Standard Motor Products (SMP)

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Standard Motor Products' 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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Standard Motor Products' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Standard Motor Products' diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 32% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Standard Motor Products earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 28 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Standard Motor Products' standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 49% by size; a net margin of 2.3% ranks in the top 44%; revenue growth of 9.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 21% (its annual reports).

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Standard Motor Products' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sills, Eric (CEO & President, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-10-11, 10.1 years (top 24% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.1 years (top 2%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 23%; 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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Standard Motor Products' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is 1% of revenue (bottom 21%); a gross margin of 31.2% (top 19%) (its annual report).

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Standard Motor Products' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.3% a year over the last three filed years against 6% over all 10, speeding up (top 16% of its family); the newest year grew 22.4% (top 16%); capital spending grew 14.3% a year (top 14%) (its annual reports). Standard Motor Products reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Vehicle Control at $785 million, Temperature Control at $426 million, Nissens Automotive at $305 million, and 1 more. 3 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 44% of revenue (its annual report).

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Standard Motor Products' newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 18.5% above the $1.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 17% of its family); net income of $41 million against a prior three-year average of $39 million (top 32%); a net margin of 2.3% against 2.8% before (top 47%) (its annual reports).