Methode Electronics (MEI)

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Methode Electronics' 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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Methode Electronics' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $817 million in fiscal 2017 to $1.0 billion in fiscal 2026, up 2.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 14% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-05-02, Methode Electronics' diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 57% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-05-02, Methode Electronics lost about 5 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 15 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 grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Methode Electronics' standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.0 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 46% by size; a net margin of -3.5% ranks in the bottom 37%; revenue growth of -4.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 27% (its annual reports).

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Methode Electronics' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Degaynor, Jonathan B (CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-07-15, 2.3 years (bottom 34% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (bottom 40%); 16 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (bottom 5%; 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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Methode Electronics' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $140 million against debt of $325 million leaves -14.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 26% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.5% of revenue (bottom 37%); a gross margin of 19.8% (bottom 28%); research spending of 3.7% of revenue (bottom 43%) (its annual report).

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Methode Electronics' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -4.7% a year over the last three filed years against 2.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 32% of its family); the newest year grew -2.8% (bottom 27%); research spending grew 2.3% a year (bottom 38%); capital spending grew -18.9% a year (bottom 24%) (its annual reports). Methode Electronics reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Industrial at $524 million (51%), Automotive at $468 million (46%), Interface at $27 million (3%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Methode Electronics' newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.0 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3.1% above the $988 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 39% of its family); net income of $36 million against a prior three-year average of $36 million (bottom 42%); a net margin of -3.5% against -3.5% before (bottom 42%) (its annual reports).