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Newell Brands

NWL on Nasdaq. Newell Brands sells household products such as appliances, cookware, and personal care items to consumers. Market value $2.3bn.

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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 December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
5.0%fair

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $4.99 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
43.7×full

You pay 43.7 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
0.7%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 1 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 28 of 100. Price score: 27 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$5.55 a share, 81% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $3.07 to $7.13.

Dividend: 5.1% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.6
-0.6
0.6
0.2
0.0
0.1
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26

Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $118 million in the past 12 months, $17 million in the year to December 2025.

Revenue
$10.6bn$9.5bn$8.1bn$7.6bn$7.2bn
Operating margin
9.6%3.3%-1.0%0.9%0.5%
Debt to equity
1.181.531.581.671.95
Shares outstanding
0.41bn0.41bn0.42bn0.42bn0.43bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)3 of 8 checks we could run
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt1.95× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 5.2% 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: $2 billion last quarter, up 3% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $106 million, up 130% on 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: $118 million. A year earlier it spent $104 million more than it brought in.
  • 2% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
  • Debt is $4.8 billion more than cash, down from $4.9 billion a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in 1 of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$1.9bn
December 2024$1.9bn
March 2025$1.6bn
June 2025$1.9bn
September 2025$1.8bn
December 2025$1.9bn
March 2026$1.5bn
June 2026$2.0bn
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024-$198m
December 2024-$54m
March 2025-$37m
June 2025$46m
September 2025$21m
December 2025-$315m
March 2026-$33m
June 2026$106m

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)
30 October 2026

Who owns it

3 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 3 last quarter. 425 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

7 investors own more than 5%.

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

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 4 sold $2m.

  • Turner Bradford R
    Chief Legal & Admin. Officer
    Sold
    Date
    6 August 2026
    Shares
    100,000
    Price
    $6.16
    Value
    $616,000
  • Malkoski Kristine Kay
    President, Learning & Dev.
    Sold
    Date
    27 May 2026
    Shares
    11,750
    Price
    $3.65
    Value
    $42,897
  • Turner Bradford R
    Chief Legal & Admin. Officer
    Sold
    Date
    22 May 2026
    Shares
    100,000
    Price
    $3.60
    Value
    $360,000
  • Huet Melanie Arlene
    President, Home & Com - Home
    Sold
    Date
    8 May 2026
    Shares
    91,000
    Price
    $4.50
    Value
    $409,500
  • Platt Tracy L
    Chief Human Resources Officer
    Sold
    Date
    4 May 2026
    Shares
    96,169
    Price
    $4.65
    Value
    $447,186

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 13 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 31 Jul 2026 and 7 later 8-Ks.

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: 5.2% a year.
  • It isn't cheap on profits: 43.7× 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
  • Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
  • The three things that would make this a mistake
  • Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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