HF Foods Group Inc. (HFFG)

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HF Foods Group Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 18 warning events of 4 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 7 times, the latest 2023-01-20); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2023-01-20); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2021-09-10); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 8 times, the latest 2024-03-14) (its current reports).

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HF Foods Group Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $296 million in fiscal 2017 to $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 19.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 5 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, HF Foods Group Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 11 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $83 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, HF Foods Group Inc. lost about 19 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 62 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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HF Foods Group Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 49% by size; a net margin of -3.2% ranks in the bottom 19%; revenue growth of 1.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 41% (its annual reports).

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HF Foods Group Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lin, Xi (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-01-06, 1.9 years (bottom 43% of its family); the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 1.1 years (bottom 2%); 20 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (bottom 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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HF Foods Group Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $9 million against debt of $106 million leaves -18% of its assets as net cash, bottom 40% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.5% of revenue (bottom 39%); a gross margin of 16.9% (top 47%) (its annual report).

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HF Foods Group Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.6% a year over the last three filed years against 19.5% over all 9, slowing (bottom 13% of its family); the newest year grew 2.2% (top 44%); capital spending grew 44.4% a year (top 2%) (its annual reports). HF Foods Group Inc. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Seafood at $437 million (36%), Meat and Poultry at $271 million (22%), Asian Specialty at $226 million (18%), and 3 more; 3 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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HF Foods Group Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.9% above the $1.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 39% of its family); net income of $39 million against a prior three-year average of $17 million (bottom 33%); a net margin of -3.2% against -1.4% before (bottom 33%) (its annual reports).