Whirlpool Corp. (WHR)

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Whirlpool Corp.'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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Whirlpool Corp.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $21 billion in fiscal 2016 to $16 billion in fiscal 2025, down 3.2% a year; it rose in 2 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 29% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Whirlpool Corp.'s diluted share count grew about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 50% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $199 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Whirlpool Corp. earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 15 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 83 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Whirlpool Corp.'s standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 12% by size; a net margin of 2% ranks in the top 49%; revenue growth of -7.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 15% (its annual reports).

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Whirlpool Corp.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bitzer, Marc R (CHAIRMAN AND CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-02-09, 8.8 years (top 27% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.4 years (bottom 19%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 23%; 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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Whirlpool Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $669 million against debt of $6.2 billion leaves -34.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 9% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.5% of revenue (bottom 35%); a gross margin of 15.4% (bottom 17%); research spending of 2.4% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

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Whirlpool Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -7.7% a year over the last three filed years against -3.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 35% of its family); the newest year grew -6.5% (bottom 23%); research spending grew -7.3% a year (bottom 21%); capital spending grew -12% a year (bottom 34%) (its annual reports). Whirlpool Corp. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Refrigeration at $4.8 billion (31%), Laundry at $4.4 billion (28%), Cooking at $3.7 billion (24%), and 3 more; 0 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Whirlpool Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.9% above the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 46% of its family); net income of $318 million against a prior three-year average of $454 million (top 8%); a net margin of 2% against -2.4% before (top 35%) (its annual reports).