Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU)

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Kaiser Aluminum 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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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2017 to $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 11.6% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's diluted share count grew about 1.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 31% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 10 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Kaiser Aluminum Corporation earned about 14 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 17 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 68 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 29% by size; a net margin of 3.3% ranks in the top 35%; revenue growth of -0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 41% (its annual reports).

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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Stephan, Louis Fred (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-11-03, under a month (bottom 2% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.4 years (bottom 17%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 26%; 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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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $7 million against debt of $1.1 billion leaves -41% of its assets as net cash, bottom 2% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -0.8% of revenue (bottom 24%); a gross margin of 13.1% (bottom 37%); research spending of 0.3% of revenue (bottom 13%) (its annual report).

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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.5% a year over the last three filed years against 11.6% over all 9, slowing (bottom 13% of its family); the newest year grew 11.5% (top 30%); research spending grew 4.8% a year (top 28%); capital spending grew -1.3% a year (bottom 34%) (its annual reports). Kaiser Aluminum Corporation reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Packaging at $1.5 billion (44%), Aero Hs Products at $838 million (25%), Ge Products at $759 million (23%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 18.8% above the $2.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 37% of its family); net income of $113 million against a prior three-year average of $35 million (top 13%); a net margin of 3.3% against 1.2% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).