Dauch
DCH on NYSE. Dauch Corporation sells axles and driveline parts to car makers. Market value $1.3bn.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $-1.79 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 69.8 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 6 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 51 of 100. Price score: 0 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$5.85 a share, 19% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $4.92 to $9.25.
Pays no dividend
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: a shortfall of $25 million in the past 12 months, $155 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $5.2bn | $5.8bn | $6.1bn | $6.1bn | $5.8bn |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 4.7% | 4.2% | 2.4% | 3.9% | 1.9% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 6.85 | 4.74 | 4.65 | 4.73 | 6.40 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.11bn | 0.12bn | 0.12bn | 0.12bn | 0.24bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
- Financial strength (Piotroski)3 of 9
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt6.40× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 4.4% a year
- Buying back its own sharesNo, 107% more shares since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $3 billion last quarter, up 92% on a year ago.
- Profit: $1 million, down 97% on a year ago.
- It keeps 1 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, down from 3 cents a year earlier.
- Over the past 12 months it spent $25 million more cash than it brought in. A year earlier it had $165 million spare.
- 100% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- Debt is $4.2 billion more than cash, up from $2.1 billion a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $1.5bn |
| December 2024 | $1.4bn |
| March 2025 | $1.4bn |
| June 2025 | $1.5bn |
| September 2025 | $1.5bn |
| December 2025 | $1.4bn |
| March 2026 | $2.4bn |
| June 2026 | $3.0bn |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $10m |
| December 2024 | -$14m |
| March 2025 | $7m |
| June 2025 | $39m |
| September 2025 | $9m |
| December 2025 | -$75m |
| March 2026 | -$100m |
| June 2026 | $1m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 13 February 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 6 November 2026
Who owns it
9 long-term investors we follow own it, up from 8 last quarter. 308 funds in all.
- LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok
- Value
- $1m
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
- GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli
- Value
- $549,127
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenlight CapitalDavid Einhorn | $67m | 1.7% | Added |
| Barrow HanleyBarrow Hanley team | $21m | <0.1% | Cut |
| Miller Value PartnersBill Miller IV | $12m | 2.9% | Added |
| Atlantic Investment ManagementAlex Roepers | $8m | 4.0% | Cut |
| Royce & AssociatesChuck Royce | $6m | <0.1% | Added |
| LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok | $1m | <0.1% | |
| GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli | $549,127 | <0.1% | |
| Gotham Asset ManagementJoel Greenblatt | $111,565 | <0.1% | New |
| GMOJeremy Grantham | $85,511 | <0.1% | Cut |
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$207mAdded
- Bank of America$67mAdded
- Greenlight Capital$67mAdded
- FMR$58mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$55m
- State Street$54mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$40mCut
- Geode Capital Management$33mAdded
- Goldman Sachs Group$29mCut
- Invesco$28mAdded
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
3 investors own more than 5%.
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investor14.1%−1.1 ptsSince 30 September 2025
- DME Advisors GP, L.L.C.Passive investorat least 5.2%(filed with 3 related holders)Since 30 June 2026
- FMR LLCPassive investorat least 4.3%−1.0 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 31 March 2026
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LPPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 31 March 2026
- Millennium Management LLCPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 January 2026
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | 14.1%−1.1 pts | 30 September 2025 | |
DME Advisors GP, L.L.C. Passive investor | at least 5.2% (filed with 3 related holders) | 30 June 2026 | |
FMR LLC Passive investor | at least 4.3%−1.0 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 31 March 2026 | |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 31 March 2026 | |
Millennium Management LLC Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 January 2026 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 13 March 2026 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $182,000 of shares on the open market.
- Walker David B.DirectorBought
- Date
- 13 March 2026
- Shares
- 35,000
- Price
- $5.20
- Value
- $182,000
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | Walker David B. Director | Bought | 35,000 | $5.20 | $182,000 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the serious warning signs we check for were found. 1 thing worth knowing.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 13 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 7 Aug 2026 and 5 later 8-Ks.
One big customer
Worth knowingOne customer brings in a big share of sales: 44% last year. Losing that customer would hurt.
“Sales to General Motors Company (GM) were approximately 44 % of our consolidated net sales in 2025, 42 % in 2024, and 39 % in 2023.”
From the 10-K filed 13 February 2026, Item 8. Financial Statements and Notes. Read it in the filing
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
- It carries a lot of debt: 6.4× its equity.
- It isn't cheap on profits: 69.8× operating profit.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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