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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Electrical Equipment · CIK 0000065270
$12.66
-13.05% · live
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$449.1M market value
From METHODE ELECTRONICS INC's FY2026 10-K, filed Jun 24, 2026 · read the filing
METHODE ELECTRONICS designs and makes computer chips. It took in $1.02B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 4 cents on every dollar of sales.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with debt worth watching, while profitability and growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From METHODE ELECTRONICS INC's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Operating income
-$23.9M → $8.8M
Profit
-$62.6M → -$35.7M
Free cash flow
-$15.2M → $15.6M
Earnings per share
-$1.78 → -$1.01
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Jun 24, 2026
Improved: turned positive
-$23.9M to $8.8MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: $26.9M narrower
-$62.6M to -$35.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
MEI fell 13.05% on the latest quote. The average Technology company tracked here moved −1.27%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 11.8 points below its sector and 12.0 points below the market.
No filing from MEI and no news item about it appeared in the last 3 days.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 8.7% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $35.7M last year, losing about 4 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 2.8% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 4.9 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.08 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It paid a dividend while making a loss, so the payment did not come out of profits — it came from reserves, borrowing or asset sales. It paid out 22% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
WeakNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it lost $35.7M and generated $38.0M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Jun 24, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Jul 9, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Jul 11, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Jun 27, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Jun 23, 2022Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $1.02B | $1.05B | $1.11B | $1.18B | $1.16B | −2.8% |
| Cost of revenue | $817.0M | $884.7M | $935.7M | $915.5M | $898.7M | −7.7% |
| Gross profit | $202.2M | $163.4M | $178.8M | $264.1M | $264.9M | +23.7% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 19.8% | 15.6% | 16.0% | 22.4% | 22.8% | +4.2 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $170.3M | $163.9M | $160.9M | $154.9M | $134.1M | +3.9% |
| Operating income | $8.8M | -$23.9M | -$112.0M | $90.4M | $111.7M | n/m |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 0.9% | -2.3% | -10.0% | 7.7% | 9.6% | +3.1 pts |
| Income before tax | -$10.7M | -$50.1M | -$128.1M | $90.1M | $118.5M | +78.6% |
| Net income | -$35.7M | -$62.6M | -$123.3M | $77.1M | $102.2M | +43.0% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -3.5% | -6.0% | -11.1% | 6.5% | 8.8% | +2.5 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-1.01 | $-1.78 | $-3.49 | $2.06 | $2.67 | +43.4% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Shares were sold back to the company — 14,012 shares at $14.29 ($200.2K)
Holds 135,424 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 48 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 18 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from MEI's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-05-02, filed Jun 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 5.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Jun 24, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 4.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 9, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 5.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 11, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Jun 27, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Jun 23, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Jun 24, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.06
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.85
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: turned positive
-$15.2M to $15.6MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: $0.77 narrower
-$1.78 to -$1.01Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: -59.3%
$20.4M to $8.3MCritical
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Changed: -46.2%
$41.6M to $22.4MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +23.7%
$163.4M to $202.2MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +4.3 pts
15.6% to 19.8%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +3.1 pts
-2.3% to 0.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +34.7%
$103.6M to $139.6MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +2.5 pts
-6.0% to -3.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q1 FY2027 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Sep 2, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$1.1M to -$3.9MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$18.0M to -$10.9MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Changed: -56.3%
$7.1M to $3.1MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Changed: -35.7%
$2.8M to $1.8MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Improved: +10.4%
$240.5M to $265.4MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +9.7%
$43.5M to $47.7MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: $1.1M wider
-$10.3M to -$11.4MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.9 pts
0.5% to -1.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: $0.03 wider
-$0.29 to -$0.32Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
3 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Trailing P/E is not meaningful because the latest trailing earnings are zero or negative. The price-to-book and price-to-sales figures below still provide reference points.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
Quarterly report for Q1 FY2027
Revenue +10.4% · Operating margin −1.9 pts · Operating income turned negative — against Q1 FY2026
Published results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Operating margin +3.1 pts · Operating income turned positive · Profit $26.9M narrower — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Operating margin −1.7 pts · Operating income $3.9M wider · Dividends paid -66.0% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -15.6% · Operating margin −2.0 pts · Operating income -69.1% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue -7.0% · Operating margin +3.4 pts · Operating income turned positive — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -6.0% · Operating margin +7.8 pts · Operating income $88.1M narrower — against FY2024
Read the filingThe first 40 of 48. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-06-24. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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