Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK)

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Autodesk, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 3 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2020-02-03); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-04-25); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-04-01) (its current reports).

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Autodesk, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $7.2 billion in fiscal 2026, up 15.1% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, Autodesk, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 57% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, Autodesk, Inc. earned about 37 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 53 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Autodesk, Inc.'s standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 15.6% ranks in the top 20%; revenue growth of 12.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 47% (its annual reports).

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Autodesk, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Anagnost, Andrew (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-02-24, 9.7 years (top 14% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 33%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (bottom 33%; 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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Autodesk, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $2.2 billion against debt of $2.5 billion leaves -2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 33.4% of revenue (top 10%); a gross margin of 91% (top 3%); research spending of 22.8% of revenue (top 42%) (its annual report).

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Autodesk, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 12.9% a year over the last three filed years against 15.1% over all 10, slowing (top 41% of its family); the newest year grew 17.5% (top 37%); research spending grew 10.5% a year (top 42%); capital spending grew 2.4% a year (top 47%) (its annual reports). Autodesk, Inc. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2026: Architecture Engineering Construction and Operation at $3.6 billion (50%), Auto CA Dand Auto CADLT Family at $1.8 billion (25%), Manufacturing at $1.4 billion (19%), and 3 more; 5 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Autodesk, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 6.2% above the $6.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 24% of its family); net income of $1.1 billion against a prior three-year average of $947 million (bottom 37%); a net margin of 15.6% against 17% before (bottom 24%) (its annual reports).