Brady Corporation (BRC)

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Brady 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).

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Brady Corporation's 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.2 billion in fiscal 2019 to $1.7 billion in fiscal 2026, up 5.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 7% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 8 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-07-31, Brady Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 44% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 15 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-13, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-07-31, Brady Corporation earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 46 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 27 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Brady Corporation's standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 12.4% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 7.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 25% (its annual reports).

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Brady Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Nargolwala, Vineet A (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-06-09, 5 months (bottom 30% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.7 years (top 50%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (bottom 30%; 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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Brady Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $187 million against debt of $15 million leaves 9.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11.6% of revenue (top 25%); a gross margin of 51.7% (top 15%); research spending of 5.7% of revenue (top 42%) (its annual report).

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Brady Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 7.6% a year over the last three filed years against 5.3% over all 8, speeding up (top 15% of its family); the newest year grew 9.8% (top 45%); research spending grew 15.3% a year (top 36%); capital spending grew 38.8% a year (top 15%) (its annual reports). Brady Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Americas Asia at $1.1 billion (67%), Europe Australia at $555 million (33%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Brady Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3% above the $1.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 45% of its family); net income of $205 million against a prior three-year average of $187 million (top 45%); a net margin of 12.4% against 13.4% before (bottom 45%) (its annual reports).