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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Tobacco · CIK 0000102037
$39.67
+3.79% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$988.7M market value
From UNIVERSAL CORP /VA/'s FY2026 10-K, filed Jun 1, 2026 · read the filing
UNIVERSAL /VA/ distributes goods wholesale to other businesses. It took in $2.89B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 1 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability and debt worth watching, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Freeman Lennart R., not under a pre-arranged plan.
$88.8K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From UNIVERSAL CORP /VA/'s FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Profit
$95.0M → $32.6M
Free cash flow
$264.4M → $80.3M
Earnings per share
$3.85 → $1.31
Cash
$260.1M → $62.2M
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Jun 1, 2026
Deteriorated: -65.7%
$95.0M to $32.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
UVV rose 3.79% on the latest quote. The S&P 500 moved −1.04%. That is 4.8 points above the market.
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 8.7% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $32.6M last year.
No. Sales shrank 1.3% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 4.3 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.12 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It paid out more than it earned — 249 cents for every dollar of profit. A payment above earnings has to be funded from somewhere else, so it is worth checking whether that can continue. It paid out 63% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
WeakNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $32.6M and generated $129.1M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Jun 1, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · May 30, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · May 29, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · May 25, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K/A · May 27, 2022Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $2.89B | $2.92B | $2.72B | $2.55B | $2.09B | −1.3% |
| Cost of revenue | $2.41B | $2.40B | $2.21B | $2.11B | $1.69B | +0.6% |
| Gross profit | $472.6M† | $524.3M† | $509.2M† | $438.3M† | $396.5M† | −9.9% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 16.4% | 17.9% | 18.7% | 17.2% | 19.0% | −1.6 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $300.7M | $305.3M | $310.6M | $277.2M | $240.7M | −1.5% |
| Operating income | $168.5M | $232.8M | $222.0M | $181.1M | $160.3M | −27.6% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 5.8% | 8.0% | 8.2% | 7.1% | 7.7% | −2.1 pts |
| Interest expense | $74.0M | $79.6M | $66.3M | $49.3M | $27.7M | −7.0% |
| Income before tax | $102.7M | $154.2M | $164.1M | $142.0M | $142.3M | −33.4% |
| Net income | $32.6M | $95.0M | $119.6M | $124.1M | $86.6M | −65.7% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 1.1% | 3.3% | 4.4% | 4.9% | 4.1% | −2.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $1.31 | $3.85 | $4.87 | $5.05 | $3.53 | −65.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UVVUNIVERSAL CORP /VA/ · this page | 6.0/10 | 6/9 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 6,469 shares at $41.68 ($269.6K)
Holds 121,913 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,782 shares at $49.82 ($88.8K)
Holds 16,935 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Signed a material agreement
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 50 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 26 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from UVV's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-03-31, filed Jun 1, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Jun 1, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed May 30, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 5.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed May 29, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed May 25, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed May 27, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed May 28, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
6.22
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.65
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -69.6%
$264.4M to $80.3MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -65.9%
$3.85 to $1.31Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -76.1%
$260.1M to $62.2MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -27.6%
$232.8M to $168.5MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Changed: -22.0%
$62.6M to $48.8MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -9.9%
$524.3M to $472.6MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −1.6 pts
17.9% to 16.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −2.1 pts
8.0% to 5.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −2.1 pts
3.3% to 1.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q1 FY2027 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -93.2%
$33.8M to $2.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$8.5M to -$5.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$0.34 to -$0.20Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -29.6%
$113.0M to $79.6MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −3.8 pts
19.1% to 15.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −5.3 pts
5.7% to 0.4%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: $84.1M narrower
-$217.2M to -$133.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Changed: +32.1%
$12.1M to $15.9MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -12.2%
$592.6M to $520.3MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: −2.4 pts
1.4% to -1.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
4 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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The trailing P/E is 13.9x — investors pay $13.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,650 shares
Holds 5,488 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,650 shares
Holds 14,647 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,650 shares
Holds 22,123 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,650 shares
Holds 11,467 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,650 shares
Holds 30,256 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,650 shares
Holds 19,179 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 1,782 shares ($88.8K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Compensation.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report for Q1 FY2027
Revenue -12.2% · Operating margin −5.3 pts · Operating income -93.2% — against Q1 FY2026
Published results · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Operating margin −2.1 pts · Profit -65.7% · Free cash flow -69.6% — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue -8.1% · Operating margin −1.6 pts · Profit -44.2% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +5.8% · Profit +31.7% · Earnings per share +31.3% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +2.8 pts · Operating income +96.3% · Profit +6436.2% — against Q1 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Held a shareholder vote · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingThe first 40 of 50. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-06-01. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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