s aviation repair and spare-parts business.
Honeywell competes with AMETEK for aerospace customers buying instruments and specialized aircraft systems, and industrial customers buying measurement and automation tools. Its Aerospace Technologies and Industrial Automation businesses are the relevant comparisons, rather than company-wide sales growth.
Ralliant Corporation competes with AMETEK to sell precision test instruments and power supplies to electronics, semiconductor and industrial customers. Its semiconductor test systems and high-power bidirectional power supplies are concrete product lines to watch for competing offerings.
Keysight competes with AMETEK for electronic test and measurement sales to aerospace, defense, semiconductor and industrial engineering customers. Most Keysight revenue comes from tools for research and development, so its results are more useful for reading engineering demand than manufacturing demand.
Bruker directly challenges AMETEK’s Spectro and Edax businesses in instruments that analyze materials using X-rays and optical emission. Watch those products in Bruker’s BSI NANO business rather than treating its life-science instruments as a comparison for AMETEK.
Curtiss-Wright competes with AMETEK to supply aerospace and defense electronics, nuclear measurement equipment and specialized turbomachinery. Its product news for aerospace, defense and commercial nuclear-power customers gives a more focused view of this rivalry than its broader industrial business.
Fortive competes with AMETEK to sell measurement, monitoring and radiation-safety instruments to industrial, power and healthcare customers. Watch its maintenance and condition-monitoring instruments and healthcare radiation monitoring, rather than treating all of its software and healthcare products as competing with AMETEK.
Agilent competes with AMETEK for laboratory and applied-industrial customers buying spectroscopy and other analytical instruments. Its Applied Markets spectroscopy business is the closer comparison; CrossLab consumables can sell regardless of which company’s instruments customers choose.
Thermo Fisher competes with AMETEK to sell analytical instruments to industrial and laboratory customers, as well as nuclear radiation measurement equipment. Its Analytical Instruments business and radiation-measurement product news are more relevant to this rivalry than its pharmaceutical services.
Mettler-Toledo competes with AMETEK to supply analytical and precision instruments for laboratory analysis and manufacturing quality control. Its sales to life-science, food and chemical customers provide a comparison for demand in these shared uses, with laboratory instruments and related services accounting for about 56% of its 2025 net sales.
Regal Rexnord Corporation competes with AMETEK to supply precision motion-control products, motors and related power systems for automation, medical and aerospace equipment. Its Automation & Motion Control business, including miniature servo motors and aerospace components, is the part to compare with AMETEK’s engineered electromechanical products.
Allient Inc. directly competes with AMETEK for equipment makers buying custom precision motors and systems that control motion in industrial, medical and aerospace equipment. Watch its ability to combine motors with controls and gearing into customer-specific systems—the product capability behind this rivalry.
Materion Corporation competes with AMETEK to sell electronic materials and engineered specialty metals for demanding electrical, thermal and structural uses. Its Electronic Materials products and custom metal strip and shapes are the relevant offerings to watch against AMETEK’s specialty metals and electronics packaging.
ESCO Technologies, Inc. and AMETEK both sell radio-frequency test equipment and specialized components for aerospace, defense and utility systems, tying them to aircraft production, defense procurement and utility equipment investment. ESCO’s aerospace and defense sales, including filtration and fluid-control components, offer a concrete comparison for that shared customer demand.
MKS competes with AMETEK to sell instruments and process-control technologies to semiconductor and specialty industrial manufacturers. Its semiconductor metrology and inspection offerings are worth watching for changes in the tools available to customers that also buy AMETEK instruments.
Mirion Technologies, Inc. directly competes with AMETEK’s Ortec business to sell nuclear radiation detection, measurement and scientific-analysis instruments to nuclear facilities, laboratories, industrial and defense customers. Watch its Nuclear & Safety replacement and service business: Mirion says more than 80% of its nuclear-power end-market revenue comes from the installed base.
Illinois Tool Works’ test and measurement businesses overlap with AMETEK in supplying equipment that customers use to assess industrial products and materials.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated earningsTDY
Teledyne’s instrumentation and aerospace and defense electronics results show how demand is moving among customers that also buy AMETEK’s test equipment and aerospace electronics.
