Company Analysis

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (SPB)

NYSE: SPB · Miscellaneous Electrical Machinery, Equipment & Supplies · Middleton, WI · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade6.5
◀ Past 6.8● Present 7.8▶ Future 4.6

The grade of Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.5/10
◀ Past6.830% of the headline
● Present7.840% of the headline
▶ Future4.630% of the headline

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

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.8/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 88th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'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).

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

Track record

as filed
4.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-4.3% a year over 8 filed years; profitable in 8 of 8.

weight 45% of this tense · 48th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.8 billion in fiscal 2018 to $2.8 billion in fiscal 2025, down 4.3% a year; it rose in 4 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 36% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 8 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-4.3%bottom 20% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 33% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 4% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak35.8%bottom 41% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 14.1% a year. 50% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 79th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 14.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 50% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $182 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 9% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 32% 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?

7.8/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
8.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 5%: 5¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 43%: owes 43¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 85th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 31 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 43 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 15.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 33% of its family
  • return on equitytop 16% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 7% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 4% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 36% of 39 in its family; net margin 3.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 64th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s standing among 39 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 13% by size; a net margin of 3.6% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of -3.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 22% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.81Btop 13% of its family
  • net margin3.6%top 17% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.6%bottom 22% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
8.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 13% of 24 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2018.

weight 22% of this tense · 87th percentile among 24 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Maura, David M (Executive Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-07-17, 8.3 years (top 15% of its family); the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.2 years (top 16%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (top 9%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge1 in three years among 8 peopletop 9% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.2 yearstop 16% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record8.3 yearstop 15% of its family

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

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 49% of 39 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 49th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $124 million against debt of $496 million leaves -11% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5.9% of revenue (top 14%); a gross margin of 36.7% (top 19%); research spending of 0.8% of revenue (bottom 5%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-11.0%bottom 23% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue5.9%top 14% of its family
  • gross margin36.7%top 19% of its family
  • research spending against revenue0.8%bottom 5% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
4.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 48% of 35 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.6% a year over the last three filed years against -4.3% over all 8, speeding up (top 20% of its family); the newest year grew -5.2% (bottom 33%); research spending grew -4.6% a year (bottom 35%); capital spending grew -15.7% a year (bottom 44%) (its annual reports). Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Home and Personal Care at $1.2 billion (41%), Global Pet Supplies at $1.1 billion (39%), Home and Garden Business at $573 million (20%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.7 points a yeartop 20% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-5.2%bottom 33% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-4.6%bottom 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-15.7%bottom 44% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.7/10

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

bottom 37% of 35 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 37th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.6% below the $2.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 44% of its family); net income of $100 million against a prior three-year average of $666 million (bottom 27%); a net margin of 3.6% against 22.7% before (bottom 39%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-2.6%bottom 44% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-85%bottom 27% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-19.2 pointsbottom 39% of its family

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

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 SPB · research, not advice