Curtiss-Wright Corp. (CW)

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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'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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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.5 billion in fiscal 2021 to $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 8.8% a year; it rose in 4 of 4 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 53% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 31 sales (17 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $149 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Curtiss-Wright Corp. earned about 19 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 51 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 39% by size; a net margin of 13.8% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 11% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 19% (its annual reports).

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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bamford, Lynn J (Chair and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-01-04, 5.9 years (top 10% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.8 years (top 30%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 21%; 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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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $371 million against debt of $758 million leaves -7.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 29% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 15.8% of revenue (top 15%); a gross margin of 37.2% (top 25%); research spending of 2.7% of revenue (bottom 39%) (its annual report).

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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11% a year over the last three filed years against 8.8% over all 5, speeding up (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew 12.1% (top 17%); research spending grew 5.6% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 32.9% a year (top 6%) (its annual reports). Curtiss-Wright Corp. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $3.0 billion (85%), Service at $521 million (15%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.5% above the $3.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 36% of its family); net income of $484 million against a prior three-year average of $351 million (top 19%); a net margin of 13.8% against 12.3% before (top 21%) (its annual reports).