CECO Environmental Corp. (CECO) Stock Price & How to Invest

CECO Environmental was incorporated in 1966 and now runs out of Addison, Texas, just outside Dallas. It sells engineered equipment that cleans, moves, separates, quiets and heats industrial process streams: selective catalytic reduction systems and gas turbine inlet and exhaust packages for power plants, cyclones and dust collectors for cement and metals, thermal oxidizers and scrubbers for chemicals, filtration and fluid handling for semiconductors and food processing, and acoustic enclosures where noise limits are part of the permit. The business is reported in two segments, Engineered Systems and Industrial Process Solutions. On June 1, 2026 CECO closed a roughly $2.2 billion combination with Thermon Group, a maker of electric and steam heat tracing, controllers, boilers and thermal fluid heaters, adding a business with roughly $520 million of annual revenue, gross margins near 45 percent and a large recurring maintenance component. CECO shareholders own about 62.5 percent of the combined company.

The investment picture is a demand story wrapped around an integration story. Orders reached a record of roughly $1,064 million in 2025, then rose about 97 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2026 to roughly $450 million, a 2.2 times book to bill that pushed backlog past $1 billion for the first time. Management points at the same source everyone else in industrial capital equipment is pointing at: natural gas generation being built to feed data centers, AI computing, reshored factories and electrification, with a stated pipeline above $8 billion after the Thermon close. Against that, reported profitability is thin. Trailing twelve month revenue is roughly $804 million against roughly $14 million of GAAP net income, deal and integration costs sit on the income statement, share count rose by about 22.5 million shares to fund Thermon, and the stock trades well below the highs it set before the deal was announced. What the market is paying for is the guided 2026 combined figures and the synergy plan behind them, not the trailing results.

Project revenue is lumpy, and a book to bill above two in one quarter does not repeat forever. The Thermon deal added roughly 22.5 million shares and several hundred million dollars of drawn debt at once, so integration slippage or synergy shortfall shows up directly in per-share results, and the stock already fell hard from its pre-deal highs on dilution concerns. GAAP profitability is currently small relative to a roughly $4 billion market value, meaning the multiple rests on guided 2026 and 2027 figures rather than delivered ones. The order surge is concentrated in natural gas generation tied to data center construction, a capital cycle that can pause faster than a backlog implies. CECO also has a history of resetting guidance, including a revenue cut in January 2025 that knocked the shares down, and the second quarter 2026 report was pushed from August 6 to August 10 while the company completed reporting work following the Thermon close.

6 analysts publish price targets on CECO, averaging $111.83 against a $69.12 price as of August 2026, or +61.8%. The published targets run from $85.00 to $130.00, a moderate spread, and the ratings split 6 buy, 0 hold, 0 sell. Over the last six months there have been 7 raises and 0 cuts among the published actions. A price target is what an analyst published on a date, not a prediction, and sell-side ratings skew positive across the whole market.

Read the full CECO forecast and price target for the target table, the recent rating actions by firm, and how the consensus has shifted.

We give no verdict on CECO Environmental Corp.. Both cases are real, which is why the question is contested at all, so here is the strongest version of each.

The case for buying. Natural gas power and the data center buildout. CECO's largest order ever, booked in April 2026, was gas turbine inlet air conditioning and emissions management for a large Texas natural gas plant serving data center expansion. The most optimistic published target, $130.00, assumes this works close to its best case.

The case against. Project revenue is lumpy, and a book to bill above two in one quarter does not repeat forever. The most pessimistic target, $85.00, is roughly what CECO is worth if this bites instead.

Read the full bull and bear case on CECO, including what would have to change to break either one. Walnut is not an investment adviser.

A simple financial snapshot. These are approximations and refresh quarterly; for current figures see CECO Environmental Corp.'s investor relations page or your broker.

• Revenue (TTM): ~$804M, with FY2025 revenue of ~$774M, up ~39%
• FY2026 guidance (with Thermon): Revenue ~$1.275B to ~$1.375B, adjusted EBITDA ~$195M to ~$225M
• Q1 2026 orders and backlog: Orders ~$450M (up ~97%), backlog ~$1.035B, book to bill ~2.2x
• Q1 2026 margins: Gross margin ~31%, adjusted EBITDA margin ~9.9%, adjusted EPS ~$0.36
• Market cap: ~$4.0B (~58M shares near ~$69), 52 week range ~$43 to ~$101
• Earnings multiple: GAAP P/E ~180x on ~$14M TTM net income, forward P/E ~33x; no dividend

The trailing numbers and the forward numbers describe two different companies, because Thermon only joined on June 1, 2026 and the 2026 guide carries seven months of it. That gap is why the GAAP multiple looks extreme while the forward multiple looks like an ordinary growth industrial. Anyone reading CECO on trailing figures alone will misprice it in one direction, and anyone reading it purely on guidance assumes the synergy and conversion plan lands.

Other names that sit close to CECO: same theme, named as a direct competitor, or held beside it in the same funds. Each entry says which. Worth a look if you are thinking about diversification within a thesis rather than concentration on one ticker.

There are three common ways to get CECO exposure. Buy shares (or fractional shares) directly at any major broker. Hold an ETF that includes it, which spreads the position across many companies. Or build it into a focused thematic portfolio, so CECO sits alongside other stocks that express the same thesis.

Walnut takes the portfolio route. Describe a thesis where CECO fits (for example “AI infrastructure” or “dividend-growth large-caps”) and the AI proposes 5 to 6 constituents with target weights. You review the plan and fund it through your own broker when you're ready.

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CECO is an acquisitive industrial geared to natural gas power and the data center buildout, priced on what the combined company with Thermon can earn rather than on what it earns today.

Whether CECO is worth buying today depends more on your time horizon and what you already hold than on any single call. We walk through valuation, what would have to go right, and the risks in is CECO a buy or a sell?, and where the stock could go from here in the CECO stock forecast.

For income investors, whether CECO pays a dividend and how the payout looks is covered in does CECO pay a dividend? And to weigh CECO against a peer, read the full side-by-side comparisons: CECO vs FTEK and CECO vs XYL.