{ "ok": true, "cik": "836157", "ticker": "LNN", "name": "Lindsay Corporation", "filings": [ { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-08-28", "items": [ "5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/836157/000119312526374348/0001193125-26-374348-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-07-17", "items": [ "5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/836157/000119312526307817/0001193125-26-307817-index.htm" }, { "form": "10-Q", "filed": "2026-07-02", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/836157/000119312526294516/0001193125-26-294516-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-07-02", "items": [ "2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/836157/000119312526293405/0001193125-26-293405-index.htm" }, { "form": "10-Q", "filed": "2026-04-02", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/836157/000119312526140093/0001193125-26-140093-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-04-02", "items": [ "2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/836157/000119312526138910/0001193125-26-138910-index.htm" } ], "events12m": 11, "sources": { "facts": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000836157.json", "filings": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=836157" }, "license": "Figures as filed with the SEC. Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up Lindsay Corporation ($LNN). Last filing: 8-K (5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers), 2026-08-28. 11 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-08-31", "revenue": 676368000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.11414423941727048, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.044783649914463375, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.13029001963428194, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.12619219403235848, "netMargin": 0.1094847775175644, "operatingCashFlow": 132910000, "capitalSpending": 42496000, "freeCashFlow": 90414000, "researchAndDevelopment": 17930000, "researchShareOfRevenue": 0.026509237574811346, "cash": 250575000, "longTermDebt": 115263000, "longTermDebtChange": -0.0019828213209572843, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2021-08-31", "revenue": 567646000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-08-31", "revenue": 770743000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-08-31", "revenue": 674084000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-08-31", "revenue": 607074000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-08-31", "revenue": 676368000 } ], "totalEquity": 532850000, "totalAssets": 840836000, "equityRatio": 0.6337145412422874, "returnOnEquity": 0.1389734446842451, "dividendsPaid": 15748000, "payoutRatio": 0.21266137308918057, "dividendPerShare": 1.45, "dividendYearsRising": 15, "dividendCut": false, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "range80": { "low": 552602852.5588756, "high": 888171775.4489636, "baseline": 700561425.6578038, "n": 4309, "band": "b01" }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 552602852.5588756, "high": 888171775.4489636 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $676.4M (FY2025), total debt $115.3M. Experience: revenue up 11.4% on the year, up 4.5% a year over 4 years; operating margin 13.0%, up from 12.6%. Soundness: equity 63.4% of assets, return on equity 13.9%, payout 21.3% of profit, dividend per share up 15 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $552.6M and $888.2M next year (method v3, set from 4,309 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (108 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 13.0% against a 9.7% median; growth 11.4% against 5.8%.", "peers": { "sic": 3523, "sicDescription": "Farm Machinery & Equipment", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 2, "group": "35", "growth": [ 0.0576, 116 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0972, 108 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.4545, 109 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0929, 100 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.3232, 55 ] }, "summary": "Lindsay (LNN) grew revenue 11.4% in FY2025 to $676 million, operating margin 13.0% against a 9.7% median for farm machinery & equipment, equity 63.4% of assets, and dividend per share up 15 years running. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
Lindsay Corporation against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 9.7%13.0%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 5.8%11.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 45.5%63.4%Return on equityPeer median 9.3%13.9%Payout of profitPeer median 32.3%21.3%Gold tick: the median of 55–109 peers with $50M+ revenue in farm machinery & equipment
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit21.3% paid out78.7% keptHanded back per share$1.45up 15 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund10.9%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed11.4%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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