Orion S.A. (OEC)

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Orion S.A.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2021-02-19) (its current reports).

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Orion S.A.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.3% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 28% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Orion S.A.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 19% 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 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Orion S.A. lost about 18 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 19 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 80 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Orion S.A.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 31% by size; a net margin of -3.9% ranks in the bottom 39%; revenue growth of -3.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 31% (its annual reports).

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Orion S.A.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Painter, Corning F. (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-01-09, 6.8 years (top 44% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.8 years (top 36%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (top 21%; 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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Orion S.A.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $61 million against debt of $675 million leaves -32.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3% of revenue (bottom 44%); a gross margin of 19.9% (bottom 19%); research spending of 1.5% of revenue (bottom 31%) (its annual report).

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Orion S.A.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.8% a year over the last three filed years against 5.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 31% of its family); the newest year grew -3.8% (bottom 28%); research spending grew 8.2% a year (bottom 39%); capital spending grew -11.6% a year (bottom 28%) (its annual reports). Orion S.A. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Rubber at $1.2 billion, Specialties at $619 million. 0 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 66% of revenue (its annual report).

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Orion S.A.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% above the $1.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 21% of its family); net income of $70 million against a prior three-year average of $85 million (bottom 31%); a net margin of -3.9% against 4.3% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).