Symbotic Inc. (SYM)

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Symbotic Inc.'s filings since 2020 show 5 warning events of 3 kinds: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, 3 times, the latest 2024-11-27); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2022-06-13); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-11-27) (its current reports).

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Symbotic Inc.'s 6 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $92 million in fiscal 2020 to $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 89.4% a year; it rose in 5 of 5 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 0 of 7 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-27, Symbotic Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 26.1% 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 121 sales (90 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-27, Symbotic Inc. lost about 8 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 18 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 91 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 13.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Symbotic Inc.'s standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 27% by size; a net margin of -0.8% ranks in the top 43%; revenue growth of 55.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 17% (its annual reports).

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Symbotic Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Cohen, Richard B (Reporting Person is Board Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-01-06, 3.9 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.1 years (bottom 30%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 15%; 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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Symbotic Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.2 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 51.9% of its assets as net cash, top 10% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 38.6% of revenue (top 3%); a gross margin of 18.8% (bottom 25%); research spending of 9.6% of revenue (top 46%) (its annual report).

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Symbotic Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 55.7% a year over the last three filed years against 89.4% over all 6, slowing (bottom 11% of its family); the newest year grew 25.8% (top 46%); research spending grew 20.2% a year (top 42%); capital spending grew 51.2% a year (top 35%) (its annual reports). Symbotic Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Systems at $2.1 billion (94%), Operation Services at $98 million (4%), Software Maintenance and Support at $30 million (1%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Symbotic Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 27.4% below the $3.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 4% of its family); net income of $17 million against a prior three-year average of $15 million (bottom 29%); a net margin of -0.8% against -1.3% before (bottom 46%) (its annual reports).