LKQ Corporation (LKQ)

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LKQ 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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LKQ Corporation's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $9.7 billion in fiscal 2017 to $14 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.3% a year; it rose in 5 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 7% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, LKQ Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 42% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $793 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, LKQ Corporation earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 35 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 57 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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LKQ Corporation's standing among 51 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $14 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of 4.5% ranks in the top 36%; revenue growth of 2.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 48% (its annual reports).

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LKQ Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Jude, Justin L (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-07-29, 2.3 years (bottom 37% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (top 50%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 15%; 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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LKQ Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $319 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.1% of its assets as net cash, top 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.2% of revenue (top 26%); a gross margin of 38.6% (top 10%) (its annual report).

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LKQ Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.2% a year over the last three filed years against 4.3% over all 9, slowing (top 49% of its family); the newest year grew -1.2% (bottom 29%); capital spending grew -0.9% a year (bottom 45%) (its annual reports). LKQ Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Europe at $6.3 billion (46%), North America at $5.7 billion (41%), Specialty at $1.7 billion (12%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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LKQ Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $14 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5% below the $14 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 24% of its family); net income of $608 million against a prior three-year average of $927 million (bottom 40%); a net margin of 4.5% against 7% before (bottom 38%) (its annual reports).