Exponent, Inc. (EXPO)

From the record

Exponent, 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).

From the record

Exponent, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $315 million in fiscal 2016 to $582 million in fiscal 2026, up 7.1% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 4% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-02, Exponent, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 75% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 23 sales (16 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $13 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-02, Exponent, Inc. earned about 27 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 50 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

From the record

Exponent, Inc.'s standing among 33 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $582 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 28% by size; a net margin of 18.2% ranks in the top 8%; revenue growth of 4.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 47% (its annual reports).

From the record

Exponent, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Corrigan, Catherine (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-19, 7.7 years (top 44% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.3 years (top 32%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 12%; 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.

From the record

Exponent, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $222 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 28.5% of its assets as net cash, top 35% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 21% of revenue (top 2%) (its annual report).

From the record

Exponent, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 4.3% a year over the last three filed years against 7.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew 4.2% (top 42%); capital spending grew -7.9% a year (bottom 30%) (its annual reports). Exponent, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Engineering and Other Scientific at $494 million, Environmental and Health at $88 million. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 85% of revenue (its annual report).

From the record

Exponent, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $582 million in fiscal 2026 came in 0.1% below the $582 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 44% of its family); net income of $106 million against a prior three-year average of $104 million (bottom 46%); a net margin of 18.2% against 19.4% before (bottom 33%) (its annual reports).