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Smith Douglas Homes Corp. (SDHC)

NYSE: SDHC · Operative Builders · Woodstock, GA · filing with the SEC since 2023
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Grade5.7
◀ Past 5.3● Present 6.2▶ Future 5.5
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The grade of Smith Douglas Homes Corp.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.7/10
◀ Past5.340% of the headline
● Present6.235% of the headline
▶ Future5.525% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 7 read as filed from the record and 2 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2023.

weight 33% of this tense · 78th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s filings since 2023 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).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+12.7% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 3 of 3.

weight 45% of this tense · 55th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $765 million in fiscal 2023 to $971 million in fiscal 2025, up 12.7% a year; it rose in 1 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 0% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 3 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span12.7%top 26% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 3% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 41% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.4%top 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
1.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.7% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 10 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 10th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the fiscal year to 2025-12-31, Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s diluted share count grew about 1.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 10 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05, buying about $796 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 14% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.2/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 20%: owes 20¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 66th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Smith Douglas Homes Corp. earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 20 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 3% of its family
  • return on equitytop 36% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 6% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 48% of 17 in its family; net margin 7%.

weight 45% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s standing among 17 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $971 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 3% by size; a net margin of 7% ranks in the top 38%; revenue growth of 12.7% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the top 9% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$971Mbottom 3% of its family
  • net margin7.0%top 38% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth12.7%top 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
7.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 7.8/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 78th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 22% of 16 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2024-01-11 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.8 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2024-01-11 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.8 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 16 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s leadership is put at 7.8 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 22% of 16 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2024-01-11 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.8 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.5/1025% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
3.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 37% of 15 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 37th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $13 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 41% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -3.8% of revenue (bottom 21%); a gross margin of 21.8% (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.3%bottom 41% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-3.8%bottom 21% of its family
  • gross margin21.8%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
8.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 15% of 17 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 85th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 12.7% a year over the last three filed years against 12.7% over all 3, speeding up (top 9% of its family); the newest year grew -0.4% (top 26%); capital spending grew 105.4% a year (top 9%) (its annual reports). Smith Douglas Homes Corp. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 9% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-0.4%top 26% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending105.4%top 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
4.3/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 4.3/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 16 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 16 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Smith Douglas Homes Corp.'s expectations vs reality is put at 4.3 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 16 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SDHC · research, not advice