Adient plc (ADNT)

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Adient plc'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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Adient plc's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $16 billion in fiscal 2017 to $15 billion in fiscal 2025, down 1.4% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 27% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 4 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Adient plc's diluted share count shrank about 4.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 28% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Adient plc lost about 14 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 11 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 77 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 7.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Adient plc's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 7% by size; a net margin of -1.9% ranks in the bottom 30%; revenue growth of 1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 39% (its annual reports).

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Adient plc's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dorlack, Jerome J. (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-01-03, 2.9 years (bottom 28% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.5 years (top 31%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 31%; 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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Adient plc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $958 million against debt of $2.4 billion leaves -15.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.4% of revenue (bottom 24%); a gross margin of 6.6% (bottom 19%); research spending of 2.7% of revenue (bottom 23%) (its annual report).

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Adient plc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1% a year over the last three filed years against -1.4% over all 9, speeding up (top 22% of its family); the newest year grew -1% (bottom 31%); research spending grew 6.3% a year (top 32%); capital spending grew 2.6% a year (top 27%) (its annual reports). Adient plc reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Americas at $6.9 billion, EMEA at $4.8 billion, Asia at $3.0 billion. 1 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 47% of revenue (its annual report).

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Adient plc's newest year against its own record: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3% below the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $281 million against a prior three-year average of $34 million (bottom 6%); a net margin of -1.9% against 0.2% before (bottom 35%) (its annual reports).