New shipWilldan $WLDN
Grew revenue 20.5% in FY2026 to $682 million, operating margin 6.5%, in line with the 6.5% median for engineering services, equity 56.0% of assets.
Last filing8-K · Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, 23 Sept 2026
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🫧 Edgar looked up WILLDAN GROUP, INC. ($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.
🔖 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; across 2019–2025, 69.0% landed inside, 83.4% on the one year the method never saw). In a shock year the stress range is $653.2M to $962.1M. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (37 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 6.5% against a 6.5% median; growth 20.5% against 3.9%.
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Speed and cash · fiscal 2025
Both views must agree for a label · a description, not advice.
| Cash flow (op · inv · fin · free) | $80M · −$46M · −$43M · $71M |
| Investment book (cash · short · long) | $66M · — · — · current ratio 1.56 |
| Revenue swing · equity of assets | 4.1% · 56.0% |
Willdan Group is growing faster than its size class, with steadier revenue. Its own audited SEC figures.
The figures, as filed
| Fiscal year end | 2026-01-02 |
| Revenue | $682M |
| Revenue, on the year | 20.5% |
| Revenue, a year over the record | 17.8% |
| Operating margin | 6.5% |
| Operating margin, prior year | 5.5% |
| Net margin | 7.7% |
| Research and development | not filed separately |
| Total debt | $48M |
| Equity of assets | 56.0% |
| Return on equity | 17.2% |
| Payout of profit | — |
| Dividend per share | — |
| Earnings per share | $3.63 |
| Book value per share | $20.23 |
| Revenue per share | $45.22 |
| Shares outstanding | 15,071,000 |
| Audited years read | 5 |
Peers: the median of 37 filers with $50M+ revenue in services-engineering services.
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Health HarborWilldan Group sails as: New ship
Health watch · 12 monthsDirector or officer change
Sailing speed follows growth: 16.7% a year crosses the harbor in 30 seconds.
🌊 Visit the Bay →No warning signs on the measures below.
Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an operating loss; negative free cash flow outside regulated utilities; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.
Brand success factors · calendar 2025
The Trillion Score: 538
Exponential Success Score
Built on over $200 trillion of sworn revenue, 13 years of data, 770,002 figures. Sealed by Edgarette.
How The Trillion Score works. We read eight measures of success from Willdan's own SEC filings and test each one against the public companies in its field, here engineering services. The longer and fuller the record, the more weight those results carry. A model built on past filings then turns them into the odds of thriving, which means outgrowing the field for three years without a severe decline. A score of 500 is about average, and every 100 points doubles the odds. Every company is ranked on this same scale.
What it says here. At 538, Willdan's odds of thriving come to 43%, against about 37% for the typical filer. It meets 4 of 7 success points.
What the score means
The higher the score, the more often companies went on to thrive. At this level, about 38 of every 100 did.
Share of companies that beat their field for three years with no severe decline, tested on 2019 to 2022 filings.
Fall Risk: Medium
Separate from the score, this asks what could go wrong: the odds of sales falling 30% or the filings stopping within three years. In the tests, about 22 of every 100 companies in the Medium band did. That is the group's history, not a forecast for this company.
| Money | It keeps about 10 cents of free cash from each sales dollar after paying for its plants and equipment. It holds more cash than debt. | moderate |
| Swings | In its worst fifth of years, sales fell about 13% a year. | -12.5% a year |
| Filed events | In the last two years it told the SEC about 5 filings on leadership or auditor changes. | 5 |
The eight success points
| Point | What it means | Place in field | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Sales grew faster than most of its field. | 71 of 100 | Met |
| Steadiness | Growth swung a lot for what it delivered. | 57 of 100 | Not yet |
| Price premium | It keeps less of each sales dollar than the leaders in its field. | 50 of 100 | Not yet |
| Margin stays above the field | Its margin has held above the field year after year. | 60 of 100 | Met |
| Moat half-life | Its margin edge is fading slowly, if at all. | 60 of 100 | Met |
| Brand spend yield | Not filed. | ||
| Learning curve | Costs have not fallen much as a share of sales as it grew. | 50 of 100 | Not yet |
| Climb in the field | It has been moving up the size ranks in its field. | 83 of 100 | Met |
Price premium $0M is the extra gross profit over a field-median margin. Momentum $18M is gross profit times growth above the field's pace.
The actuarial view
| Credibility | With 8 years of filings, the record earns 61% of the weight. The rest stays at the middle of the field. | 0.61 |
| Severe decline, class B | About 26 of every 100 companies with this many points fell 30% or stopped reporting within three years. | 26.1% |
| Actual vs expected | Sales are 24% higher than if it had simply kept pace with its field. | 1.24 |
Top of its field: #1 Paychex · #2 Acorn Energy · #3 Willdan · #4 VSE · #5 Tetra Tech
Ranked by The Trillion Score. See the method and score your own brand. Tested on 2019 to 2022 filings. Odds, class and Fall Risk figures are the experience of similar filers, not a forecast for this company. A statistical description of past filings, not a rating or advice.
- 8-K · 2026-09-23 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 10-Q · 2026-08-07
- 8-K · 2026-08-06 · 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-06-18 · 5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers; 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 10-Q · 2026-05-08
- 8-K · 2026-05-07 · 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
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