Kennametal Inc. (KMT)

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Kennametal 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).

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Kennametal Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.1 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.4 billion in fiscal 2026, up 1.5% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 22% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-06-30, Kennametal Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 67% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $567 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-06-30, Kennametal Inc. earned about 21 cents of profit 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 49 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Kennametal Inc.'s standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 46% by size; a net margin of 14.5% ranks in the top 18%; revenue growth of 4.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 40% (its annual reports).

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Kennametal Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Chowbey, Sanjay (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-06-11, 2.4 years (bottom 23% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.2 years (top 18%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (bottom 32%; 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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Kennametal Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $96 million against debt of $685 million leaves -18.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -3.4% of revenue (bottom 13%); a gross margin of 41.2% (top 28%); research spending of 1.8% of revenue (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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Kennametal Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 4.3% a year over the last three filed years against 1.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 34% of its family); the newest year grew 19.8% (top 18%); research spending grew 0.1% a year (bottom 23%); capital spending grew -6.6% a year (bottom 34%) (its annual reports). Kennametal Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Metal Cutting at $1.4 billion (59%), Infrastructure at $959 million (41%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Kennametal Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 23.2% above the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 14% of its family); net income of $342 million against a prior three-year average of $107 million (top 10%); a net margin of 14.5% against 5.3% before (top 9%) (its annual reports).