AMERICA’S TOP 20 SMALL & MID-SIZED INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES

ranked by a decade of financial and market performance.

The Titanium Cohort

delivered 6x returns

Over the last decade — twice that of the S&P 500.

Companies in the 2026 Cohort
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The Titanium Cohort – 6x returns over the last decade – twice that of S&P 500

5 Year Performance Overview

The operational muscle behind the outperformance:

13.1%

10-Year
 Revenue CAGR

vs. 6.3% S&P 500

784 bps

ROIC expansion

176 bps for the S&P 500

1,127 bps

EBITDA margin expansion

335 bps for the S&P 500

3.2x

EV/Sales multiple increase

2x for the S&P 500

These Top 20 Companies Follow a Five-Part Playbook
1.
Reshape the Portfolio toward Higher-value Markets
2.
Build the Recurring Revenue Engine
3.
Acquire Programmatically, Integrate with Discipline
4.
Out-innovate Inside the Niche
5.
Convert Growth into Cash and Redeploy It

EXPLORE

The Titanium Economy

Learn more about the 35 companies profiled in our 2022 book. Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam discuss companies in this under-appreciated and under-valued sector of the economy and evaluate it for what it really is: a reliable source of high-paying, domestic jobs and soaring stock prices—a bright spot in an economy that has too often been buffeted by external shocks.