Company Analysis

Ducommun Incorporated (DCO)

NYSE: DCO · Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC · Costa Mesa, CA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.2
◀ Past 3.9● Present 5.0▶ Future 3.2

The grade of Ducommun Incorporated

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past3.930% of the headline
● Present5.040% of the headline
▶ Future3.230% of the headline

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

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2026-05-01.

weight 33% of this tense · 18th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2026-05-01) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
5.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4.6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $551 million in fiscal 2016 to $825 million in fiscal 2025, up 4.6% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.6%bottom 32% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 36% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 32% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak12.8%top 41% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 6.5% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 12 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 35th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Ducommun Incorporated's diluted share count grew about 6.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 12 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 35% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 35% of its family

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

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -6%: lost 6¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 44%: owes 44¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 65th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Ducommun Incorporated lost about 6 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 19 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 44 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 29% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 35% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 23% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 25% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 37% of 11 in its family; net margin -4.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 37th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $825 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 35% by size; a net margin of -4.5% ranks in the bottom 23%; revenue growth of 5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$825Mtop 35% of its family
  • net margin-4.5%bottom 23% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth5.0%bottom 23% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
4.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 42% of 7 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Oswald, Stephen G (Chairman, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-01-25, 9.8 years (top 21% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.9 years (bottom 8%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (bottom 40%; 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 charge4 in three years among 13 peoplebottom 40% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.9 yearsbottom 8% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record9.8 yearstop 21% 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?

3.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 41% of 11 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 41st percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $45 million against debt of $299 million leaves -21.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -5.9% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 26.9% (bottom 41%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-21.4%bottom 32% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-5.9%top 50% of its family
  • gross margin26.9%bottom 41% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
2.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 26% of 11 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 26th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5% a year over the last three filed years against 4.6% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 41% of its family); the newest year grew 4.9% (bottom 32%); capital spending grew -8.2% a year (bottom 5%) (its annual reports). Ducommun Incorporated reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Military and Space at $480 million (58%), Commercial Aerospace at $308 million (37%), Industrial at $37 million (4%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.4 points a yearbottom 41% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.9%bottom 32% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-8.2%bottom 5% 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
2.5/10

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

bottom 25% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 25th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Ducommun Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $825 million in fiscal 2025 came in 0.2% below the $826 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 45% of its family); net income of $37 million against a prior three-year average of $22 million (bottom 5%); a net margin of -4.5% against 3% before (bottom 15%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-0.2%top 45% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-269%bottom 5% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-7.5 pointsbottom 15% 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

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