Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for MIDD in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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NASDAQ: MIDD
Middleby (MIDD) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$106.68−0.98 (−0.9%)
Gekko Brief
Middleby closed at $106.68 on 28 September 2026, -0.9% on the day. The price sits below both the 50-day ($119.04) and 200-day ($142.38) moving averages, inside a 52-week range of $104.24 to $176.44. The GekkoIndex reads 66.2, in the Accumulation zone, up 1.4 points over five sessions. Gekko Fair Value is $121.30, so the price is 12.1% below it.
The next earnings report is due on 5 November 2026, 37 days away. Over the last 8 reports the company beat the earnings estimate 5 times, with an average move of 7.6% across the report. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days from this point averaged -2.3% over the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
7 firms rate the stock: 6 buy, 1 hold and 0 sell, with a consensus target of $155.89. A typical daily move is about 2.9%, and a typical 20-day move about 5.9%. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 items read supportive and 2 read as a headwind (trend, seasonality).
Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Middleby price vs fair value
Close $106.68200-day averageGekko Fair Value $121.30
Middleby quick facts
- Market cap
- $4.82B
- P/E ratio
- 16.9
- Forward P/E
- 14.6
- EPS, TTM
- $6.40
- Revenue, TTM
- $3.39B
- Profit margin
- -13.9%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.33
- Volume
- 545,650 avg 605,846
- 1-year return
- −19.0%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.9%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.9%
- 50-day average
- $119.04
- 200-day average
- $142.38
- Next earnings
- Nov 5
- Shares outstanding
- 45.22M
Middleby swing-trade checklist
Middleby scores 3 supportive, 0 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive0 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $106.68 is below the 50-day ($119.04) and 200-day ($142.38) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
66.2, Accumulation
Reading 66.2 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
12.1% below
Price is 12.1% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 37 days
Next report Nov 5, 2026, 37 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalityheadwind
−2.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −2.3% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
See seasonality
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Middleby stock chart and price history
Middleby closed at $106.68 on Sep 28, 2026, −19.0% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $104.24 to $176.44.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −6.1%
- 3 months
- −38.3%
- 6 months
- −17.1%
- 1 year
- −19.0%
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About Middleby
Middleby designs, builds, markets and services equipment used in commercial kitchens, industrial food production, and home kitchens. It is known for a wide catalogue of cooking, warming, refrigeration, and beverage equipment supplied to restaurants and other professional kitchen operators, alongside machinery used by manufacturers of packaged foods and appliances sold for household use.
The company organizes its work into three groups. One serves professional foodservice operations with ovens, fryers, grills, ventilation, refrigeration, ice machines, and drink and brewing equipment, including connected IoT features. Another supplies industrial-scale machinery for processing, slicing, mixing, forming, coating, filling, freezing and packaging food, used by makers of products such as sausages, poultry, lunchmeat, muffins, cookies and bread. The third produces high-end residential kitchen appliances, including cookers, dishwashers, cooktops, wine coolers, ice machines and outdoor kitchen equipment. Its business reaches customers across the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
Middleby traces its origins to 1888, when it started as the Middleby Marshall Oven Company, and it took on its present name in 1985. The company is headquartered in Elgin, Illinois, and its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker MIDD.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Website
- middleby.com
Middleby GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Middleby’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 66.2, in the Accumulation zone, up 1.4 points over five sessions.
66.2Accumulation
Up 1.4 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 62 | +0.8% | +1.9% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 226 | −0.2% | +1.9% | ||
| Neutral | 355 | 0.0% | −1.7% | ||
| Distribution | 23 | −0.4% | −2.0% | ||
| Selling | 6 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average MIDD share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Middleby stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Middleby trades 12.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $121.30, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Middleby shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$121.30
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026
12.1% Undervalued
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Middleby insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Middleby, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in MIDD were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Middleby has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jul 4, 2026
- $207.1M
- As a share of market cap
- 4.29%
- Trailing four quarters
- $939.8M
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
0of the funds Gekko tracks hold MIDD.
