Company Analysis

Brunswick Corporation (BC)

NYSE: BC · Engines & Turbines · Mettawa, IL · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade4.5
◀ Past 5.7● Present 5.0▶ Future 2.7

The grade of Brunswick Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.5/10
◀ Past5.730% of the headline
● Present5.040% of the headline
▶ Future2.730% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 68 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Brunswick Corporation'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).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 8 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Brunswick Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 23% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span2.0%bottom 34% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 22% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 37% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak23.1%bottom 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.3/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 4.3% a year. 52% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 10 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 57 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Brunswick Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 4.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 52% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 10 sales (4 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 2% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -8%: lost 8¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 69%: owes 69¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 65 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Brunswick Corporation lost about 8 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 69 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 28% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 14% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 47% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 34% of 63 in its family; net margin -2.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 34th percentile among 63 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Brunswick Corporation's standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of -2.6% ranks in the bottom 20%; revenue growth of -7.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 7% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$5.36Btop 25% of its family
  • net margin-2.6%bottom 20% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-7.7%bottom 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
8.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 13% of 55 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 87th percentile among 55 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Brunswick Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Foulkes, David M (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-15, 7.7 years (top 27% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.3 years (top 10%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 1%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge1 in three years among 17 peopletop 1% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.3 yearstop 10% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.7 yearstop 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

2.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 31% of 63 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 31st percentile among 63 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Brunswick Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $257 million against debt of $2.1 billion leaves -35.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 7% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.4% of revenue (bottom 47%); a gross margin of 24.8% (bottom 15%); research spending of 3.1% of revenue (top 45%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-35.1%bottom 7% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue7.4%bottom 47% of its family
  • gross margin24.8%bottom 15% of its family
  • research spending against revenue3.1%top 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
1.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 18% of 64 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 18th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Brunswick Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -7.7% a year over the last three filed years against 2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 10% of its family); the newest year grew 2.4% (bottom 37%); research spending grew -6% a year (bottom 13%); capital spending grew -24.7% a year (bottom 12%) (its annual reports). Brunswick Corporation reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Propulsion at $1.9 billion (36%), Boat at $1.5 billion (28%), Engine Parts and Accessories at $1.2 billion (23%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-9.7 points a yearbottom 10% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth2.4%bottom 37% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-6.0%bottom 13% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-24.7%bottom 12% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.4/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 34% of 62 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 34th percentile among 62 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Brunswick Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 16.8% above the $4.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 22% of its family); net income of $137 million against a prior three-year average of $409 million (bottom 9%); a net margin of -2.6% against 6.3% before (bottom 14%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace16.8%top 22% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-134%bottom 9% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-8.9 pointsbottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BC · research, not advice