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Ethan Allen Interiors

ETD on NYSE. Ethan Allen sells furniture and home furnishings to retail customers. Market value $531m.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to June 2026.

We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
7.8%high

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $7.80 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to June 2026
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Quality score: 56 of 100. Price score: 83 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$21.07 a share, 15% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $18.28 to $28.39.

Dividend: 8.7% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Yields this high often come before a cut. Check the company's latest news.

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.1
0.1
0.1
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20222023202420252026
Revenue
$818m$791m$646m$615m$579m
Operating margin
16.9%17.3%12.1%10.1%7.8%
Debt to equity
n/an/an/an/an/a
Shares outstanding
0.03bn0.03bn0.03bn0.03bn0.03bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)6 of 7 checks we could run
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • DebtUnknown
  • Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 3.3% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $147 million last quarter, down 8% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $12 million, about the same as a year ago.
  • It keeps 8 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, down from 10 cents a year earlier.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $41 million, down from $50 million.
  • Sales did not grow on a year ago in any of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$154m
December 2024$157m
March 2025$143m
June 2025$160m
September 2025$147m
December 2025$150m
March 2026$136m
June 2026$147m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$15m
December 2024$15m
March 2025$10m
June 2025$12m
September 2025$10m
December 2025$12m
March 2026$6m
June 2026$12m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
3 September 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
29 July 2026

Who owns it

5 long-term investors we follow own it, down from 6 last quarter. 217 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26

Sold out this quarter

Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

3 investors own more than 5%; 1 of them is pushing for change.

  • BlackRock, Inc.
    Passive investor
    8.2%−5.5 pts
    Since 30 June 2026
  • 7.0%
    Since 31 March 2025
  • Douglas G. Bergeron
    Activist
    at least 5.0%0.0 pts
    (filed with 4 related holders)
    Since 25 August 2026
    What they said

    Item 4 is hereby amended to add the following: On August 19, 2026, the Issuer's counsel advised counsel for DGB Investment that in January 2026, the Board had purportedly reduced the size of the Board from six to five directors. The Issuer has never publicly disclosed this…

    Read the filing
  • The Vanguard Group
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 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 $24,610 of shares on the open market. 1 sold $1m, $1m of it under preset trading plans.

  • KATHWARI M FAROOQ
    Chairman, President & CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    2 September 2026
    Shares
    23,874
    Price
    $25.04
    Value
    $597,805
  • Tsai Cynthia Ekberg
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    5 August 2026
    Shares
    1,000
    Price
    $24.61
    Value
    $24,610
  • KATHWARI M FAROOQ
    Chairman, President & CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    22 January 2026
    Shares
    2,270
    Price
    $25.01
    Value
    $56,773
  • KATHWARI M FAROOQ
    Chairman, President & CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    15 December 2025
    Shares
    318
    Price
    $25.05
    Value
    $7,966
  • KATHWARI M FAROOQ
    Chairman, President & CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    11 December 2025
    Shares
    15,700
    Price
    $25.01
    Value
    $392,657
  • KATHWARI M FAROOQ
    Chairman, President & CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    15 October 2025
    Shares
    15,700
    Price
    $28.01
    Value
    $439,757

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 warning signs we check for were found.

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 3 Sep 2026, plus 1 later 8-K.

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

  • Sales have shrunk: 3.3% a year.

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The deep dive

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