H.B. Fuller Company (FUL)

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H.B. Fuller Company's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2020-01-27) (its current reports).

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H.B. Fuller Company's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.3 billion in fiscal 2017 to $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.3% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2018 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 2025-11-29, H.B. Fuller Company's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 26% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 13 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-11-29, H.B. Fuller Company earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 21 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 61 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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H.B. Fuller Company's standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of 4.4% ranks in the bottom 37%; revenue growth of -2.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

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H.B. Fuller Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mastin, Celeste Beeks (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-01-26, 3.8 years (bottom 46% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (top 46%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 42%; 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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H.B. Fuller Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $107 million against debt of $2.0 billion leaves -36.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 17% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.5% of revenue (bottom 23%); a gross margin of 31.1% (bottom 23%) (its annual report).

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H.B. Fuller Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -2.5% a year over the last three filed years against 5.3% over all 9, slowing (bottom 17% of its family); the newest year grew -2.7% (bottom 23%); research spending grew 0.8% a year (bottom 32%); capital spending grew 3.1% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). H.B. Fuller Company reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Hygiene Health and Consumable Adhesives at $1.6 billion, Engineering Adhesives at $1.1 billion, Construction Adhesives at $860 million, and 1 more. 4 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 36% of revenue (its annual report).

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H.B. Fuller Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.2% below the $3.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 46% of its family); net income of $152 million against a prior three-year average of $152 million (bottom 32%); a net margin of 4.4% against 4.2% before (bottom 39%) (its annual reports).