Dine Brands Global, Inc. (DIN)

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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-08-04) (its current reports).

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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $732 million in fiscal 2017 to $879 million in fiscal 2025, up 2.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 24% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 2 fiscal years to 2025-12-28, Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 3.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 58% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 11 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-19, buying about $438 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28, Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 21 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 116 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 4.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $879 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of 1.9% ranks in the top 48%; revenue growth of 2.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Peyton, John W. (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-01-06, 5.9 years (top 32% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (top 43%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (bottom 37%; 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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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $128 million against debt of $1.2 billion leaves -61% of its assets as net cash, bottom 11% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.1% of revenue (top 35%); a gross margin of 40.9% (bottom 30%) (its annual report).

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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.9% a year over the last three filed years against 2.3% over all 10, speeding up (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 8.3% (top 37%); capital spending grew -2.2% a year (bottom 35%) (its annual reports). Dine Brands Global, Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Franchisor Royalties Franchise Fees and Other at $384 million (44%), Royalties at $308 million (35%), Food and Beverage at $105 million (12%), and 2 more; 1 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Dine Brands Global, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $879 million in fiscal 2025 came in 10.7% above the $794 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 1% of its family); net income of $17 million against a prior three-year average of $76 million (bottom 29%); a net margin of 1.9% against 9.2% before (bottom 24%) (its annual reports).