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DOUGLAS DYNAMICS, INC

IndustrialsIndustrial Machinery
Ticker PLOWMILWAUKEE, WIFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $12.70Diluted shares 23.6M

Douglas Dynamics, Inc. (NYSE: PLOW) operates as North America's premier manufacturer and upfitter of commercial work truck attachments and equipment. The company maintains its website at www.douglasdynamics.com and serves the snow and ice control, truck-mounted equipment, and vehicle upfitting industries across the… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$656.05M
+15.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $699.10M
11.22%
−4.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 11.27%
$46.90M
−16.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $52.55M
16.66%
−5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 17.54%
Cash & financing
$74.69M
+81.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $62.22M
$63.56M
+90.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $48.91M
0.04
Was 0.00× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.21
23.4M
+0.2% year over year
Last 12 mo 23.6M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What DOUGLAS DYNAMICS, INC does

In the company’s own words

Douglas Dynamics, Inc. (NYSE: PLOW) operates as North America's premier manufacturer and upfitter of commercial work truck attachments and equipment. The company maintains its website at www.douglasdynamics.com and serves the snow and ice control, truck-mounted equipment, and vehicle upfitting industries across the United States and Canada.

The company operates through two primary segments. The Work Truck Attachments segment manufactures and sells snow and ice control equipment under the FISHER, SNOWEX, and WESTERN brands, along with truck-mounted service cranes and dump hoists under the VENCO and VENTURO brands. This segment generated approximately 80 percent of revenue in 2025, with the remaining 20 percent derived from parts and accessories. The Work Truck Solutions segment manufactures municipal snow and ice control products and provides upfitting services for Class 3-8 trucks and commercial work vehicles under the HENDERSON and DEJANA brands, serving both dealer networks and governmental entities.

Douglas Dynamics employs 1,764 people across the United States, with a small sourcing office in Beijing, China. The company operates one owned facility in Rockland, Maine and leases twenty-four manufacturing, service, and upfit facilities across twelve states. The Work Truck Attachments segment benefits from an extensive distribution network comprising approximately 3,000 points of sale, primarily through North American truck equipment and lawn care equipment distributors concentrated in snow belt regions. The Work Truck Solutions segment maintains approximately 2,700 customer relationships across the truck equipment industry.

The company maintains a substantial installed base exceeding 500,000 snowplows and sand and salt spreaders in service, providing predictable replacement demand driven by typical equipment lifecycles of nine to twelve years. Douglas Dynamics holds approximately 46 U.S. registered trademarks, 51 U.S. issued patents, and 7 Canadian patents protecting its proprietary technology and brand identity. The company's competitive advantages include exceptional brand equity developed over 75 years, the industry's broadest product offering, operational efficiency through lean manufacturing principles, and strong cash flow generation capabilities that support reinvestment, acquisitions, and shareholder returns.

Company details
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Industrial Machinery
Headquarters
MILWAUKEE, WI
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1287213
SIC
3531

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-165.12M$70.58M$306.28M$541.97M$777.67M2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns DOUGLAS DYNAMICS, INC — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

240
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$439.96M
held by funds, at market
37.2%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · DOUGLAS DYNAMICS, INC’s weight in each

Allspring Special Small Cap Value Fund
ESPAX · ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST
1.98%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.04%of fund net assets
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
PRSVX · T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
0.24%of fund net assets
1.67%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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