Company Analysis

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated (BSET)

Nasdaq: BSET · Wood Household Furniture, (No Upholstered) · Bassett, VA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.8
◀ Past 2.8● Present 5.6▶ Future 5.7
1 est.

The grade of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.8/10
◀ Past2.830% of the headline
● Present5.640% of the headline
▶ Future5.730% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

2.8/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed
0.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-04-11.

weight 33% of this tense · 8th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-04-11); a material cybersecurity incident (8-K item 1.05, 2 times, the latest 2024-08-06) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
1.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-3.7% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 5 of 9.

weight 45% of this tense · 19th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $453 million in fiscal 2017 to $335 million in fiscal 2025, down 3.7% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 32% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 5 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-3.7%bottom 8% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 50% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 8% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak32.1%bottom 8% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate
7.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 7.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, the cash returned against operating cash flow, which ranks in the top 25% of 6 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
How it was reasoned
one part: cash returned against operating cash flow, the one part on file, ranked among 6 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's shareholder treatment is put at 7.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the cash returned against operating cash flow, which ranks in the top 25% of 6 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 4%: 4¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 49%: owes 49¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 69th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-11-29, Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated earned about 4 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 58 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 49 cents per dollar of assets (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 42% of its family
  • return on equitytop 42% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 8% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
2.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 25% of 6 in its family; net margin 1.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's standing among 6 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $335 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 25% by size; a net margin of 1.8% ranks in the bottom 42%; revenue growth of -11.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 8% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$335Mbottom 25% of its family
  • net margin1.8%bottom 42% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-11.6%bottom 8% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
7.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 23% of 5 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2007.

weight 22% of this tense · 77th percentile among 5 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Spilman, Robert H Jr (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2007-10-18, 19.1 years (top 50% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 15.9 years (top 10%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 8%; 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 charge3 in three years among 14 peopletop 8% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed15.9 yearstop 10% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record19.1 yearstop 50% 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?

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

Room to expand

as filed
6.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 31% of 6 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 69th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $41 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 12.7% of its assets as net cash, top 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.7% of revenue (bottom 42%); a gross margin of 56.3% (top 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets12.7%top 8% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue2.7%bottom 42% of its family
  • gross margin56.3%top 25% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
3.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 31% of 6 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 31st percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -11.6% a year over the last three filed years against -3.7% over all 9, slowing (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew 1.6% (top 42%); capital spending grew -40.2% a year (bottom 8%) (its annual reports). Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Retail at $217 million (65%), Wholesale at $119 million (35%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-7.9 points a yearbottom 25% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.6%top 42% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-40.2%bottom 8% 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
6.9/10

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

top 31% of 6 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 69th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $335 million in fiscal 2025 came in 23.1% above the $272 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 8% of its family); net income of $6 million against a prior three-year average of $17 million (bottom 42%); a net margin of 1.8% against 3.2% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace23.1%top 8% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-65%bottom 42% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.4 pointstop 25% 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 BSET · research, not advice