Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (BBW)

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Build-A-Bear Workshop, 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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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $358 million in fiscal 2017 to $530 million in fiscal 2026, up 5% a year; it rose in 6 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 29% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 7 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 70% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales (10 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) 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 2026-01-31, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. earned about 34 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 86 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 55 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $530 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 47% by size; a net margin of 9.9% ranks in the top 8%; revenue growth of 4.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 25% (its annual reports).

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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 39%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 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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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $27 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 7.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 31% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.5% of revenue (top 8%); a gross margin of 55.8% (top 9%) (its annual report).

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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 4.2% a year over the last three filed years against 5% over all 9, slowing (top 34% of its family); the newest year grew 6.8% (top 41%); capital spending grew 23.2% a year (top 28%) (its annual reports). Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Direct to Consumer at $486 million (92%), Commercial at $39 million (7%), International Franchising at $5 million (1%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $530 million in fiscal 2026 came in 3.6% above the $511 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 43% of its family); net income of $52 million against a prior three-year average of $51 million (top 37%); a net margin of 9.9% against 10.5% before (top 37%) (its annual reports).