Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. (ARTW)

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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'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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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $36 million in fiscal 2012 to $23 million in fiscal 2025, down 3.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 46% from fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-11-30, Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 2.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 6% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 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 2025-11-30, Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 28 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 41 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $23 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 2% by size; a net margin of 4.5% ranks in the bottom 36%; revenue growth of -3.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mcconnell, Marc H (President, CEO and Chairman, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-01-28, 1.8 years (bottom 21% of its family); the 6 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.2 years (top 8%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 6 people in charge now (top 11%; 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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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $5 thousand against debt of $2 million leaves -11.1% of its assets as net cash, top 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -6.7% of revenue (bottom 10%); a gross margin of 27.3% (bottom 26%); research spending of 1% of revenue (bottom 8%) (its annual report).

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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.6% a year over the last three filed years against -3.5% over all 10, slowing (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew -6.2% (bottom 12%); research spending grew 5.7% a year (top 49%); capital spending grew -27.8% a year (bottom 10%) (its annual reports). Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Agricultural Products at $13 million, Modular Buildings at $10 million. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 55% of revenue (its annual report).

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Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $23 million in fiscal 2025 came in 4.1% below the $24 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 22% of its family); net income of $1 million against a prior three-year average of $224 thousand (top 7%); a net margin of 4.5% against 0.8% before (top 19%) (its annual reports).