Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (FELE)

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Franklin Electric Co., 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).

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Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $950 million in fiscal 2016 to $2.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 5% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 50% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $47 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Franklin Electric Co., Inc. earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 39 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 32 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 37% by size; a net margin of 6.9% ranks in the top 37%; revenue growth of 1.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 46% (its annual reports).

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Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Ruzynski, Joseph A. (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-07-08, 2.3 years (bottom 37% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.1 years (top 40%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 48%; 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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Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $100 million against debt of $135 million leaves -1.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.1% of revenue (top 32%); a gross margin of 35.5% (top 38%); research spending of 0.9% of revenue (bottom 4%) (its annual report).

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Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.4% a year over the last three filed years against 9.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew 5.4% (top 46%); research spending grew 6.2% a year (top 49%); capital spending grew 2.7% a year (bottom 44%) (its annual reports). Franklin Electric Co., Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Water Systems at $1.3 billion, Distribution at $701 million, Energy Systems at $299 million. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 56% of revenue (its annual report).

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Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6% above the $2.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 32% of its family); net income of $147 million against a prior three-year average of $187 million (bottom 32%); a net margin of 6.9% against 9.1% before (bottom 32%) (its annual reports).