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Preformed Line Products Company

IndustrialsConstruction
Ticker PLPCCLEVELAND, OHFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $104.25Diluted shares 4.9M

Preformed Line Products Company (Nasdaq: PLPC) designs and manufactures products and systems for constructing and maintaining overhead, ground-mounted and underground energy, telecommunications, cable and data networks. Its products support, protect, connect, terminate and secure cables and wires, including… From the company’s description.

Over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, Preformed Line Products Company reported revenue of $771.57M, up 16.3% from a year earlier, and net income of $58.51M. Its operating margin was 10.1%, and operations generated $90.04M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $669.34M, up 12.7% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $35.31M.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-09-30
Sales & profitability
$669.34MFY2025
+12.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $771.57M
8.24%FY2025
−0.3 percentage points
Last 12 mo 10.14%
$35.31MFY2025
−4.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $58.51M
7.42%FY2025
−1.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 11.41%
Cash & financing
$73.47MFY2025
+8.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $90.04M
$33.34MFY2025
−36.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $36.23M
0.08FY2025
Was 0.07× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.11
4.9MFY2025
−0.1% year over year
Last 12 mo 4.9M

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 Preformed Line Products Company does

In the company’s own words

Preformed Line Products Company (Nasdaq: PLPC) designs and manufactures products and systems for constructing and maintaining overhead, ground-mounted and underground energy, telecommunications, cable and data networks. Its products support, protect, connect, terminate and secure cables and wires, including formed-wire solutions, connectors, fiber-optic and copper splice closures, solar mounting hardware and electric-vehicle charging foundations. Customers include energy utilities, communications companies, cable operators, government agencies, contractors, distributors and value-added resellers. The company reports three product groups: Energy, Communications and Special Industries. Energy products, including transmission and distribution line hardware, accounted for about 71% of 2025 revenue; Communications products, such as network closures and fiber deployment components, contributed 22%; and Special Industries products, including inspection services, solar mounting systems and EV charging foundations, contributed 7%. PLP serves markets worldwide through domestic and international manufacturing facilities and had 3,734 employees at December 31, 2025. Its website is http://www.plp.com.

Company details
Sector
Industrials
Industry (SIC)
Construction
Headquarters
CLEVELAND, OH
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
80035
SIC
1623

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2011–2025 · USD
$-77.16M$154.31M$385.78M$617.26M$848.73M201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 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 Preformed Line Products Company — and what changed

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

213
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$501.10M
held by funds, at market
27.1%
of shares held by funds

Superinvestors in Preformed Line Products Company · what they did last quarter

Polen CapitalDECREASED -6.3%
Polen Capital Management
<0.1%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Preformed Line Products Company’s weight in each

—of fund net assets
Wasatch Core Growth Fund
WGROX · WASATCH FUNDS TRUST
—of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
Wasatch Small Cap Value Fund
WMCVX · WASATCH FUNDS TRUST
—of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.03%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”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

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

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