National Presto Industries, Inc. (NPK)

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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 4 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2019-08-20); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2020-10-29); a material cybersecurity incident (8-K item 1.05, the latest 2025-03-06); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2019-11-08) (its current reports).

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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $342 million in fiscal 2016 to $504 million in fiscal 2025, up 4.4% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 10% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, National Presto Industries, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 62% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales (1 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 2025-12-31, National Presto Industries, Inc. earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 21 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $504 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 36% by size; a net margin of 6.6% ranks in the top 27%; revenue growth of 16.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 10% (its annual reports).

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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 11.8 years (top 10%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (top 24%; 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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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $3 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 0.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -7.2% of revenue (bottom 20%); a gross margin of 16% (bottom 18%) (its annual report).

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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 16.1% a year over the last three filed years against 4.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 2% of its family); the newest year grew 29.7% (top 7%); capital spending grew 197.1% a year (top 2%) (its annual reports). National Presto Industries, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Defense at $406 million, Housewares Small Appliances at $96 million, Safety at $2 million. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 81% of revenue (its annual report).

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National Presto Industries, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $504 million in fiscal 2025 came in 18.1% above the $427 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 22% of its family); net income of $33 million against a prior three-year average of $32 million (top 46%); a net margin of 6.6% against 9.1% before (bottom 40%) (its annual reports).