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accession: "0000109563-24-000063"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AIT"
cik: "0000109563"
company_name: "APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:57:06.942219+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Industrial Q4 EPS $2.64, up 12.6% YoY; FY2025 guidance $9.20-$9.95

## Summary
- Q4 net sales $1.2B (+0.2% YoY); organic daily -2.0%. Net income $103.5M, EPS $2.64 (+12.6% YoY).
- FY2024 adjusted EPS $9.75 (+11.4% YoY); EBITDA $553.3M (+5.5%); net sales $4.5B (+1.5%).
- FY2025 guidance: total sales -2.5% to +2.5%, EPS $9.20-$9.95, EBITDA margins 12.1%-12.3%.
- Announced acquisitions of Total Machine Solutions and Stanley Proctor; combined ~$17M annual sales.
- Demand slowed into early FY2025; organic sales through mid-August down mid-single-digit YoY.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000109563-24-000063
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AIT
- cik: 0000109563
- company_name: APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/109563/000010956324000063/0000109563-24-000063-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/109563/000010956324000063/ait-20240815.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000109563-24-000063.txt

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