Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling reported second-quarter revenues of $812.9 million, down 15% year on year but exceeding analysts' expectations by 1%, in what was a very strong quarter for the company with a beat of analysts' EPS estimates. The result was the slowest revenue growth among the 9 professional tools and equipment stocks tracked, a group whose revenues as a whole beat analysts' consensus estimates by 2.1% while next quarter's revenue guidance came in 14.3% above. Kennametal posted the group's best quarter, with revenues of $736.6 million, up 42.6% year on year and 1.3% ahead of expectations, alongside the fastest revenue growth and highest full-year guidance raise in the group. Lincoln Electric reported revenues of $1.22 billion, up 12% year on year and 4.6% above expectations, though it significantly missed analysts' organic revenue estimates, while Stanley Black & Decker reported revenues of $3.96 billion, flat year on year and in line with expectations, marking the weakest performance against analyst estimates of the whole group. Snap-on reported revenues of $1.33 billion, up 4.2% year on year and 1.1% above expectations. On average, shares of the group are down 9.1% since the latest earnings results; Hyster-Yale is down 9% since reporting and currently trades at $31.98.