Acco Brands Corporation (ACCO)

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Acco Brands Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Acco Brands Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.6 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.5 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.2% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 25% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Acco Brands Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 33% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Acco Brands Corporation earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 71 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Acco Brands Corporation's standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of 2.7% ranks in the bottom 40%; revenue growth of -7.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 21% (its annual reports).

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Acco Brands Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Tedford, Thomas W (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-10-03, 3.1 years (bottom 37% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.7 years (top 39%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 47%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Acco Brands Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $64 million against debt of $806 million leaves -32.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 30% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.5% of revenue (bottom 36%); a gross margin of 32.8% (bottom 37%); research spending of 1.4% of revenue (bottom 36%) (its annual report).

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Acco Brands Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -7.8% a year over the last three filed years against -0.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 13% of its family); the newest year grew -8.5% (bottom 12%); research spending grew -5.8% a year (bottom 36%); capital spending grew -18.6% a year (bottom 13%) (its annual reports). Acco Brands Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Acco Brands Americas at $894 million (59%), Acco Brands International at $630 million (41%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Acco Brands Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.1% below the $1.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 18% of its family); net income of $41 million against a prior three-year average of $46 million (top 22%); a net margin of 2.7% against -2.7% before (top 17%) (its annual reports).