Company Analysis

World Kinect Corporation (WKC)

NYSE: WKC · Wholesale-Petroleum & Petroleum Products (No Bulk Stations) · Miami, FL · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade4.4
◀ Past 6.1● Present 4.2▶ Future 3.3

The grade of World Kinect Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.4/10
◀ Past6.125% of the headline
● Present4.245% of the headline
▶ Future3.330% 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?

6.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 71st percentile among 36 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

World Kinect Corporation'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).

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?

+3.5% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 8 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

World Kinect Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $27 billion in fiscal 2016 to $37 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 49% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.5%bottom 39% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 50% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak48.8%bottom 16% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.3/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 3.8% a year. 44% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 25 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, World Kinect Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 3.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 44% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 25 sales (17 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 8% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 27% 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?

4.2/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -47%: lost 47¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 78%: owes 78¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 41st percentile among 33 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, World Kinect Corporation lost about 47 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 78 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 17% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 11% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 40% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 5% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
4.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 43% of 35 in its family; net margin -1.7%.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

World Kinect Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $37 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 10% by size; a net margin of -1.7% ranks in the bottom 27%; revenue growth of -14.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 13% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$36.92Btop 10% of its family
  • net margin-1.7%bottom 27% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-14.5%bottom 13% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
4.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 42% of 22 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

World Kinect Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Birns, Ira M (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-03-17, 8 months (bottom 7% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 11.3 years (top 11%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 29%; 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 charge8 in three years among 14 peoplebottom 29% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed11.3 yearstop 11% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record8 monthsbottom 7% 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?

3.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 39% of 35 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

World Kinect Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $194 million against debt of $685 million leaves -8.4% of its assets as net cash, top 46% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.6% of revenue (bottom 41%); a gross margin of 2.6% (bottom 20%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-8.4%top 46% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.6%bottom 41% of its family
  • gross margin2.6%bottom 20% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
2.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 25% of 35 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

World Kinect Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -14.5% a year over the last three filed years against 3.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 10% of its family); the newest year grew -12.5% (bottom 21%); capital spending grew -5.8% a year (bottom 42%) (its annual reports). World Kinect Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Aviation at $19 billion, Land at $10 billion, Marine at $7.7 billion. 0 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 51% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-18.0 points a yearbottom 10% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-12.5%bottom 21% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-5.8%bottom 42% 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
3.5/10

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

bottom 35% of 32 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 35th percentile among 32 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

World Kinect Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $37 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.6% above the $36 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 30% of its family); net income of $612 million against a prior three-year average of $79 million (bottom 6%); a net margin of -1.7% against 0.2% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace3.6%top 30% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 6% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.8 pointsbottom 30% 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 WKC · research, not advice