Company Analysis

Hyster-Yale, Inc. (HY)

NYSE: HY · Industrial Trucks, Tractors, Trailors & Stackers · Cleveland, OH · filing with the SEC since 2002
Grade4.6
◀ Past 5.5● Present 4.7▶ Future 3.5

The grade of Hyster-Yale, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.6/10
◀ Past5.530% of the headline
● Present4.740% of the headline
▶ Future3.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 68 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Hyster-Yale, 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).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 7 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 54th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.6 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.3% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.3%top 48% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 27% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 33% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak14.6%top 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.5% a year. 22% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 30th percentile among 57 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 22% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 27% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -13%: lost 13¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 76%: owes 76¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 38th percentile among 65 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Hyster-Yale, Inc. lost about 13 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 31 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 18% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 9% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 26% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 49% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 40% of 63 in its family; net margin -1.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 63 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 44% by size; a net margin of -1.6% ranks in the bottom 21%; revenue growth of 2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 42% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.77Btop 44% of its family
  • net margin-1.6%bottom 21% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth2.0%bottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 22% of 55 in its family for leadership.

weight 22% of this tense · 78th percentile among 55 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 12.1 years (top 3%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 41%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge8 in three years among 22 peopletop 41% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed12.1 yearstop 3% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 34% of 63 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 34th percentile among 63 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $123 million against debt of $473 million leaves -17.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 41% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.6% of revenue (bottom 25%); a gross margin of 16.8% (bottom 6%); research spending of 3.6% of revenue (top 37%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-17.3%bottom 41% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.6%bottom 25% of its family
  • gross margin16.8%bottom 6% of its family
  • research spending against revenue3.6%top 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.2/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 48% of 64 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2% a year over the last three filed years against 4.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 37% of its family); the newest year grew -12.5% (bottom 4%); research spending grew 10.9% a year (top 23%); capital spending grew 29.5% a year (top 10%) (its annual reports). Hyster-Yale, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Americas HY at $2.8 billion (76%), EMEAHY at $570 million (15%), Bolzoni at $333 million (9%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-2.3 points a yearbottom 37% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-12.5%bottom 4% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending10.9%top 23% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending29.5%top 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
1.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 12% of 62 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 12th percentile among 62 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Hyster-Yale, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 20.6% below the $4.7 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 1% of its family); net income of $60 million against a prior three-year average of $65 million (bottom 6%); a net margin of -1.6% against 1.4% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-20.6%bottom 1% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-193%bottom 6% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.0 pointsbottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HY · research, not advice