Dover Corporation (DOV)
Diversified machinery maker, 24,000, five segments by revenue. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 75 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
38%
Employees, annual report
24,000
Leading staffing pattern
Machinery Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202838%
- End of 203041%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 59%
- Becomes checking a model's work 33%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A diversified industrial manufacturer whose filing states one worldwide total and five segments known by revenue, so the patterns follow the segments' products.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 20% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 38% at the end of 2028, 41% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 41% desk work, 16% people work and 43% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 59% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 33% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
24,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; 54% of revenue is from the United States.
The filing: “Dover is headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois and currently employs approximately 24,000 people worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Machinery Manufacturing | 70% | By revenue (c): Pumps and Process Solutions (27%), Clean Energy and Fueling (26%) and Climate and Sustainability Technologies (19%) make pumps, process components, fueling and fluid transfer equipment, refrigeration cases and heat exchangers, all machinery manufacturing, read at 70% because the site carries no narrower pattern for general purpose or refrigeration machinery. |
| Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing | 30% | By revenue (c): Imaging and Identification (14%, marking and coding printers) and Engineered Products (13%, vehicle service, waste handling and industrial equipment) are commercial and service industry machinery, read at 30%. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 24,000 employees worldwide as of December 31, 2025 (25,000 in 2023); operating companies run their own hiring; shared services centralized under Dover Business Services and an India Innovation Center; a Digital Labs team of software developers, data scientists and engineers.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Lam Research Corporation (LRCX, 23,300 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
9 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 9 times, in its Digital Labs team's AI engineers and models, and as a demand driver for its data center cooling products.
- “We have an experienced team of software developers, data scientists, and product managers to enhance our digital capabilities that is driving value creation across our business through digital transformation in five areas: (i) enhancing the customer experience through more efficient and streamlined digital customer interfaces that make it easy to do business with Dover companies; (ii) developin...”
- “Our Dover Digital Labs consists of a team of software developers, AI engineers and scientists, automation engineers, product security engineers, and product managers who provide digital capabilities to enhance the customer experience, develop connected industrial products and artificial intelligence-based models.”
- “These investments will allow us to take advantage of existing growth trends such as in cell and gene therapy applications, and data center cooling applications supporting investments in artificial intelligence.”
- “For example, Systech, part of the Imaging & Identification segment, and a market leader in serialization, traceability, and brand-protection solutions, launched the artAI solution in collaboration with Dover Digital which provided AI expertise. artAI is a cloud-based, AI-powered authentication tool that detects counterfeiting and supply-chain diversion.”
- “Using machine vision and machine learning, artAI creates a digital blueprint of packaging artwork for precise product identification, and its forensic analytics assist manufacturers in identifying trends and strengthen product security and brand-protection programs.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20212median 0
- Fiscal 20222median 0
- Fiscal 20233median 1
- Fiscal 20245median 4
- Fiscal 20259median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 24,000 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 24,000 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 25,000 | 2024-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 25,000 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 25,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 23,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 24,000 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 24,000 | 2019-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 29,000 | 2018-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 29,000 | 2017-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 26,000 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 27,000 | 2015-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 37,000 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 35,000 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 34,000 | 2012-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 32,000 | 2011-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 29,300 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 32,300 | 2009-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 33,400 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 33,000 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 31,650 | 2006-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 28,100 | 2005-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 25,700 | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 25,000 | 2003-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 26,600 | 2002-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 29,500 | 2001-03-13 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 26,600 | 2000-03-16 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 23,350 | 1999-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 28,800 | 1998-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 26,000 | 1997-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 25,300 | 1996-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 23,000 | 1995-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 20,500 | 1994-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Pattern shares rest on segment revenue (c), not stated headcounts.
- No U.S. share is stated.
- Shared services and corporate staff are described but not counted, so they stay inside the operating patterns (rule 6).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000029905-26-000009, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Dover Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 38% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Dover Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Dover Corporation employ?
- 24,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Dover Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Machinery Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 41% desk work, 16% people work and 43% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Dover Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 9 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 2, 3, 5 and 9 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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