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Twin Disc, Incorporated

$TWIN·$338M·Industrial - Machinery·Industrials
$23.29-1.0%1Y+89.1%
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TWTWIN
$TWINTwin Disc, Incorporated
$23.29-0.98%101 posts+11%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $TWIN, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-08-26

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Twin Disc posted a 178% EPS beat with fresh multi-million A-Awards to the CEO — the $TWIN cashtag chatter is a Solana memecoin, not the industrial.

Twin Disc is a specialty marine and industrial power-transmission-equipment maker (transmissions, propellers) whose business has quietly inflected while the equity attracted an unrelated crypto community. Note the $TWIN cashtag on X is dominated by a Solana memecoin — the sentiment sample is not usable as a signal for the industrial.

  • The Q4 print was a genuine breakout: revenue $114M with EPS $0.64 vs sell-side $0.23 (a 178% beat) — a 337M-market-cap industrial delivering that scale of beat is a real inflection, and the follow-up A-Awards to CEO Batten ($2.34M) and Knutson ($1.14M) at $24 are a management-alignment signal at these prices.
  • The valuation is cheap on the fresh print: PE 12x trailing (after the Q4 beat), PS 0.89 — the FY27 sell-side EPS at $0.01 (basically flat) implies the sell-side hasn't updated models yet after the beat, so there's genuine room for consensus revision upward.
  • The tape is confirming the inflection: at 86% of the 52-week range, 2% above the 50-day and 28% above the 200-day on 0.88x normal volume with beta 0.67 — a small-cap industrial climbing on light volume with real earnings behind it is exactly the shape of a genuine institutional trade before the sell-side catches up.

The path if this works is the Nov 4 Q1 print delivering another clean beat plus concrete marine-and-industrial backlog commentary, taking the tape past $30. What breaks it is a soft backlog signal or a marine-cycle rollover — Twin Disc is levered to end-market cycles, and any softening cuts the multiple.

Differs from X sentimentThe bullish $TWIN X chatter is about a Solana community memecoin (sigma/mog/aura framing, jotchua/ket community), not the industrial equipment maker — cashtag collision — so the sentiment isn't a signal for the industrial at all; the actual bull case (178% Q4 EPS beat, CEO A-Awards, PE 12x) is not reflected in the X sample.

What to watch: Nov 4 Q1 print (sell-side EPS $0.01) — a clean beat plus concrete marine/industrial backlog commentary extends the tape past $30; a soft backlog signal or a marine-cycle rollover breaks the tape back toward $18. Ignore the $TWIN X sentiment — it's about a memecoin.

On the calendar: 2026-11-04 — Q1 earnings

cashtag confusion

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Neutral sentiment7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-26

The $TWIN cashtag in this window refers to a Solana memecoin community with posts about $Twin community engagement, spam-DM lessons from Y2K and Twin communities, and "cook" motion posts. Without a real equity conversation, no market posture on Twin Disc can be extracted from this window.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Twin Disc manufactures power transmission equipment (marine transmissions, torque converters, drive systems) for ships, off-highway vehicles, and industrial machinery.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Industrial - Machinery sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $TWIN.

Industrial - Machinery · Industrials

No material change from last week — electrical infrastructure for AI power density and robotic warehouse/manufacturing automation are pulling order books in different directions.

Industry benchmark

34-name peer basket
+24.7%YTD
+27.3%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
12.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
6.2%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
4.7%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
0.2%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
0.9Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
14.4%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
26.9%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.2Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 20, 2026$0.64$0.23+178.3%
Q1 2026May 6, 2026$0.23$0.25-8.0%
Q4 2025Feb 4, 2026$0.04$0.21-81.0%
Q3 2025Nov 5, 2025$-0.04$0.02-300.0%
Next earningsWed, Nov 4·consensus EPS $0.01

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q4 FY26$114.4M+18.3%26.3%6.8%$0.15—
Q3 FY26$96.7M+19.0%28.1%6.1%$0.23$1.8M
Q2 FY26$90.2M+0.3%24.8%2.3%$1.58$1.2M
Q1 FY26$80.0M+9.7%28.7%2.8%$-0.04$-11.0M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 1 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$367.2M$367.2M – $367.2M$1.99$1.99 – $1.991
FY27$410.1M$410.1M – $410.1M$0.74$0.74 – $0.741
FY28$442.9M$442.9M – $442.9M$1.02$1.02 – $1.021

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.8×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.85%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+2.0%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+27.8%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 10.4M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.675-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

No open-market buys or sells in the last 180 days.

+ 11 other (9 awards · 2 inkinds) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KPress release / Reg FDAug 258-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KPress release / Reg FDAug 208-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KPress release / Reg FDAug 208-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KOfficer or director changeAug 118-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
8-KMaterial agreementJul 68-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 68-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 68-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
+ 4 other (1 S-8 POS · 1 13G · 1 SD · 1 10-Q) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Twin Disc, Incorporated (TWIN) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcriptseekingalpha.com·7d agoTwin Disc Q4 Earnings Call Highlightsmarketbeat.com·7d agoTwin Disc Announces Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2026 Resultsglobenewswire.com·7d agoTwin Disc Announces Details of Fiscal 2026 Fourth Quarter Earnings Release, Webcast, and Conference Callglobenewswire.com·15d agoTwin Disc Increases Quarterly Cash Dividend 25% to $0.05 Per Shareglobenewswire.com·20d ago

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