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Allegion plc ALLE

Market cap $13.1BP/E 19.9× trailingGross margin 44.8%Reports Thu 22 Oct, before the open
$154.29
+1.81 (+1.19%)live 11:30 ET
52-wk $125.00 – $183.11
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Orin's take
0.68conviction · moderate
Refreshed 30 Aug · take v7. A new filing or a print queues the next refresh.

Allegion is a buy at $157.48 following a post-earnings pullback that cooled RSI to a neutral 47.7, with shares trading at a P/E of 20.56 — an 8.4% discount to the peer median of 22.45 — despite FY2025 revenue of $4.07B (7.8% YoY growth), operating margins expanding to 21.13%, and FCF of $685.7M. Q2 2026 results beat estimates (EPS $2.40 vs $2.22) with revenue up approximately 13% YoY and raised full-year guidance, while the August 2026 Schlage XE360 launch with RealSync technology reinforces the electronic access growth runway.

The stock remains above both its 50-day ($150.50) and 200-day ($151.33) moving averages, and smart money positioning has improved from -0.0154 as of the quarter ended 2025-12-31 to -0.0024 as of the quarter ended 2026-06-30.

What could go wrong

  • Insider selling. Recent transactions show the CEO sold 11,292 shares on 2026-08-01, the CTO sold 1,000 shares on 2026-08-06, and the International President sold 6,417 shares on 2026-07-27 — though net insider activity over 24 months remains positive at +110,776 shares.
  • P/S premium to peers. At 3.12x sales, ALLE trades at a 36.1% premium to the peer median P/S of 2.29, limiting downside protection if revenue growth disappoints.
  • Bearish MACD crossover. MACD histogram is negative at -1.65 with the signal line above the MACD line, suggesting near-term momentum weakness despite the stock holding above its moving averages.
  • Construction cycle sensitivity. Demand for Allegion's commercial and residential security products is tied to nonresidential and residential construction cycles; any slowdown in construction spending could pressure the growth trajectory.

What would change my mind

Q3 2026 earnings. Revenue and EPS continue the Q2 momentum with International segment recovery confirmed and full-year guidance reiterated or raisedbullish
Insider activity reversal. Senior executives begin open-market purchases rather than option-exercise-and-sell patternsbullish
Construction spending deceleration. Macro construction indicators weaken and Allegion's Americas segment growth slows below high-single digitsbearish

Where this comes from: FMP fundamentals FY2025; derived_metrics FY2025 · derived_metrics FY2025 · FMP fundamentals FY2025 · peer_relative. Orin's read on ALLE; not advice.

Twelve months actual closes to 2026-09-24 · actual filings

Sept 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26

50-day average 200-day average · volume below

Largest holders · 13F Q2 2026

Money flow
FilerPositionOf fund
Vanguard Capital Management$789.8M0.0% of fund
Vanguard Portfolio Management$695.9M0.0% of fund
State Street$610.3M0.0% of fund
Geode Capital Management$405.6M0.0% of fund
Invesco$322.1M0.0% of fund
Massachusetts Financial Services /Ma/$317.6M0.1% of fund

78 filers · quarter ended Q2 2026 · positions, not flows

Insiders, last 24 months: 134 Form 4 filings, net $1.5M. Of the 50 on hand, 4 were open-market purchases and 6 sales— the rest are grants, option exercises and tax withholding.

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Where it trades

vs its own 5y · Industrials
MetricNowOwn medianSector
P/E19.9×20.6×44.5×
EV/EBITDA14.7×15.8×—
P/S3.02×3.05×—
P/B6.2×8.4×—

Its P/E sits 20th percentile of its own last 5 years (−0.67σ from its own mean).

What the price assumes

6.9%

free-cash-flow growth every year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, is what today’s price implies — starting from $0.7B of trailing free cash flow. It is an assumption the market is making, not a forecast Orin is making.

What Wall Street published

23 firms · 2026-09-24
Consensus target

$164

$142 – $180 · +6% against today's price

How they rate it
  • 8 buy or overweight
  • 15 hold
  • 0 underweight or sell

The analysts’ consensus and their own ratings, not Orin’s. A target is a twelve-month opinion published by the firm that wrote it.

Against the companies it is compared to

median P/E 21.2× of 6 peers
CompanyMarket capP/EEV/EBITDAGrossNetROE
ALLEAllegion plc$13B19.9×14.7×44.8%15.4%32%
AVYAvery Dennison Corporation$13B18.5×12.0×29.0%7.6%31%
CSLCarlisle Companies Incorporated$13B17.9×11.9×35.3%14.2%41%
GGGGraco Inc.$12B23.9×16.4×52.6%23.5%20%
ITTITT Inc.$19B41.8×25.0×34.6%8.9%10%
TXTTextron Inc.$13B14.3×9.1×16.5%6.1%12%
WSOWatsco, Inc.$13B27.7×18.1×27.9%6.5%17%

The median is of the 6 peers listed above and nothing else — check it against the column. This company trades 6.1% below it. The peer set is the vendor’s, so a company can appear here that a person would not have chosen.

What it has traded at

P/E by fiscal year
FY14 30.5×FY25 21.3×

What its sector has traded at

Industrials
FY14 173.5×FY26 32.6×

Two scales, drawn separately on purpose: a sector median and one company’s multiple are not the same number and putting them on one axis invites a comparison neither series supports.

Every estimate on one scale

price $154.29
52-week range$125 – $183
Analyst targets$142 – $180
At own 5y-median P/E (21×)$158
At 5y P/E range (19–25×)$146 – $189
At sector P/E (45×)$341

The vertical rule is the current price. Ranges and point estimates are the backend’s, published as they were calculated; an arrow means the estimate sits beyond this scale, and its number is on the right.