Woodward, Inc. (WWD)

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Woodward, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2019-08-12) (its current reports).

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Woodward, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.5% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 23% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Woodward, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 57% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 73 sales (64 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-06 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Woodward, Inc. earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 21 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 45 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Woodward, Inc.'s standing among 7 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 7% by size; a net margin of 12.4% ranks in the top 7%; revenue growth of 14.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 36% (its annual reports).

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Woodward, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Blankenship, Charles P (Chairman of the Board and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-05-11, 4.5 years (bottom 38% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 30%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 31%; 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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Woodward, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $327 million against debt of $580 million leaves -5.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 31% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.5% of revenue (top 7%); a gross margin of 26.8% (top 36%); research spending of 4.1% of revenue (bottom 25%) (its annual report).

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Woodward, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 14.4% a year over the last three filed years against 6.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 25% of its family); the newest year grew 7.3% (bottom 25%); research spending grew 7.2% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 35.3% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). Woodward, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Aerospace at $2.3 billion (65%), Industrial at $1.3 billion (35%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Woodward, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 9.1% below the $3.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 8% of its family); net income of $442 million against a prior three-year average of $259 million (top 8%); a net margin of 12.4% against 8.8% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).