WD-40 Company (WDFC)

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WD-40 Company'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).

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WD-40 Company's 7 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $408 million in fiscal 2020 to $688 million in fiscal 2026, up 9.1% a year; it rose in 6 of 6 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 7 of 7 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-08-31, WD-40 Company's diluted share count shrank about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 71% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 6 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-27, buying about $428 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-08-31, WD-40 Company earned about 30 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 77 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 45 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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WD-40 Company's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $688 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 44% by size; a net margin of 12% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of 8.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 31% (its annual reports).

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WD-40 Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Brass, Steven A (CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-10-12, 4.1 years (bottom 44% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.9 years (top 50%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 36%; 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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WD-40 Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $71 million against debt of $85 million leaves -3% of its assets as net cash, top 31% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 14.2% of revenue (top 6%); a gross margin of 55.3% (top 6%); research spending of 1.2% of revenue (bottom 19%) (its annual report).

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WD-40 Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 8.6% a year over the last three filed years against 9.1% over all 7, slowing (top 31% of its family); the newest year grew 11% (top 28%); research spending grew 9.3% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 2.5% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). WD-40 Company reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Americas at $291 million (47%), Europe India Middle East and Africa at $236 million (38%), Asia Pacific at $93 million (15%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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WD-40 Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $688 million in fiscal 2026 came in 3.3% above the $666 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 36% of its family); net income of $82 million against a prior three-year average of $76 million (top 19%); a net margin of 12% against 12.9% before (bottom 44%) (its annual reports).