Zebra Technologies Corporation (ZBRA)

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Zebra Technologies 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).

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Zebra Technologies Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.6 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 21% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Zebra Technologies Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 36% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-05, buying about $387 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Zebra Technologies Corporation earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 58 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Zebra Technologies Corporation's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 28% by size; a net margin of 7.8% ranks in the top 28%; revenue growth of -2.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 6% (its annual reports).

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Zebra Technologies Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Burns, Bill (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-03-03, 3.7 years (bottom 36% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.3 years (top 21%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 21%; 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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Zebra Technologies Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $125 million against debt of $2.4 billion leaves -26.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 15.4% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 48.1% (top 6%); research spending of 11% of revenue (top 7%) (its annual report).

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Zebra Technologies Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -2.3% a year over the last three filed years against 4.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 17% of its family); the newest year grew 8.3% (top 28%); research spending grew 1.3% a year (bottom 31%); capital spending grew 4.7% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Zebra Technologies Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Connected Frontline at $3.0 billion (55%), Asset Visibility and Automation at $2.4 billion (45%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Zebra Technologies Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 16.7% above the $4.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 6% of its family); net income of $419 million against a prior three-year average of $429 million (bottom 31%); a net margin of 7.8% against 8.4% before (bottom 31%) (its annual reports).