Universal Corporation (UVV)

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Universal Corporation's filings since 2017 show 6 warning events of 3 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 3 times, the latest 2025-02-10); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-11-22); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2025-02-10) (its current reports).

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Universal Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026, up 3.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-03-31, Universal Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 64% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-03-31, Universal Corporation earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 17 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 47 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Universal Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 40% by size; a net margin of 1.1% ranks in the top 39%; revenue growth of 4.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 30% (its annual reports).

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Universal Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wigner, Preston Douglas (Chairman, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-10-03, 2.1 years (bottom 48% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7 years (bottom 48%); 13 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 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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Universal Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $62 million against debt of $617 million leaves -20% of its assets as net cash, bottom 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.8% of revenue (top 30%); a gross margin of 16.4% (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Universal Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 4.2% a year over the last three filed years against 3.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 10% of its family); the newest year grew -1.3% (top 50%); capital spending grew -3.7% a year (top 45%) (its annual reports). Universal Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Tobacco Operations at $2.6 billion, Ingredients Operations at $339 million. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 89% of revenue (its annual report).

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Universal Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 7.8% below the $3.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 27% of its family); net income of $33 million against a prior three-year average of $113 million (bottom 42%); a net margin of 1.1% against 4.2% before (bottom 27%) (its annual reports).