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Stanley Black & Decker $SWK

🫧 Edgar looked up STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. ($SWK). Last filing: 8-K (7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure), 2026-09-04. 13 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $15.1B (FY2026), total debt $5.3B. Experience: revenue down 1.5% on the year, down 0.2% a year over 4 years. Soundness: equity 42.6% of assets, return on equity 4.4%, payout 124.6% of profit, dividend per share up 17 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $11.6B and $16.7B next year (method v3, set from 1,471 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (8 filers, $50M+ revenue, cutlery, handtools & general hardware): growth -1.5% against 1.0%.

STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. against its own record and its peers
Revenue, on the yearPeer median 1.0%-1.5%Equity of assetsPeer median 61.8%42.6%Return on equityPeer median 7.2%4.4%Payout of profit124.6%Gold tick: the median of 8–8 peers with $50M+ revenue in cutlery, handtools & general hardware
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit120.0% paid outMore was paid out than was earned in the year.Handed back per share$3.3up 17 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund0.0%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed-1.5%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.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2026-01-03
Revenue$15.1B
Revenue, on the year−1.5%
Revenue, a year over the record−0.2%
Operating margin
Operating margin, prior year
Net margin2.7%
Research and development$321M · 2.1% of revenue
Free cash flow$688M
Cash$280M
Total debt$5.3B
Equity of assets42.6%
Return on equity4.4%
Payout of profit124.6%
Dividend per share$3.3 · up 17 years running
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 8 filers with $50M+ revenue in cutlery, handtools & general hardware.

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