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National Presto Industries, Inc.

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National Presto Industries, Inc.

NPK·NYSE·Manufacturing·CIK 0000080172

National Presto Industries, Inc. operates through three business segments: Housewares/Small Appliance, Defense, and Safety. The Housewares/Small Appliance segment designs, markets, and distributes housewares and small electrical appliances. These products include pressure cookers and canners (available in stovetop and digital forms, made from aluminum and/or stainless steel), the Presto Control Master® heat control line of skillets, griddles, woks, and multi-purpose cookers, slow cookers, deep fryers, waffle makers, pizza ovens, slicer/shredders, electric heaters, corn poppers (hot air, oil, and microwave), dehydrators, vacuum sealers, microwave bacon cookers, coffeemakers and accessories, electric knife sharpeners, and timers. The Defense segment manufactures 40mm ammunition, precision mechanical and electro-mechanical assemblies, medium caliber cartridge cases, and metal parts. It also performs Load, Assemble and Pack (LAP) operations on ordnance-related products, primarily for the United States Government and prime contractors, and manufactures detonators, booster pellets, release cartridges, lead azide, other military energetic devices and materials, and assemblies. The Safety segment, through its startup Rely Innovations, Inc., offers smoke, carbon monoxide (CO), and combo smoke/CO alarms with voice messages in English and Spanish, and CO alarms with large digital displays. This segment also markets an economy line of carbon monoxide and smoke alarms and a PFAS-Free Foam commercial fire extinguisher.

National Presto Industries, Inc. (NYSE:NPK) is a publicly traded company in the Manufacturing sector. Wiseek has independently scored 16 items for NPK at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-08-14, rated 7/10. Across its 16 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 9/10, with 6 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for NPK spans 8-K, 10-Q, SCHEDULE 13D/A, 10-K.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • Defense Segment Secures $159.1M in New Contract Awards
  • Defense Backlog Hits $1.81B; Q2 EPS $2.21 with More Tariff Refunds Ahead
  • Defense Backlog and Tariff Refund Power National Presto's Q2 Earnings Surge
  • Defense Sales Surge 27% While Tariffs Hit Housewares, Sending Mixed Signals
  • National Presto Subsidiary Invests $90M in New Defense Ammunition Facility

Financial Snapshot

Fiscal year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
$503.52M
Net Income
$33.08M
Op. Cash Flow
-$9.14M
Free Cash Flow
-$36.17M
Gross Profit
$80.33M
Operating Income
$40.24M
Cash & Equivalents
$3.25M
Debt / Equity
0.00×
Net Margin
6.6%
Shares Outstanding
7.12M sh
Source: 10-K · filed 2026-03-13 · accession 0001437749-26-008214

Short Interest & Short Volume

2.44 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 243,733 shares in NPK as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 6.4% decrease from the prior period — about 2.4 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 2, 2026, 68.6% of NPK volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)243,733 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period▼ 6.4%
Days to cover2.44 at avg daily volume of 99,760
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)68.6% of 25,394 shares on October 2, 2026
5-day average short volume55.7%

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

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52-week range · as of 2026-08-14 $91.28 – $150.73
Market cap
$1.08B
Volume
83K (0.8× avg)
3-mo avg 108.9K
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