Genesco Inc. (GCO)

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Genesco Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2025-05-15) (its current reports).

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Genesco Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.4 billion in fiscal 2026, up 2.1% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, Genesco Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 17% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $110 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, Genesco Inc. earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 81 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 59 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Genesco Inc.'s standing among 6 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 42% by size; a net margin of 0.5% ranks in the bottom 42%; revenue growth of 0.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 42% (its annual reports).

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Genesco Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Vaughn, Mimi Eckel (Board Chair, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-02-07, 6.8 years (top 10% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 30%); 12 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 30%; 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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Genesco Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $105 million against debt of $3 million leaves 7.3% of its assets as net cash, top 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.4% of revenue (top 42%); a gross margin of 46.3% (top 8%) (its annual report).

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Genesco Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 0.7% a year over the last three filed years against 2.1% over all 10, slowing (top 42% of its family); the newest year grew 4.8% (top 42%); capital spending grew 1.2% a year (top 42%) (its annual reports). Genesco Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Journeys Group at $1.5 billion (61%), Schuh Group at $500 million (21%), Johnston and Murphy Group at $320 million (13%), and 1 more; 2 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Genesco Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 6.1% above the $2.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 42% of its family); net income of $13 million against a prior three-year average of $12 million (top 42%); a net margin of 0.5% against 0.5% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).