Gentex Corporation (GNTX)

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Gentex Corporation'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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Gentex Corporation's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.8 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Gentex Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 62% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 13 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Gentex Corporation earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 15 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Gentex Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 46% by size; a net margin of 15.2% ranks in the top 7%; revenue growth of 9.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 16% (its annual reports).

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Gentex Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Downing, Steven R (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-07-03, 8.4 years (top 31% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.7 years (top 20%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 2%; 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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Gentex Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $146 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 5% of its assets as net cash, top 29% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 18.1% of revenue (top 10%); a gross margin of 34.2% (top 16%); research spending of 8% of revenue (top 34%) (its annual report).

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Gentex Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.7% a year over the last three filed years against 4.4% over all 9, speeding up (top 10% of its family); the newest year grew 9.6% (top 28%); research spending grew 15.1% a year (top 15%); capital spending grew -4.1% a year (top 45%) (its annual reports). Gentex Corporation reported 10 product lines in fiscal 2025: Automotive Mirrors Electronics at $2.1 billion (84%), Home Link Modules at $120 million (5%), Premium Speaker Products at $107 million (4%), and 7 more; 2 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Gentex Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.2% below the $2.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 41% of its family); net income of $385 million against a prior three-year average of $384 million (top 38%); a net margin of 15.2% against 17.6% before (bottom 32%) (its annual reports).