Graco Inc (GGG)

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Graco 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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Graco Inc's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.3 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 4% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-26, Graco Inc's diluted share count shrank about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 55% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 7 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-28, buying about $100 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-26, Graco Inc earned about 20 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 36 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 19 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Graco Inc's standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 43% by size; a net margin of 23.3% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 1.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 37% (its annual reports).

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Graco Inc's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sheahan, Mark W (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-06-10, 5.4 years (bottom 45% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.6 years (top 47%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 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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Graco Inc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $624 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 19.1% of its assets as net cash, top 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 28.5% of revenue (top 2%); a gross margin of 52.5% (top 8%); research spending of 3.7% of revenue (top 35%) (its annual report).

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Graco Inc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.4% a year over the last three filed years against 6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 26% of its family); the newest year grew 5.9% (top 42%); research spending grew 0.9% a year (bottom 25%); capital spending grew -39.1% a year (bottom 6%) (its annual reports). Graco Inc reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Contractor at $1.1 billion, Industrial at $997 million, Process at $168 million. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 48% of revenue (its annual report).

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Graco Inc's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6.6% above the $2.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 46% of its family); net income of $522 million against a prior three-year average of $484 million (bottom 45%); a net margin of 23.3% against 22.5% before (top 44%) (its annual reports).