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Company snapshot — IDEX Corporation

IEX in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
IDEX builds pumps, valves, seals and precision fluid-handling parts across three segments: Health & Science Technologies, Fluid & Metering Technologies, and Fire & Safety/Diversified Products. Customers span laboratories, hospitals, industrial plants and fire departments across North America, Europe and Asia. The company is based in Northbrook, Illinois.
Where it sits in the stack
IDEX carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits in the Industrials sector of our wider universe, under specialty industrial machinery. Its pumps and fluid-handling gear serve general manufacturing rather than chip or data-centre build-out, so it stands outside the stack we track for that theme.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group for IDEX is not yet set. A comparison the market often draws is with Dover Corporation, another diversified maker of pumps, valves and fluid-handling equipment.
Why Closelook tracks it
IDEX holds no Rubin seat and carries no Closelook score; the diary notes it only as an S&P 500 constituent, with no quotes or module readings recorded so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether broader industrial capital spending lifts demand across IDEX's three segments, none of which touch AI infrastructure directly.

IDEX Corporation (IEX) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for IEX, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Industrial Machinery · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Industrial Machinery · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against IEX on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.30%, quarterly · last 0.73 USD on 2026-07-06

Dividends and capital return

What IEX pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.88 USD per share · a 1.30% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +2.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.80 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.73 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-06
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.64 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.71 USD · 2025: 2.82 USD · 2026: 2.17 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-12

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is IDEX Corporation (IEX)?

IDEX Corporation trades as IEX on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is IEX in a Closelook index?

Not currently — IDEX Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does IEX trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -2.9% vs the 50-day and +6.9% vs the 200-day average, 9% below the 52-week high and +41.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does IDEX Corporation do?

IDEX builds pumps, valves, seals and precision fluid-handling parts across three segments: Health & Science Technologies, Fluid & Metering Technologies, and Fire & Safety/Diversified Products. Customers span laboratories, hospitals, industrial plants and fire departments across North America, Europe and Asia. The company is based in Northbrook, Illinois. Closelook's peer group for IDEX is not yet set. A comparison the market often draws is with Dover Corporation, another diversified maker of pumps, valves and fluid-handling equipment.

Where does IDEX Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

IDEX carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits in the Industrials sector of our wider universe, under specialty industrial machinery. Its pumps and fluid-handling gear serve general manufacturing rather than chip or data-centre build-out, so it stands outside the stack we track for that theme. IDEX holds no Rubin seat and carries no Closelook score; the diary notes it only as an S&P 500 constituent, with no quotes or module readings recorded so far.

Does IDEX Corporation pay a dividend?

IDEX Corporation has paid 2.88 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.30% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.73 USD on 2026-07-06. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for IEX, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Industrial Machinery. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.