Jakks Pacific
JAKK on Nasdaq. JAKKS Pacific sells toys, costumes, and kids' furniture to retailers and families. Market value $318m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $11.27 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
Quality score: 48 of 100. Price score: 78 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$27.43 a share, 84% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $14.87 to $27.94.
Dividend: 3.6% a year
Paid in its latest year
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $35 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $1 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $621m | $796m | $712m | $691m | $571m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 6.2% | 7.7% | 8.3% | 5.7% | 2.5% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 1.78 | 0.65 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive3 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)5 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- DebtUnknown
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 2.0% a year
- Buying back its own sharesNo, 18% more shares since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $139 million last quarter, up 17% on a year ago.
- Profit: $6 million, after a loss of $2 million a year ago.
- It keeps 12 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, up from 7 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $35 million, down from $40 million.
- 7% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- Sales grew on a year ago in 1 of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $322m |
| December 2024 | $131m |
| March 2025 | $113m |
| June 2025 | $119m |
| September 2025 | $211m |
| December 2025 | -$330m |
| March 2026 | $107m |
| June 2026 | $139m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $52m |
| December 2024 | -$9m |
| March 2025 | -$2m |
| June 2025 | -$2m |
| September 2025 | $20m |
| December 2025 | -$5m |
| March 2026 | -$4m |
| June 2026 | $6m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 2 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 30 October 2026
Who owns it
4 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 4 last quarter. 105 funds in all.
- LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok
- Value
- $3m
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotchkis & WileyHotchkis & Wiley team | $8m | <0.1% | Cut |
| Donald Smith & Co.Jon Hartsel | $5m | <0.1% | Cut |
| LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok | $3m | <0.1% | |
| GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli | $3m | <0.1% | Added |
Largest holders overall
- Gate City Capital Management$25mAdded
- BlackRock$15mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$14mAdded
- Pacific Ridge Capital Partners$10m
- Vanguard Capital Management$9mAdded
- Hotchkis & Wiley$8mCut
- Thompson Siegel & Walmsley$7mCut
- Geode Capital Management$6mAdded
- Donald Smith & Co.$5mCut
- Gabelli Funds$4m
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
3 investors own more than 5%.
- Gate City Capital Management, LLCPassive investorat least 8.5%+1.6 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 31 March 2026
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investor5.5%+0.6 ptsSince 30 June 2026
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LPPassive investor5.1%+0.1 ptsSince 30 June 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Gate City Capital Management, LLC Passive investor | at least 8.5%+1.6 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 31 March 2026 | |
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | 5.5%+0.6 pts | 30 June 2026 | |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Passive investor | 5.1%+0.1 pts | 30 June 2026 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought or sold on the open market in the last 12 months.
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 2 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 31 Jul 2026 and 4 later 8-Ks.
One big customer
Worth knowingOne customer brings in a big share of sales: 26.6% last year. Losing that customer would hurt.
“Our two largest customers are Target® and Walmart®, which accounted for 26.6% and 26.1%, respectively, of our net sales in 2025.”
From the 10-K filed 2 March 2026, Item 1. Business. 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
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The deep dive
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