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Middleby earnings: next date and track record
Middleby reports on Nov 5, 2026 (37 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 5, 2026
37 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.74
- Revenue estimate
- $634.0M
5 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±7.6%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 11, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Middleby completed its business transformation by spinning off its food processing business (MDF) and selling a controlling stake in residential kitchen to 26 North, returning $1.3 billion to shareholders including $200 million in Q2. Commercial Foodservice delivered 8%+ organic revenue growth in Q2, the second consecutive quarter of organic growth. However, EBITDA margins missed expectations due to ice/beverage platform mix (~400bps lower margins) and accelerated inflationary pressures from ocean freight and steel surcharges.
- Guidance
- Management raised second-half revenue guidance with confidence in continued organic growth momentum. Three-year targets include 3-6% organic sales growth, 6-9% adjusted EBITDA growth, and 10-15% adjusted EPS growth. Sequential margin improvements expected in Q3 and Q4 despite persistent near-term pressures.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2026 | $1.74 est $2.09 | $630.6M est $837.0M | −8.7% |
| May 7, 2026 | $2.16 est $1.94 | $839.9M est $777.2M | +15.6% |
| Feb 26, 2026 | $2.14 est $2.28 | $866.4M est $986.1M | +7.0% |
| Nov 6, 2025 | $2.37 est $2.03 | $982.1M est $1.01B | −0.2% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | $2.35 est $2.20 | $977.9M est $968.2M | −17.0% |
| May 7, 2025 | $2.08 est $1.94 | $906.6M est $1.01B | +3.1% |
| Feb 25, 2025 | $2.88 est $2.50 | $1.01B est $945.9M | −1.7% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | $2.33 est $2.48 | $942.8M est $995.2M | −7.3% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Middleby stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Middleby is $155.89, +46.1% from the last close, from 7 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$155.89consensus 12-month target, +46.1% from the last close
Now $106.68Avg $155.89
Low $147High $160
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 7 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21 | J.P. Morgan | $147 | +37.8% |
| Sep 15 | J.P. Morgan | $147 | +37.8% |
| Sep 1 | Canaccord Genuity | $160 | +50.0% |
| Aug 12 | J.P. Morgan | $141 | +32.2% |
| Aug 12 | Oppenheimer | $160 | +50.0% |
+1.9%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
−2.3%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.9%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Middleby seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Middleby averaged −2.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.2% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −2.8% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −2.9% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −2.3% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −0.3% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, MIDD’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5.9%.
Middleby market cap and key statistics
Middleby’s market cap is $4.82B, with a P/E ratio of 16.9 and revenue of $3.39B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $4.82B
- P/E ratio
- 16.9
- Forward P/E
- 14.6
- EPS, TTM
- $6.40
- Gekko Fair Value
- $121.30
Trading
- Volume
- 545,650
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 605,846
- 52-week high
- $176.44
- 52-week low
- $104.24
- Shares outstanding
- 45.22M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $3.39B
- Profit margin
- -13.9%
- Return on equity
- 11%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- −39.3%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.33
- Typical daily move
- ±2.9%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.9%
Middleby stock news this week
1 headline about Middleby from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- The Middleby Corporation (MIDD) Stock Price, News, Quote & HistoryYahoo! Finance Canada, Sep 23
Middleby peers
Middleby’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| LRCXLam Research | Neutral | 7.7% above |
| AMATApplied Materials | Neutral | 11.5% below |
| PHParker-Hannifin | Neutral | 5.9% above |
| TTTrane Technologies | Neutral | 13.7% above |
| JCIJohnson Controls International | Neutral | 11.4% above |
| CARRCarrier Global | Accumulation | 4.9% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Middleby stock FAQ
What is Middleby’s market cap?
Middleby’s market cap is $4.82B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $106.68, with 45.22M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 16.9.
What is the Middleby stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Middleby is $155.89, +46.1% from the last close. Of the 7 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 6 rate it a buy, 1 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Middleby stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Middleby is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $106.68 is 12.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $121.30. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Middleby report earnings next?
Middleby is expected to report on Nov 5, 2026 (37 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.74 per share on revenue of $634.0M. Middleby beat the earnings estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports, moving 7.6% on average across the report.
What is Middleby’s 52-week high and low?
Middleby’s 52-week high is $176.44 and its 52-week low is $104.24; it closed at $106.68 on Sep 28, 2026, −19.0% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $201.34 on Feb 9, 2022.
Is Middleby stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and earnings risk) and 2 as headwinds (trend and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
How this page works
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