Preformed Line Products Company (PLPC)

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Preformed Line Products Company'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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Preformed Line Products Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $337 million in fiscal 2016 to $669 million in fiscal 2025, up 7.9% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; 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, Preformed Line Products Company's diluted share count shrank about 0.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 6% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 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, Preformed Line Products Company earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 32 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 27 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Preformed Line Products Company's standing among 7 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $669 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 36% by size; a net margin of 5.3% ranks in the top 8%; revenue growth of 1.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 7% (its annual reports).

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Preformed Line Products Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mckenna, Dennis F (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-01-03, 2.9 years (top 50% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.5 years (top 25%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 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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Preformed Line Products Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $83 million against debt of $33 million leaves 7.7% of its assets as net cash, top 7% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5% of revenue (top 36%); a gross margin of 31.2% (top 10%) (its annual report).

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Preformed Line Products Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.7% a year over the last three filed years against 7.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 21% of its family); the newest year grew 12.7% (bottom 21%); research spending grew 22.9% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew -0.4% a year (bottom 21%) (its annual reports). Preformed Line Products Company reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Plp Usa at $313 million (47%), EMEA at $133 million (20%), Asia Pacific at $115 million (17%), and 1 more; 4 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Preformed Line Products Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $669 million in fiscal 2025 came in 16.8% above the $573 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 7% of its family); net income of $35 million against a prior three-year average of $52 million (bottom 25%); a net margin of 5.3% against 8.1% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).