Eastern Company (EML)

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Eastern Company'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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Eastern Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $204 million in fiscal 2017 to $249 million in fiscal 2026, up 2.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 22% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-03, Eastern Company's diluted share count shrank about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 29% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 43 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03, Eastern Company earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 26 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 42 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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Eastern Company's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $249 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 31% by size; a net margin of 2.9% ranks in the bottom 39%; revenue growth of -3.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 17% (its annual reports).

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Eastern Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.9 years (bottom 44%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (bottom 6%; 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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Eastern Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $7 million against debt of $34 million leaves -12.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2% of revenue (bottom 28%); a gross margin of 22.9% (bottom 7%); research spending of 1.6% of revenue (top 30%) (its annual report).

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Eastern Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -3.7% a year over the last three filed years against 2.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 28% of its family); the newest year grew -8.6% (bottom 6%); research spending grew -1.4% a year (top 36%); capital spending grew 5.6% a year (bottom 44%) (its annual reports). Eastern Company tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Eastern Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $249 million in fiscal 2026 came in 7.6% below the $270 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 6% of its family); net income of $7 million against a prior three-year average of $4 million (top 17%); a net margin of 2.9% against 1.5% before (top 17%) (its annual reports).