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QEPC · Industrials · Manufacturing - Tools & Accessories · Market cap $120M

1 fund in our archive has pitched QEP — most recently Smoak Capital in December 2024.

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Q.E.P. Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes a range of hardwood flooring, flooring installation tools, adhesives, and flooring related products for the professional installer markets. It operates through three segments: North America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. The company's product portfolio includes tile saws, blades, and accessories; tile cutters and accessories; hand tools; tile spacers; scrapers; trowels and floats; mixers and paddles; drill bits, hole saws, and jigsaw blades; scarpers and blades clean-up, repair, and maintenance products; knee pads and safety tools; installation kits; underlayment products; cement boards and masonry tools; and Brutus products. The company markets its products under the QEP, LASH, Roberts, Harris Flooring Group, Capitol, HarrisWood, Kraus, Naturally Aged Flooring, Vitrex, Homelux, Brutus, PRCI, Plasplugs, Tomecanic, Premix-Marbletite (PMM), Apple Creek, and Elastimentt brands. It sells its products to home improvement retail centers, specialty distribution outlets, and flooring dealers. Q.E.P. Co., Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Fund coverage · 1 thesis

  • Smoak Capital
    December 2024

    QEP is a flooring installation tools company that has successfully divested underperforming operations, improved profitability, and is now positioned for significant upside with a strong relationship with Home Depot and promising capital allocation strategies.

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