Kronos Worldwide, Inc. (KRO)

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 3 warning events: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 3 times, the latest 2021-04-26) (its current reports).

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 14% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $99 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Kronos Worldwide, Inc. lost about 15 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 12 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 59 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of -6% ranks in the bottom 28%; revenue growth of -1.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 28% (its annual reports).

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Christian, Brian W. (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-05-14, 6 months (bottom 7% of its family); the 10 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 11.6 years (top 17%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 10 people in charge now (top 27%; 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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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $33 million against debt of $557 million leaves -28.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -2.2% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 11.5% (bottom 19%); research spending of 0.9% of revenue (top 31%) (its annual report).

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1.2% a year over the last three filed years against 3.5% over all 10, slowing (top 28% of its family); the newest year grew -1.5% (bottom 39%); research spending grew 2.2% a year (top 44%); capital spending grew -12.1% a year (bottom 5%) (its annual reports). Kronos Worldwide, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.3% below the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 17% of its family); net income of $111 million against a prior three-year average of $47 million (bottom 15%); a net margin of -6% against 2.3% before (bottom 39%) (its annual reports).