The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG)

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The Scotts Miracle-Gro 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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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 31% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's diluted share count grew about 1.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 31% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $50 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 113 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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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 41% by size; a net margin of 4.3% ranks in the top 41%; revenue growth of -4.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 41% (its annual reports).

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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Baxter, Nathan Eric (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-07-06, 4 months (bottom 7% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.9 years (top 50%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 36%; 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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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $37 million against debt of $2.1 billion leaves -75.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 5% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8% of revenue (top 41%); a gross margin of 30.6% (top 45%); research spending of 1% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.5% a year over the last three filed years against 3.5% over all 10, slowing (top 23% of its family); the newest year grew -3.9% (bottom 41%); research spending grew -8.4% a year (bottom 36%); capital spending grew -5% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Reportable Segment Aggregation Before Other at $3.2 billion (93%), All Other at $254 million (7%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1% above the $3.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $145 million against a prior three-year average of $284 million (top 5%); a net margin of 4.3% against -7.6% before (top 32%) (its annual reports).