Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK)

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2022-01-26) (its current reports).

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $12 billion in fiscal 2016 to $15 billion in fiscal 2026, up 3% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-03, Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 47% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03, Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. earned about 4 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 57 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 2.7% ranks in the bottom 28%; revenue growth of -3.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 28% (its annual reports).

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Nelson, Christopher John (Pres., Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-11-10, 1 years (bottom 21% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.5 years (bottom 6%); 13 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (bottom 19%; 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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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $280 million against debt of $4.7 billion leaves -20.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.5% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 30.3% (bottom 21%); research spending of 2.1% of revenue (top 10%) (its annual report).

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -3.7% a year over the last three filed years against 3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 17% of its family); the newest year grew -1.5% (bottom 28%); research spending grew -3.5% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew -18.8% a year (bottom 6%) (its annual reports). Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Tools and Outdoor at $13 billion, Engineered Fastening at $2.0 billion. 0 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 87% of revenue (its annual report).

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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3.4% above the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 39% of its family); net income of $402 million against a prior three-year average of $349 million (top 28%); a net margin of 2.7% against 2.1% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).