Park Aerospace (NYSE: PKE) stock, which produces advanced composite materials used in the production of airplanes, jumped 3.5% through 10:05 a.m. ET Wednesday after reporting fiscal Q3 2026 earnings last night.
Park Aerospace gets zero coverage on Wall Street, so the company didn’t “beat” or “miss” estimates with its report — because there were no estimates. The aerospace supplier earned $0.15 per share on sales of $17.3 million in fiscal Q3. Sales climbed 20% year over year, while earnings per share nearly doubled over the $0.08 Park earned in last year’s Q3.
Sales for the first nine months of the fiscal year increased by only 9%, so the Q3 performance was significantly better than the year as a whole, suggesting that business is picking up.
Earnings for the first nine months are now $0.37, putting the company on track to earn perhaps $0.50 for the year — or even more if it can maintain the business acceleration seen in Q3.
Assuming Park hits that mark, then at a share price of just under $25, the stock would appear to be selling for a price-to-earnings ratio of roughly 50 times. That seems expensive, albeit the Q3 performance was pretty terrific.
A second reason to be wary of Park is the announcement, filed simultaneously with the earnings report with the SEC, that Park plans to sell common stock with attached warrants to buy stock, worth a total of $150 million. The shares and warrants are planned to be sold only “from time to time, in one or more offerings,” so the plans seem to be in flux.
Still, Park is promising some significant dilution of its stock. Investors should keep an eye on that.
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