Corning Incorporated (GLW)

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Corning Incorporated'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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Corning Incorporated's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $9.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $16 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Corning Incorporated's diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 5% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 34 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Corning Incorporated earned about 13 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 18 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 60 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Corning Incorporated's standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 2% by size; a net margin of 10.2% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of 3.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

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Corning Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Weeks, Wendell P (Chairman, CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-01-03, 20.9 years (top 2% of its family); the 25 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.1 years (bottom 45%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 25 people in charge now (top 18%; 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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Corning Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.5 billion against debt of $7.6 billion leaves -19.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 17.2% of revenue (top 6%); a gross margin of 36% (top 7%); research spending of 5.1% of revenue (top 4%) (its annual report).

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Corning Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.3% a year over the last three filed years against 5.8% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew 19.2% (top 12%); research spending grew -3.8% a year (bottom 34%) (its annual reports). Corning Incorporated reported 7 product lines in fiscal 2025: Optical Communications at $6.3 billion (40%), Display Products at $3.0 billion (19%), Specialty Materials Products at $2.2 billion (14%), and 4 more; 7 of 7 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Corning Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 23.9% above the $13 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 25% of its family); net income of $1.6 billion against a prior three-year average of $801 million (top 17%); a net margin of 10.2% against 5.9% before (top 13%) (its annual reports).