Dauch Corporation (DCH)

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Dauch 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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Dauch Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.4% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 35% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Dauch Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 2% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $182 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Dauch Corporation lost about 3 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 11 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Dauch Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of -0.3% ranks in the bottom 33%; revenue growth of 0.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

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Dauch Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dauch, David C (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2012-09-05, 14.2 years (top 6% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.6 years (top 13%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 31%; 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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Dauch Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $709 million against debt of $4.1 billion leaves -50.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 5% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.7% of revenue (bottom 36%); a gross margin of 12.1% (bottom 30%); research spending of 2.5% of revenue (bottom 20%) (its annual report).

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Dauch Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.2% a year over the last three filed years against 4.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 31% of its family); the newest year grew -4.7% (bottom 19%); research spending grew 0.7% a year (bottom 45%); capital spending grew 14.4% a year (top 11%) (its annual reports). Dauch Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Driveline at $4.1 billion (70%), Metal Forming at $1.8 billion (31%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Dauch Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 7.2% below the $6.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 20% of its family); net income of $20 million against a prior three-year average of $22 million (bottom 17%); a net margin of -0.3% against 0.4% before (bottom 44%) (its annual reports).