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Kennametal supplies tools that manufacturers use to cut and shape metal into parts for vehicles, aircraft and industrial equipment. Metal Cutting generates most of its sales, with products sold under the Kennametal and WIDIA brands. Customers buy standard or custom tooling, supported by engineers who help select and apply it; the company sells directly and through distributors and other channels.
Its other business, Infrastructure, sells tools for mining, drilling and road milling, along with wear-resistant components and metallurgical powders. These products use materials such as tungsten carbide and ceramics to withstand demanding industrial conditions. Buyers include mining and construction operators, energy businesses and manufacturers. No single customer supplies a large share of company sales.
The business depends on access to tungsten as well as customers’ manufacturing and earthworks activity. Global tungsten mining and processing capacity is concentrated in China, and export controls have increased uncertainty about supply and cost. Kennametal uses long-term supply agreements, spot purchases and its own tungsten recycling to secure materials, but it may not be able to pass higher material costs on to customers.
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Kennametal’s results hinge on machining activity and cutting-tool competition, making Sandvik an important direct rival to watch even though it is absent from this list.
MSC Industrial Direct distributes Kennametal’s cutting tools to metalworking customers, so those customers’ machining activity drives both MSC’s tool sales and Kennametal’s tooling demand.
Timken’s bearing and motion-product sales reflect activity in machinery, transportation, aerospace and mining markets that also buy Kennametal’s cutting and wear tools. Watch demand from those customer groups for a read on the markets supporting Kennametal’s sales.
Manufacturers’ metalworking activity supports both Lincoln Electric’s sales of welding equipment and consumables and Kennametal’s sales of tools for machining metal parts. Lincoln Electric’s welding sales offer another view of those manufacturers’ production spending.
ESAB Corporation’s welding and fabrication consumables depend on metalworking customers’ production activity, as do Kennametal’s machining tools. Watch ESAB’s consumables sales for another indication of how active those customers are.
Parker-Hannifin sells motion-control products and aerospace systems to equipment makers in many of the same markets that buy Kennametal’s cutting tools. Its sales of airframe and engine components to manufacturers are worth watching alongside Kennametal’s demand from aerospace customers.
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. earningsMSM
MSC Industrial Direct’s report will show whether metalworking customers are buying cutting tools actively, including Kennametal tools sold through MSC.
Look at MSC’s tool sales and its account of metalworking-customer demand. Stronger sales would show customers buying more tools, supporting demand for Kennametal products moving through MSC’s channel; weaker sales would point to reduced customer purchases and more pressure on Kennametal’s Metal Cutting business.
Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc earningsLECO
Lincoln Electric’s report will show whether manufacturers are buying welding equipment and consumables, another read on demand for Kennametal machining tools.
Read Lincoln Electric’s welding sales and orders as a signal of manufacturers’ activity. Stronger sales and orders would indicate more active production spending, supporting Kennametal’s tools sold to many of the same customers; weaker figures would point to slowing activity and a softer demand backdrop for Kennametal.
Kennametal Inc. earningsThis company
Kennametal’s report will show whether sales of metal-cutting tools and Infrastructure wear products can support the business together, rather than growth relying on higher prices alone.
Read Metal Cutting and Infrastructure sales together, then separate growth from volume versus price. Growth in both segments with support from volume would show that machining customers and buyers of wear products are purchasing across the business. If growth comes mainly from higher prices, or one segment declines, demand remains narrow and the report must show whether Kennametal can pass through tungsten and other input costs.
ESAB Corporation earningsESAB
ESAB Corporation’s report will show whether metalworking customers keep buying welding consumables, offering a read on demand for Kennametal tools and wear products.
Look at ESAB’s welding-consumables sales, not as a substitute for Kennametal’s own results but as a signal from shared metalworking customers. Stronger sales would suggest customers are producing and replenishing supplies, supporting demand for Kennametal tools and wear products; weaker sales would point to cooler production and purchasing, a less supportive backdrop for Kennametal.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Kennametal sells cutting tools and wear-resistant components to factories, transportation and energy businesses, and earthworks customers, so U.S. production activity indicates whether customers may use equipment more and buy more of its products.
Stronger factory, mine and utility output points to greater use of industrial equipment and may support orders for Kennametal’s cutting tools and wear-resistant parts; weaker output points to less customer activity and may weigh on those orders.
