Designer Brands Inc. (DBI)

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Designer Brands Inc.'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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Designer Brands Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.7 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026, up 0.7% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 36% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, Designer Brands Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 12.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 57% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, Designer Brands Inc. lost about 2 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 65 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 85 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 8.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Designer Brands Inc.'s standing among 6 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of -0.2% ranks in the bottom 25%; revenue growth of -4.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 25% (its annual reports).

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Designer Brands Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Howe, Douglas M. (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-04-18, 3.6 years (top 30% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.7 years (top 30%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 10%; 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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Designer Brands Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $51 million against debt of $428 million leaves -19.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.7% of revenue (bottom 42%); a gross margin of 43.6% (top 25%) (its annual report).

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Designer Brands Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -4.4% a year over the last three filed years against 0.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew -3.9% (bottom 25%); capital spending grew -16.8% a year (bottom 25%) (its annual reports). Designer Brands Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Retail at $2.7 billion (92%), Brand Portfolio at $236 million (8%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Designer Brands Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 0.9% above the $2.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 25% of its family); net income of $6 million against a prior three-year average of $61 million (bottom 8%); a net margin of -0.2% against 1.8% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).