Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB)

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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s filings since 2018 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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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.8 billion in fiscal 2017 to $3.2 billion in fiscal 2026, up 1.4% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-03, Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 40% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03, Kontoor Brands, Inc. earned about 40 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 55 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 78 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s standing among 7 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.2 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 36% by size; a net margin of 7.2% ranks in the top 36%; revenue growth of 6.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 36% (its annual reports).

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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Baxter, Scott H (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-05-07, 7.5 years (top 36% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.6 years (top 50%); 13 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 21%; 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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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $108 million against debt of $1.1 billion leaves -39.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 7% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 13.8% of revenue (top 36%); a gross margin of 45.2% (bottom 7%) (its annual report).

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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 6.2% a year over the last three filed years against 1.4% over all 9, speeding up (top 21% of its family); the newest year grew 20.5% (top 7%); capital spending grew 4.6% a year (bottom 25%) (its annual reports). Kontoor Brands, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Wrangler at $1.9 billion, Lee at $750 million, Helly Hansen at $460 million. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 61% of revenue (its annual report).

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Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.2 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 21.4% above the $2.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 7% of its family); net income of $227 million against a prior three-year average of $241 million (top 50%); a net margin of 7.2% against 9.2% before (bottom 36%) (its annual reports).