Knowles Corporation (KN)

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Knowles 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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Knowles Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $756 million in fiscal 2016 to $593 million in fiscal 2025, down 2.7% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 47% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Knowles Corporation earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 24 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 26 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Knowles Corporation's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $593 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of 7.5% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of 7.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 17% (its annual reports).

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Knowles Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Niew, Jeffrey (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2014-02-10, 12.8 years (top 25% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.7 years (top 25%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 30%; 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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Knowles Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $54 million against debt of $114 million leaves -5.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 6% of its family; a gross margin of 43.2% (top 28%); research spending of 6.8% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Knowles Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.4% a year over the last three filed years against -2.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 7.2% (top 39%); research spending grew 11.1% a year (top 7%); capital spending grew 0% a year (top 31%) (its annual reports). Knowles Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Precision Devices at $329 million, Med Tech Specialty Audio at $264 million. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 55% of revenue (its annual report).

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Knowles Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $593 million in fiscal 2025 came in 0.3% below the $595 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 28% of its family); net income of $44 million against a prior three-year average of $199 million (top 6%); a net margin of 7.5% against -39% before (top 17%) (its annual reports).