Newell Brands Inc. (NWL)

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Newell Brands Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2018-11-28); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2019-03-04) (its current reports).

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Newell Brands Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $9.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $7.2 billion in fiscal 2025, down 2.7% a year; it rose in 2 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 36% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Newell Brands Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 25% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-28 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Newell Brands Inc. lost about 12 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 23 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 78 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Newell Brands Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of -4% ranks in the bottom 6%; revenue growth of -8.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 17% (its annual reports).

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Newell Brands Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Peterson, Christopher H (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-05-18, 3.5 years (top 19% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.9 years (bottom 19%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 19%; 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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Newell Brands Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $203 million against debt of $4.5 billion leaves -40.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.2% of revenue (bottom 6%); a gross margin of 33.8% (top 44%); research spending of 1.6% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Newell Brands Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -8.7% a year over the last three filed years against -2.7% over all 10, slowing (top 28% of its family); the newest year grew -5% (bottom 28%); research spending grew -6.6% a year (bottom 10%); capital spending grew -7.5% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Newell Brands Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Home and Commercial at $3.8 billion (52%), Learning and Development at $2.7 billion (37%), Outdoor and Recreation at $741 million (10%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Newell Brands Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6.1% above the $6.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 28% of its family); net income of $285 million against a prior three-year average of $136 million (bottom 6%); a net margin of -4% against -1.8% before (bottom 6%) (its annual reports).