Superior Group of Companies
SGC on Nasdaq. Superior Group of Companies sells uniforms, promotional products, and contact center services to businesses. Market value $207m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
The company doesn't report operating profit, so we work it out from pre-tax profit and interest.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
See Retail & consumer stocks that passed both tests
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $15.14 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 18.9 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: 50 of 100. Price score: 76 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$13.00 a share, 57% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $8.30 to $14.59.
Dividend: 4.2% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $31 million in the past 12 months, $16 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $537m | $579m | $543m | $566m | $566m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 6.4% | -5.7% | 3.6% | 3.7% | 2.4% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.51 | 0.81 | 0.48 | 0.44 | 0.49 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.02bn | 0.02bn | 0.02bn | 0.02bn | 0.02bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive3 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
- Financial strength (Piotroski)5 of 9
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.49× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 1.5% a year
- Buying back its own sharesYes, 2% fewer since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $148 million last quarter, up 3% on a year ago.
- Profit: $1 million, down 21% on a year ago.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $31 million, up from $15 million.
- 1% fewer shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit more of the company.
- Debt is $59 million more than cash, down from $78 million a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in 3 of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $150m |
| December 2024 | $145m |
| March 2025 | $137m |
| June 2025 | $144m |
| September 2025 | $138m |
| December 2025 | $147m |
| March 2026 | $141m |
| June 2026 | $148m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $5m |
| December 2024 | $2m |
| March 2025 | -$758,000 |
| June 2025 | $2m |
| September 2025 | $3m |
| December 2025 | $3m |
| March 2026 | $834,000 |
| June 2026 | $1m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 3 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 3 November 2026
Who owns it
1 long-term investor we follow owns it, unchanged from 1 last quarter. 105 funds in all.
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Manhattan Co.First Manhattan partners | $319,223 | <0.1% | Cut |
Largest holders overall
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$12m
- BlackRock$12mAdded
- North Star Investment Management$7m
- Vanguard Capital Management$6mCut
- American Century Companies$5m
- Geode Capital Management$4mAdded
- Wells Fargo & Company$3mAdded
- Neuberger Berman Group$3mCut
- Acadian Asset Management$3mAdded
- State Street$3m
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
No one has reported a stake above 5% since December 2024.
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 June 2025
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 June 2025 |
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 $8,490 of shares on the open market.
- Mellini Paul VDirectorBought
- Date
- 20 November 2025
- Shares
- 1,000
- Price
- $8.49
- Value
- $8,490
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2025 | Mellini Paul V Director | Bought | 1,000 | $8.49 | $8,490 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
What could go wrong
- Sales have barely grown: 1.5% a year.
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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Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.