<SEC-DOCUMENT>0000905148-26-000993.txt : 20260223
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000905148-26-000993
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		6
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20260218
FILED AS OF DATE:		20260223
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20260223

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Simmons William L.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0002110290
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-10235
		FILM NUMBER:		26667294

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		3100 SANDERS ROAD
		STREET 2:		SUITE 301
		CITY:			NORTHBROOK
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60062

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			IDEX CORP /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000832101
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PUMPS & PUMPING EQUIPMENT [3561]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	06 Technology
		EIN:				363555336
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		3100 SANDERS ROAD
		STREET 2:		SUITE 301
		CITY:			NORTHBROOK
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60062
		BUSINESS PHONE:		8474987070

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		3100 SANDERS ROAD
		STREET 2:		SUITE 301
		CITY:			NORTHBROOK
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60062
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            <securityTitle>
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        <footnote id="F1">Includes 1,699 restricted stock units (?RSUs?). Each RSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer?s common stock. These RSUs vest as follows, subject to the Reporting Person?s continuous service through each such date: (i) 987 RSUs vest on September 16, 2026, and (ii) 712 RSUs vest on February 20, 2028.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Represents 454 shares remaining from an original option grant of 1,815 shares, which option is fully vested.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Represents 870 shares remaining from an original option grant of 1,740 shares, which option vests in four substantially equal annual installments beginning February 24, 2023, subject to the Reporting Person?s continuous service through each such date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">This option vests in four substantially equal annual installments beginning February 23, 2024, subject to the Reporting Person?s continuous service through each such date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">This option vests in four substantially equal annual installments beginning February 22, 2025, subject to the Reporting Person?s continuous service through each such date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">This option vests in four substantially equal annual installments beginning February 20, 2026, subject to the Reporting Person?s continuous service through each such date.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
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                <div><font style="color: #424242;">prepare, execute in the undersigned&#x2019;s name and on the undersigned&#x2019;s </font><font style="color: #333333;">behalf, </font><font style="color: #424242;">and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
                    Commission (the &#x201c;SEC&#x201d;) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents </font><font style="color: #333333;">necessary </font><font style="color: #424242;">or appropriate </font><font style="color: #333333;">to </font><font style="color: #424242;">obtain codes and passwords enabling the </font><font style="color: #333333;">undersigned to </font><font style="color: #424242;">make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the
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                <div><font style="color: #424242;">serve as an Account Administrator for the undersigned&#x2019;s account in the SEC&#x2019;s enhanced Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, </font><font style="color: #333333;">and </font><font style="color: #424242;">Retrieval

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                <div><font style="color: #424242;">execute for and on </font><font style="color: #333333;">behalf </font><font style="color: #424242;">of the undersigned, in the undersigned&#x2019;s capacity as an officer and/or director of IDEX Corporation, a
                    Delaware corporation </font><font style="color: #333333;">(the </font><font style="color: #424242;">&#x201c;Company&#x201d;), Forms 3, 4, and 5, and Forms 144, each including amendments thereto, in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
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                <div><font style="color: #424242;">do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form </font><font style="color: #565656;">3, </font><font style="color: #424242;">4, or 5</font><font style="color: #6B6B6B;">, </font><font style="color: #424242;">or Form 144, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock
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                <div><font style="color: #424242;">take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
                    undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain </font><font style="color: #565656;">such </font><font style="color: #424242;">terms </font><font style="color: #333333;">and </font><font style="color: #424242;">conditions as </font><font style="color: #565656;">such </font><font style="color: #424242;">attorney-in-fact may approve in
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        <div style="text-indent: 45pt;"><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">The undersigned hereby </font><font style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86);">grants </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
            to do and perform any and every </font><font style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86);">act </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the </font><font style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86);">exercise

          </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation</font><font style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107);">, </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">hereby ratifying and confirming all that </font><font style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86);">such </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">attorney-in-fact, or
            such attorney-in-fact&#x2019;s </font><font style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86);">substitute </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers </font><font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">herein </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the </font><font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">undersigned, </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned&#x2019;s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Rule 144.</font></div>
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        <div style="text-indent: 45pt;"><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">This Power of Attorney </font><font style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86);">shall </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">remain in full force and effect until the earlier of it </font><font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">being </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">(a) revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered </font><font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">to </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">the
            foregoing attorneys-in-fact or (b) superseded by a new power of attorney regarding the purposes outlined herein at a </font><font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">later </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">date.</font></div>
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        <div style="text-indent: 45pt;"><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">In WITNESS WHEREOF</font><font style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107);">, </font><font style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed
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