Clearwater Paper Corporation (CLW)

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Clearwater Paper 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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Clearwater Paper Corporation's 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.7 billion in fiscal 2018 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, down 1.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 39% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 4 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Clearwater Paper Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 17% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale (1 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Clearwater Paper Corporation lost about 2 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 7 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 48 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Clearwater Paper Corporation's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 31% by size; a net margin of -1.2% ranks in the top 50%; revenue growth of 9.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 13% (its annual reports).

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Clearwater Paper Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kitch, Arsen S. (President, CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-04-03, 6.6 years (top 35% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.5 years (top 29%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 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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Clearwater Paper Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $31 million against debt of $346 million leaves -19.8% of its assets as net cash, top 18% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -4.9% of revenue (bottom 13%); a gross margin of 7.4% (bottom 9%) (its annual report).

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Clearwater Paper Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.2% a year over the last three filed years against -1.5% over all 8, speeding up (top 3% of its family); the newest year grew 12.4% (top 24%); capital spending grew 38.4% a year (top 3%) (its annual reports). Clearwater Paper Corporation reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Foodservice at $665 million (43%), Folding Carton at $579 million (37%), Other at $162 million (10%), and 1 more; 2 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Clearwater Paper Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.5% above the $1.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 47% of its family); net income of $19 million against a prior three-year average of $117 million (bottom 25%); a net margin of -1.2% against 9.2% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).