Universal Display Corporation (OLED)

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Universal Display Corporation's 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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Universal Display Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $199 million in fiscal 2016 to $651 million in fiscal 2025, up 14.1% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018; 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, Universal Display Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 42% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 7 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-09, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Universal Display Corporation earned about 14 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 10 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

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Universal Display Corporation's standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $651 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 40% by size; a net margin of 37.2% ranks in the top 4%; revenue growth of 1.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 42% (its annual reports).

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Universal Display Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Abramson, Steven V (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2008-01-11, 18.8 years (top 2% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.4 years (top 2%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 6%; 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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Universal Display Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $138 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 7% of its assets as net cash, top 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.7% of revenue (top 1%); a gross margin of 76.3% (top 1%); research spending of 22.5% of revenue (top 10%) (its annual report).

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Universal Display Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.8% a year over the last three filed years against 14.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 18% of its family); the newest year grew 0.5% (bottom 42%); research spending grew 7.7% a year (top 43%); capital spending grew 9.9% a year (top 36%) (its annual reports). Universal Display Corporation reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Material Sales at $353 million (54%), Royalty and License Fees at $275 million (42%), Contract Research Services at $23 million (4%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Universal Display Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $651 million in fiscal 2025 came in 2% below the $664 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 39% of its family); net income of $242 million against a prior three-year average of $212 million (top 49%); a net margin of 37.2% against 34.5% before (top 44%) (its annual reports).