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Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up WILLDAN GROUP, INC. ($WLDN). Last filing: 8-K (1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement), 2026-09-23. 6 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-01-02", "revenue": 681552000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.2045853820621495, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.17788195742364388, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.06477422118928564, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.05541376957854217, "netMargin": 0.07711370519050638, "operatingCashFlow": 80084000, "capitalSpending": 9387000, "freeCashFlow": 70697000, "researchAndDevelopment": null, "researchShareOfRevenue": null, "cash": 65919000, "longTermDebt": 48462000, "longTermDebtChange": -0.458446478259412, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2021-12-31", "revenue": 353755000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-12-30", "revenue": 429138000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-12-29", "revenue": 510095000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-12-27", "revenue": 565798000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-01-02", "revenue": 681552000 } ], "totalEquity": 304851000, "totalAssets": 544211000, "equityRatio": 0.5601705955961934, "returnOnEquity": 0.17240225552811045, "dividendsPaid": null, "payoutRatio": null, "dividendPerShare": null, "dividendYearsRising": null, "dividendCut": null, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "earningsPerShare": 3.63, "sharesOutstanding": 15071000, "bookValuePerShare": 20.22765576272311, "revenuePerShare": 45.222745670493, "range80": { "low": 696782279.1707067, "high": 899544631.2606527, "baseline": 808084602.4381652, "n": 4309, "band": "b01", "bandLabel": "$100M–1B", "method": "v4.1", "credibility": 0.5, "growthYears": 4, "ownVolatility": 0.041077816894753275, "classVolatility": 0.1022985825903761, "volatility": 0.07794994240164285 }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 696782279.1707067, "high": 899544631.2606527 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $681.6M (FY2026), total debt $48.5M. Experience: revenue up 20.5% on the year, up 17.8% a year over 4 years; operating margin 6.5%, up from 5.5%. Soundness: equity 56.0% of assets, return on equity 17.2%. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $696.8M and $899.5M next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $100M–1B filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $653.2M to $962.1M. A range, not a forecast. Against peers (37 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 6.5% against a 6.5% median; growth 20.5% against 3.9%.", "peers": { "sic": 8711, "sicDescription": "Services-Engineering Services", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 2, "group": "87", "growth": [ 0.0394, 36 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0648, 37 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.4062, 37 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0895, 35 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.5699, 13 ] }, "summary": "Willdan Group, Inc. (WLDN) grew revenue 20.5% in FY2026 to $682 million, operating margin 6.5%, in line with the 6.5% median for services-engineering services, equity 56.0% of assets. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
WILLDAN GROUP, INC. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 6.5%6.5%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 3.9%20.5%Equity of assetsPeer median 40.6%56.0%Return on equityPeer median 8.9%17.2%Gold tick: the median of 35–37 peers with $50M+ revenue in services-engineering services
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Years 2018-2023 were used to fit or tune the method, so only 2025 outcomes are fully out of sample." }, "registry": { "logged": "2026-09-24T14:21:18.152Z", "hash": "a6e4e3d89d2aef80", "status": "open" }, "scorecard": "https://www.pops4.com/boards/scorecard" } }, "caution": "Figures are as filed in audited 10-K reports and can move with restatements, acquisitions, disposals or a change in fiscal year. A range set from how past company-years turned out is not a promise about the next one, and says nothing about the share price.", "sources": { "facts": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001370450.json", "filings": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1370450" } }, "definitions": { "operatingMargin": "Operating income divided by revenue.", "netMargin": "Net income divided by revenue.", "freeCashFlow": "Cash from operations minus spending on property and equipment.", "researchShareOfRevenue": "Research and development expense for the year as a share of revenue, both as filed.", "equityRatio": "Shareholders equity as a share of total assets, both as filed. 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