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LeMaitre Vascular

LMAT
73
Medical - Instruments & Supplies · Healthcare
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
73
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A high-quality business with solid fundamentals.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Strong
Growth
Exceptional
Cash Flow
Exceptional
Stability
Strong
Valuation
Mixed
Dividends
Good

Winston Score History

The full picture

LeMaitre Vascular makes medical devices used in surgeries on blood vessels outside the heart — a field called peripheral vascular surgery. Its products include grafts, patches, catheters, and valvulotomes, which are tools surgeons use to repair or replace damaged arteries and veins. The company sells primarily to hospitals and vascular surgeons across North America and Europe.

LeMaitre earns revenue by selling these single-use and implantable devices directly to hospitals, which gives it strong gross margins above 70%. It operates in more than 30 countries but generates most of its sales in the United States and Western Europe, where it holds leading positions in several niche product categories that larger competitors have largely ignored. The company's main growth driver is expanding its product portfolio through small acquisitions of niche vascular devices, though its relatively small size and narrow surgical specialty mean that any slowdown in procedure volumes or integration missteps could meaningfully impact results.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+9.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+23.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

Insider Activity

6.9%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$376M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

LeMaitre Vascular is growing revenue at 10% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
72.1%
Premium pricing power — 72.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
29.0%
Excellent — 29.0% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
13.1%
Good — 13.1% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+11.8%
Steady sales growth (+11.8% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+38.1%
Earnings growing fast (+38.1% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
8/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
126%
Turns 126% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
28.1%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (28.1%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.40
Conservative — low debt load (0.40)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
14.88x
Comfortably covers interest (14.9x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
28.2x
no trend
Growth-priced — P/E 28.2

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
-3.2
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
0.88%
no trend
Small dividend — 0.88% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
+25.0%
no trend
Dividend growing fast (25.0% YoY)

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