BlackBerry Limited (BB)

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BlackBerry Limited's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2020-09-02); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2020-04-27) (its current reports).

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BlackBerry Limited's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.3 billion in fiscal 2017 to $549 million in fiscal 2026, down 9.2% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 60% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-02-28, BlackBerry Limited's diluted share count shrank about 2.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 96% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 45 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-05, buying about $41 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-02-28, BlackBerry Limited earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 34 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 40 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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BlackBerry Limited's standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $549 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 47% by size; a net margin of 9.7% ranks in the top 27%; revenue growth of 1.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 22% (its annual reports).

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BlackBerry Limited's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Giamatteo, John Joseph (CEO & President, Secure Comm., as filed), filing under that title since 2024-01-04, 2.9 years (bottom 39% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.8 years (bottom 7%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 23%; 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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BlackBerry Limited's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $275 million against debt of $197 million leaves 6.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 36% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.5% of revenue (bottom 41%); a gross margin of 76.2% (top 33%); research spending of 20.7% of revenue (bottom 49%) (its annual report).

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BlackBerry Limited's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 1.4% a year over the last three filed years against -9.2% over all 10, speeding up (top 3% of its family); the newest year grew 2.7% (bottom 24%); research spending grew -5.4% a year (bottom 21%); capital spending grew -19.6% a year (bottom 28%) (its annual reports). BlackBerry Limited reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2026: QNX at $268 million (49%), Secure Communications at $259 million (47%), Licensing at $22 million (4%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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BlackBerry Limited's newest year against its own record: revenue of $549 million in fiscal 2026 came in 1.8% above the $539 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 38% of its family); net income of $53 million against a prior three-year average of $315 million (top 19%); a net margin of 9.7% against -57.2% before (top 10%) (its annual reports).