Mattel, Inc. (MAT)

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Mattel, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 6 warning events of 3 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 4 times, the latest 2022-12-01); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2019-10-29); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-02-29) (its current reports).

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Mattel, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.3 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.2% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 17% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Mattel, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 3.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 53% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-23, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Mattel, Inc. earned about 18 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 39 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Mattel, Inc.'s standing among 6 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 7.4% ranks in the top 8%; revenue growth of -0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 25% (its annual reports).

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Mattel, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lynch, Roger (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-10-14, under a month (bottom 10% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (top 10%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (bottom 30%; 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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Mattel, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.2 billion against debt of $2.3 billion leaves -16.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11.1% of revenue (top 25%); a gross margin of 48.7% (top 50%); research spending of 4.3% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Mattel, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.5% a year over the last three filed years against -0.2% over all 10, slowing (top 25% of its family); the newest year grew -0.6% (top 42%); research spending grew 5.2% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew -12.6% a year (top 25%) (its annual reports). Mattel, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: North America at $3.0 billion, International at $2.3 billion. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 56% of revenue (its annual report).

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Mattel, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% below the $5.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $398 million against a prior three-year average of $383 million (top 8%); a net margin of 7.4% against 7.1% before (top 8%) (its annual reports).