People Incorporated (PPLI)

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People Incorporated's filings since 2020 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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People Incorporated's 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.5 billion in fiscal 2018 to $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.8% a year; it rose in 3 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 54% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, People Incorporated's diluted share count shrank about 2.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-02 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, People Incorporated lost about 2 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 33 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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People Incorporated's standing among 73 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 24% by size; a net margin of -4.2% ranks in the bottom 49%; revenue growth of -23% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

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People Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Vogel, Neil (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-08-17, 3 months (bottom 5% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.4 years (top 29%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 46%; 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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People Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $960 million against debt of $1.4 billion leaves -6.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 31% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.9% of revenue (bottom 41%); a gross margin of 66.2% (top 42%); research spending of 8.2% of revenue (bottom 25%) (its annual report).

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People Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -23% a year over the last three filed years against -0.8% over all 8, slowing (bottom 14% of its family); the newest year grew -8.7% (bottom 12%); research spending grew -14.9% a year (bottom 16%); capital spending grew -48.4% a year (bottom 7%) (its annual reports). People Incorporated reported 6 lines of business in fiscal 2025: People Inc. at $1.8 billion, Digital at $1.1 billion, Print at $685 million, and 3 more. 1 of 6 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 42% of revenue (its annual report).

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People Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 28.9% above the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 19% of its family); net income of $101 million against a prior three-year average of $489 million (top 35%); a net margin of -4.2% against -11.4% before (top 47%) (its annual reports).