Company Analysis

Virco Manufacturing Corporation (VIRC)

Nasdaq: VIRC · Public Bldg & Related Furniture · Torrance, CA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.2
◀ Past 3.4● Present 5.1▶ Future 3.7

The grade of Virco Manufacturing Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past3.430% of the headline
● Present5.140% of the headline
▶ Future3.730% 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?

3.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-06-06.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 3 times, the latest 2025-06-06) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
3.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.1% a year over 8 filed years; profitable in 5 of 8.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $201 million in fiscal 2019 to $200 million in fiscal 2026, down 0.1% a year; it rose in 3 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 5 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.1%top 42% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 8% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 25% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak25.8%bottom 42% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.8/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.9% a year. 19% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 21 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 48th percentile among 5 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, Virco Manufacturing Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 19% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 21 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $450 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 30% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 25% 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?

5.1/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.2/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 2%: 2¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 39%: owes 39¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 6 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, Virco Manufacturing Corporation earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 47 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 39 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 25% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 25% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 42% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 10% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 31% of 6 in its family; net margin 1.3%.

weight 33% of this tense · 31st percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's standing among 6 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $200 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 8% by size; a net margin of 1.3% ranks in the bottom 25%; revenue growth of -4.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 42% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$200Mbottom 8% of its family
  • net margin1.3%bottom 25% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-4.8%top 42% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
6.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 39% of 5 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2006.

weight 22% of this tense · 61st percentile among 5 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Virtue, Robert A (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-06-27, 20.4 years (top 30% of its family); the 7 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.4 years (top 30%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 7 people in charge now (bottom 42%; 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 charge2 in three years among 7 peoplebottom 42% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed10.4 yearstop 30% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record20.4 yearstop 30% 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?

3.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 36% of 6 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $14 million against debt of $4 million leaves 6.2% of its assets as net cash, top 42% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -3.4% of revenue (bottom 8%); a gross margin of 40.7% (bottom 42%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets6.2%top 42% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-3.4%bottom 8% of its family
  • gross margin40.7%bottom 42% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 42% of 6 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 58th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -4.8% a year over the last three filed years against -0.1% over all 8, slowing (top 25% of its family); the newest year grew -25% (bottom 8%); capital spending grew 20.7% a year (top 8%) (its annual reports). Virco Manufacturing Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-4.7 points a yeartop 25% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-25.0%bottom 8% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending20.7%top 8% 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
0.8/10

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

bottom 8% of 6 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 8th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Virco Manufacturing Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $200 million in fiscal 2026 came in 30.1% below the $286 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 8% of its family); net income of $3 million against a prior three-year average of $20 million (bottom 8%); a net margin of 1.3% against 7.8% before (bottom 8%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-30.1%bottom 8% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-87%bottom 8% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-6.5 pointsbottom 8% 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 VIRC · research, not advice