Look at sales trends in Teledyne’s Instrumentation and Aerospace and Defense Electronics businesses, not its larger imaging business. Strength in those areas would suggest demand is holding up among customers shared with AMETEK, supporting the market for AMETEK’s corresponding products; weakness would point to a softer market, but would not prove AMETEK lost orders to Teledyne.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. earningsTMO
Thermo Fisher’s Analytical Instruments business shows how industrial and laboratory customers are buying analytical tools that also compete with AMETEK’s instruments.
Read sales in Thermo Fisher’s Analytical Instruments business against the company’s overall sales trend, and leave pharmaceutical services out of the comparison. Growth in analytical instruments would suggest customers are still buying equipment, a supportive signal for AMETEK’s market; if that business weakens while Thermo Fisher overall grows, the growth is coming from elsewhere and may not reflect demand for AMETEK’s instruments.
Mirion Technologies, Inc. earningsMIR
Mirion Technologies’ Nuclear & Safety results show whether nuclear facilities and laboratories are buying radiation-instrument replacements and services that compete with AMETEK’s Ortec business.
Read Mirion Technologies’ Nuclear & Safety sales alongside any disclosure about replacement and service demand from its installed base of nuclear-power equipment. Strength with steady installed-base demand would show that this recurring market is active for AMETEK’s competing Ortec business; weakness or softer replacement and service activity would point to less support, without proving AMETEK’s own results are the same.
Bruker Corporation earningsBRKR
Bruker’s BSI NANO results show demand for X-ray and optical-emission materials-analysis tools that compete directly with AMETEK’s Spectro and Edax products.
Focus on Bruker’s BSI NANO products relevant to materials analysis, not its life-science instruments. Growth there would show customers are still buying these tools, supporting the market for AMETEK’s Spectro and Edax products; weakness would suggest softer demand, but Bruker’s results alone cannot show which company won the orders.
Ametek, Inc. earningsThis company
AMETEK sells instruments and precision electromechanical products against customer orders, and its report will show whether those orders become sales without eroding segment margins.
Read orders and backlog—the orders AMETEK has received but not yet filled—alongside organic sales growth, which excludes acquisitions and currency effects, and segment operating margin. Rising orders and backlog with organic sales catching up and margins holding or improving would show demand converting into sales without squeezing profitability. If orders look strong but organic sales stall, or margins fall, growth is not yet reaching sales or is coming at a higher cost.
Regal Rexnord Corporation earningsRRX
Regal Rexnord’s Automation & Motion Control results show whether equipment makers are buying motion-control products that compete with AMETEK’s electromechanical systems.
Read sales in Regal Rexnord’s Automation & Motion Control business, especially the miniature servo motors and aerospace components that overlap with AMETEK’s products. Growth would show equipment makers are still buying motion-control products, supporting AMETEK’s electromechanical market; weakness would suggest shared customers are buying less, but would not prove AMETEK lost business.
Emerson Electric Co. earningsEMR
Emerson’s measurement and automation results show whether manufacturers are buying production-monitoring tools that compete with AMETEK’s process instruments.
Focus on Emerson’s measurement businesses, especially technologies used to monitor industrial processes, rather than treating all of Emerson’s products as AMETEK competitors. Growth there would show manufacturers are still buying measurement tools, supporting the customer market for AMETEK’s process instruments; weakness would signal softer demand or tougher competition, which this report alone cannot separate.
Parker-Hannifin Corporation earningsPH
Parker-Hannifin’s aerospace aftermarket results show whether aircraft customers are buying parts and maintenance that also support AMETEK’s aviation repair and spare-parts business.
Separate Parker-Hannifin’s aerospace aftermarket parts and maintenance from sales tied to new aircraft. A stronger aftermarket would show that the installed fleet is generating demand for parts and service, a direct support for AMETEK’s aviation repair and spare-parts business; if growth comes mainly from new aircraft while aftermarket activity is weak, AMETEK’s repair market may not share in it.
