By the StockSemáforo model · Updated June 30, 2026

Best industrial stocks

Industrials —machinery, aerospace, defense, transport— are cyclical: profits rise and fall with the economy. Watch margins through the cycle, debt, and the weight of recurring service-and-parts revenue, which is far steadier.

This ranking sorts by fundamental quality, not by whether a stock is cheap or expensive: an excellent company can be expensive. To find the fair price, enter its quote in the analyzer. The scores recompute on their own with each new SEC filing.

90

quality /100

Margin 19.5%Growth 30.7%FCF 32.6%Debt/EBITDA 0.25x

Booking Holdings is the world's largest online travel group, owner of Booking.com, Priceline, Kayak and OpenTable.

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88

quality /100

Margin 30.9%ROE 63.4%Growth 14.3%FCF 27.7%Debt/EBITDA -0.04x
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82

quality /100

Margin 13.3%ROE 50.5%Growth 10.6%FCF 13.4%Debt/EBITDA 1.91x

Caterpillar is the world's largest maker of heavy construction and mining machinery: excavators, giant trucks, engines and generators.

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78

quality /100

Margin 11%ROE 27.9%Growth 10.3%FCF 12.9%Debt/EBITDA 0.07x
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75

quality /100

Margin 19.3%ROE 97%Growth 5%FCF 16.9%Debt/EBITDA 1.81x
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74

quality /100

Margin 29.2%ROE 37.1%Growth 4.6%FCF 23.1%Debt/EBITDA 2.5x

Union Pacific is one of the largest freight railroads in the U.S.

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71

quality /100

Margin 14%ROE 20.2%Growth 9.3%FCF 13.2%Debt/EBITDA 3.82x
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68

quality /100

Margin 4.9%ROE 15%Growth 5.1%FCF 4.8%Debt/EBITDA 1.19x
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68

quality /100

Margin 8.1%ROE 16.6%Growth 6.9%FCF 11.5%Debt/EBITDA 0.68x
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66

quality /100

Margin 8%ROE 10.9%Growth 9.3%FCF 9.4%Debt/EBITDA 2.41x

RTX (formerly Raytheon) is one of the world's largest aerospace and defense groups.

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