Willdan Group, Inc. (WLDN)

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Willdan Group, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2018-07-17) (its current reports).

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Willdan Group, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $209 million in fiscal 2016 to $682 million in fiscal 2026, up 14% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 20% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-02, Willdan Group, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 5.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 10 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-02, Willdan Group, Inc. earned about 17 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 44 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 5.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Willdan Group, Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $682 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 36% by size; a net margin of 7.7% ranks in the top 28%; revenue growth of 16.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 39% (its annual reports).

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Willdan Group, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bieber, Michael A (PRESIDENT AND CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-03-11, 2.7 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.6 years (top 25%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 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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Willdan Group, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $66 million against debt of $48 million leaves 3.2% of its assets as net cash, top 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10.4% of revenue (top 28%); a gross margin of 37.5% (top 21%) (its annual report).

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Willdan Group, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 16.6% a year over the last three filed years against 14% over all 10, speeding up (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew 20.1% (top 39%); capital spending grew -0.7% a year (bottom 31%) (its annual reports). Willdan Group, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Energy at $576 million (85%), Engineering Consulting Services at $106 million (16%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Willdan Group, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $682 million in fiscal 2026 came in 4.9% above the $650 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 31% of its family); net income of $53 million against a prior three-year average of $8 million (top 12%); a net margin of 7.7% against 1.4% before (top 6%) (its annual reports).