Quad/Graphics, Inc. (QUAD)

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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2022-03-02) (its current reports).

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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.3 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025, down 6.3% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 44% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 12% 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, Quad/Graphics, Inc. earned about 21 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 42 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 29% by size; a net margin of 1.1% ranks in the bottom 26%; revenue growth of -9.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 12% (its annual reports).

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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Quadracci, J Joel (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2010-07-01, 16.4 years (top 17% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10 years (top 18%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 3%; 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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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $63 million against debt of $370 million leaves -24.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.1% of revenue (bottom 21%); a gross margin of 21.6% (bottom 10%); research spending of 0.1% of revenue (bottom 7%) (its annual report).

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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -9.1% a year over the last three filed years against -6.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 43% of its family); the newest year grew -9.4% (bottom 7%); research spending grew -4.2% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew -9.2% a year (bottom 23%) (its annual reports). Quad/Graphics, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: United States Print and Related Services at $2.2 billion (92%), International at $206 million (9%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Quad/Graphics, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.6% below the $2.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 23% of its family); net income of $27 million against a prior three-year average of $32 million (top 27%); a net margin of 1.1% against -1.2% before (top 37%) (its annual reports).