Ribbon Communications Inc. (RBBN)

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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2024-05-13) (its current reports).

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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $578 million in fiscal 2018 to $845 million in fiscal 2025, up 5.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 2 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Ribbon Communications Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 4.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 8% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $171 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Ribbon Communications Inc. earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 35 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 63 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 3.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s standing among 40 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $845 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 35% by size; a net margin of 4.7% ranks in the top 29%; revenue growth of 1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mcclelland, Bruce William (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-03-04, 6.7 years (top 39% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.4 years (top 42%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 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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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $96 million against debt of $325 million leaves -18.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 18% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.1% of revenue (top 45%); a gross margin of 49.8% (top 32%); research spending of 21.2% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1% a year over the last three filed years against 5.6% over all 8, slowing (bottom 36% of its family); the newest year grew 1.3% (bottom 31%); research spending grew -4.2% a year (bottom 23%); capital spending grew 35.2% a year (top 10%) (its annual reports). Ribbon Communications Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $435 million (52%), Service Revenue Maintenance at $271 million (32%), Service Revenue Professional Services at $139 million (17%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Ribbon Communications Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $845 million in fiscal 2025 came in 0.4% above the $841 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 48% of its family); net income of $40 million against a prior three-year average of $73 million (top 11%); a net margin of 4.7% against -8.8% before (top 33%) (its annual reports).