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Genesco

GCO on NYSE. Genesco sells footwear and apparel to consumers through stores and websites. Market value $386m.

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

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Cash yield
past 12 months to July 2026
19.1%very high

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $19.14 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to July 2026
7.2×cheap

You pay 7.2 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to January 2026
2.9%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 3 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

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

$35.66 a share, 63% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $21.93 to $43.60.

Pays no dividend

Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.2
-0.2
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.1
2022202320242025202612 monthsto Jul '26
Revenue
$2.4bn$2.4bn$2.3bn$2.3bn$2.4bn
Operating margin
6.4%3.9%-0.6%0.6%0.7%
Debt to equity
0.030.070.060.000.01
Shares outstanding
0.01bn0.01bn0.01bn0.01bn0.01bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)6 of 8 checks we could run
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt0.01× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 6.4% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesYes, 14% fewer since 2022

The quarter to July 2026

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

  • Sales: $530 million last quarter, down 3% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $3 million, after a loss of $18 million a year ago.
  • It keeps 2 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, up from 1 cents a year earlier.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $74 million, up from $19 million.
  • 6% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
  • It has $41 million more cash than debt. A year ago debt was $30 million more than cash.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in 3 of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
October 2024$596m
January 2025$746m
April 2025$474m
July 2025$546m
October 2025$616m
January 2026$800m
April 2026$487m
July 2026$530m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
October 2024-$19m
January 2025$34m
April 2025-$21m
July 2025-$18m
October 2025$5m
January 2026$48m
April 2026-$15m
July 2026$3m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
25 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
10 December 2026

Who owns it

2 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 2 last quarter. 142 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

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

Big holders and activists

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

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

In the last 12 months, 2 insiders bought $109,963 of shares on the open market.

  • Collins Jonathan M.
    SVP Finance and CFO
    Bought
    Date
    21 September 2026
    Shares
    295
    Price
    $33.84
    Value
    $9,983
  • SANDFORT GREGORY A
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    9 July 2026
    Shares
    2,958
    Price
    $33.80
    Value
    $99,980

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 25 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 10 Sep 2026 and 8 later 8-Ks.

  • Changed auditor

    Worth knowing

    The company changed its auditor (the firm that checks its books) in the last two years.

    “On and effective as of April 30, 2025, the Audit Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board of Directors of Genesco Inc. (the “Company”) approved (1) the dismissal of Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm”

    From an 8-K filed 6 May 2025: Change of auditor. 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

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

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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.

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