La-Z-Boy Incorporated (LZB)

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La-Z-Boy Incorporated'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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La-Z-Boy Incorporated's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.6 billion in fiscal 2018 to $2.1 billion in fiscal 2026, up 3.8% a year; it rose in 5 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-04-25, La-Z-Boy Incorporated's diluted share count shrank about 1.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 52% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 10 sales (3 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-04-25, La-Z-Boy Incorporated earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 46 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 48 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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La-Z-Boy Incorporated's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 31% by size; a net margin of 4.8% ranks in the top 39%; revenue growth of -3.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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La-Z-Boy Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Whittington, Melinda D (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-06-21, 5.4 years (top 36% of its family); most of the 18 officers and directors filing now have filed since the record of its people begins (2022-09-09), a floor of 4.3 years the record cannot see past, so that part is not read; 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 8%; 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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La-Z-Boy Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $303 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 14.8% of its assets as net cash, top 17% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 44% (top 6%); research spending of 0.5% of revenue (bottom 30%) (its annual report).

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La-Z-Boy Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -3.3% a year over the last three filed years against 3.8% over all 9, slowing (bottom 39% of its family); the newest year grew 0.8% (top 50%); research spending grew 5.9% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 3.5% a year (top 17%) (its annual reports). La-Z-Boy Incorporated reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Upholstery at $1.5 billion, Wholesale at $1.5 billion, Retail at $898 million. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 38% of revenue (its annual report).

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La-Z-Boy Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 6.4% above the $2.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $102 million against a prior three-year average of $124 million (bottom 39%); a net margin of 4.8% against 5.7% before (top 50%) (its annual reports).