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Water equipment generates most of Franklin Electric’s revenue. The company makes pumps, motors and controls that draw groundwater, move water and handle wastewater for homes, farms, municipalities and industry. It sells to specialist distributors and equipment manufacturers. Through its U.S. Headwater Companies distribution business, it also sells groundwater equipment directly to water-well contractors and helps them select equipment before installation.
Its smaller Energy Systems business supplies equipment that moves fuel from storage tanks to gas-station dispensers and monitors and contains it. Buyers include petroleum equipment distributors and major oil companies. This business also serves power and data-center infrastructure markets.
Water-equipment demand depends partly on homebuilding and the use of private wells. Agricultural demand varies with seasons, weather and commodity prices. Restrictions on private wells or a shift to municipal water supplies can reduce demand. No single customer accounts for a large share of company sales.
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Franklin Electric’s results depend chiefly on demand for water pumps and groundwater equipment, with Xylem and privately held Grundfos also worth watching as principal water-products rivals.
Pentair competes with Franklin Electric for residential, commercial and industrial spending on water-supply, irrigation, wastewater pumping and water-treatment equipment. Watch its residential and irrigation pump business in Water Solutions from 2026, rather than its former home in Flow.
The Gorman-Rupp Company competes with Franklin Electric to supply pumps and pumping systems for water transfer, wastewater and agriculture.
Vontier Corporation’s Gilbarco Veeder-Root competes with Franklin Electric for spending on equipment that pumps and monitors fuel at petroleum stations. Its Environmental & Fueling Solutions business is the relevant comparison for Franklin Electric’s fuel equipment, not Vontier’s convenience-store payment software.
Dover competes with Franklin Electric to supply petroleum fueling equipment through its Clean Energy & Fueling businesses. Those businesses are the part to watch for competition facing Franklin Electric’s fuel-pumping, containment and monitoring equipment, rather than Dover’s diversified total sales.
A. O. Smith competes with Franklin Electric in U.S. water-treatment equipment, but its business is dominated by water heaters for homes and commercial buildings. Its U.S. water-treatment business is therefore the closer comparison, not overall water-heater sales.
Watts Water Technologies and Franklin Electric both serve spending on installing, replacing and upgrading residential and commercial water systems: Watts supplies water-control and protection equipment, while Franklin supplies pumps, controls and treatment equipment. Watch Watts’ residential and commercial flow-control and protection sales, sold largely through wholesale distributors, for a view of that building-water market.
Housing Starts (Sep)
Franklin Electric’s residential water-well systems depend on homebuilding: more new homes can mean more demand for its pumps and related equipment, supporting sales, while less building can weaken them.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. If the reading shows more building than expected, stronger demand for Franklin Electric’s residential well pumps and related equipment could support sales; homebuilding is only one influence on that demand.
If it comes in below expectations
If the reading shows less building than expected, weaker demand for Franklin Electric’s residential well pumps and related equipment could weigh on sales; homebuilding is only one influence on that demand.
Dover Corporation earningsDOV
Dover’s Clean Energy & Fueling businesses will show how demand for petroleum-station equipment is developing in a market where it competes with Franklin Electric.
Focus on the relevant Clean Energy & Fueling businesses, not Dover’s total sales. Stronger sales would point to support for station-equipment demand, but also a more active competitor for Franklin Electric’s fuel pumps, containment and monitoring equipment. Weaker sales could mean less competitive pressure or a softer market, so this report alone cannot distinguish the two.
The Gorman-Rupp Company earningsGRC
The Gorman-Rupp Company’s pump business will show whether demand is strengthening or weakening in the water-pumping markets it shares with Franklin Electric.
Look at The Gorman-Rupp Company’s sales in water transfer, wastewater and agricultural pumps alongside Franklin Electric’s Water Systems and Distribution sales. Strength at Gorman-Rupp would point to support for the shared pump market; weakness would suggest a less favorable demand backdrop for Franklin Electric’s overlapping products, to be checked against its own sales.
Franklin Electric Co Inc earningsThis company
Franklin Electric’s report will show whether peak-season demand for its water pumps and related equipment translated into sales and profit that held up against costs.
Read Water Systems and Distribution sales alongside gross margin. Growth in both businesses with a steady margin would show that demand and pricing covered cost pressure. If sales grow but margin slips, costs are eating into the benefit; if sales weaken, peak-season demand did not translate fully into Franklin Electric’s business.
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. earningsWTS
Watts Water Technologies’ residential and commercial flow-control and protection sales will show how demand is moving in the building-water market it shares with Franklin Electric.
Look at Watts Water Technologies’ residential and commercial flow-control and protection sales. Strength would point to support for water-system installation, replacement and upgrade spending, a helpful demand backdrop for Franklin Electric’s related pumps, controls and treatment equipment. Weakness would suggest less support from this shared market; the companies sell different equipment, so Watts’ results are not a substitute for Franklin Electric’s own sales.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Franklin Electric’s sales of products used in energy and mining depend on those industries’ output, so stronger factory, mine and utility activity can support customer purchases while weaker activity can reduce them.
Stronger factory, mine and utility output points to firmer demand among the energy and mining customers that buy Franklin Electric products; weaker output points to softer potential purchases, though it does not determine the company’s sales by itself.
