Company Analysis

Knife River Corporation (KNF)

NYSE: KNF · Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) · Bismarck, ND · filing with the SEC since 2022
Grade6.2
◀ Past 6.9● Present 6.6▶ Future 4.6
1 est.

The grade of Knife River Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.2/10
◀ Past6.940% of the headline
● Present6.635% of the headline
▶ Future4.625% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.9/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2022.

weight 45% of this tense · 74th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Knife River Corporation's filings since 2022 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
7.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.

weight 33% of this tense · 78th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Knife River Corporation's 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.2 billion in fiscal 2021 to $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9% a year; it rose in 4 of 4 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.0%top 47% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 11% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 17% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 12% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.2% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 44th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Knife River Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.2% 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 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 28% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 17% 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?

6.6/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.2/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 55%: owes 55¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Knife River Corporation earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 55 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 28% of its family
  • return on equitytop 33% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 26% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 20% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
5.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 41% of 18 in its family; net margin 5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Knife River Corporation's standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of 5% ranks in the top 50%; revenue growth of 7.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 47% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.15Btop 21% of its family
  • net margin5.0%top 50% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.5%bottom 47% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
8.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 8.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 18% of 14 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-05-10 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.5 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2023-05-10 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.5 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 14 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Knife River Corporation's leadership is put at 8.2 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 18% of 14 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-05-10 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.5 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.6/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 33% of 19 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Knife River Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $123 million against debt of $1.2 billion leaves -28.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -2.2% of revenue (bottom 39%); a gross margin of 18.4% (bottom 32%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-28.2%bottom 28% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-2.2%bottom 39% of its family
  • gross margin18.4%bottom 32% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
4.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 46% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 46th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Knife River Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.5% a year over the last three filed years against 9% over all 5, slowing (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew 8.5% (top 50%); capital spending grew 25% a year (top 36%) (its annual reports). Knife River Corporation reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Contracting Services Public Sector at $1.1 billion (36%), Ready Mix Concrete at $779 million (25%), Asphalt at $421 million (13%), and 3 more; 5 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.5 points a yearbottom 25% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.5%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending25.0%top 36% 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
5.2/10

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

top 48% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Knife River Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.5% above the $3.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 47% of its family); net income of $157 million against a prior three-year average of $167 million (top 38%); a net margin of 5% against 6% before (bottom 47%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace1.5%bottom 47% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-6%top 38% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.0 pointsbottom 47% 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 KNF · research, not advice