News analysis
What the filings say about the stories moving companies and sectors.
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals: growth has picked up
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $16.9 billion, up 18.6% on the year before.
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Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. announces a buyback: what its cash flow shows
Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. announced a share repurchase authorisation of $200.0 million, the company said in a release on 30 October. Here is what its own filings say about whether it can afford it.
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Leidos raises its dividend: can the filings support it?
Leidos raised its quarterly dividend to $0.43 per share, the company said in a release on 30 October. Here is what its own filings say about whether it can afford it.
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Rockwell Automation raises its dividend: can the filings support it?
Rockwell Automation raised its quarterly dividend to $1.45 per share, the company said in a release on 30 October. Here is what its own filings say about whether it can afford it.
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Mondelez International: profit is outgrowing sales
Mondelez International is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $39.9 billion, up 6.0% on the year before.
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Pinterest: growth has slowed
Pinterest, Inc. is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $4.7 billion, up 15.4% on the year before.
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Reddit: growth has slowed
Reddit, Inc. is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $3.1 billion, up 62.2% on the year before.
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Stryker: profit is outgrowing sales
Stryker Corporation is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $26.3 billion, up 7.9% on the year before.
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Houlihan Lokey: the decline in sales is deepening
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $2.6 billion, down 0.4% on the year before.
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Jetblue Airways: growth has picked up
Jetblue Airways Corp is drawing far more news coverage than usual. Its own filings show twelve-month revenue of $10.0 billion, up 9.9% on the year before.
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Adobe's Cash Flow Keeps Growing, But the Market Is Pricing in Decline
Adobe's revenue and free cash flow keep growing, yet its shares have fallen more than a quarter in a year. The current price implies shrinking cash flow.
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Adobe shares fall 0.7% in a market-wide move as free cash flow margin cools
Adobe shares fell 0.7% on Wednesday, a move the broader market accounts for most of; free cash flow margin has slipped −0.6 percentage pointspp over the year even as revenue growth accelerates and the share count shrinks.
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Norwegian Cruise Line's earnings beat arrives against a free cash flow margin of −11.7%
Norwegian Cruise Line's FY2026 Q3 beat on 29 October sent shares up 10.9%. The data here cover FY2026 Q2 and the trailing twelve months through June, when free cash flow margin was −11.7%, down 6.4 percentage points on the year, as capital spending outran sales.
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F5's FY2027 growth guidance follows margins that were already slipping
F5 guided fiscal 2027 revenue growth of up to 9% after a fourth-quarter print that sent shares lower. Its own trailing data show growth already slowing and a free cash flow margin at a 39th-percentile reading, down 2.3 percentage points year on year.
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MGM Resorts' 896.1% profit jump isn't showing up in its cash flow
MGM Resorts' trailing net income rose 896.1% over the past year, but free cash flow grew just 2.2% and operating cash flow fell 9.1%, a gap the earnings-season coverage has largely skipped over.
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Is Etsy's earnings growth backed by cash flow?
Etsy's revenue and operating margin improved through fiscal Q3. Free cash flow fell 12.0% while net income surged, leaving earnings growth ahead of cash generation.
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Cheesecake Factory’s cash gains depend partly on lower capital spending
Cheesecake Factory reported record third-quarter revenue. Earlier SEC figures show stronger cash generation, helped by lower capital spending, while operating margin slipped.
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GE HealthCare’s earnings optimism meets an uneven cash recovery
Reports centre on stronger earnings and raised guidance. GE HealthCare’s trailing figures through FY2026 Q3 show a different distinction: cash generation improved sharply while net income declined.
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Agilysys's trailing net income grew 82.1% over the past year; free cash flow grew 42.8%
Agilysys drew a wave of coverage after its 26 October results and raised guidance. Its own SEC-derived figures show free cash flow growing roughly half as fast as net income over the trailing year, even as margins hit record levels.
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Block's free cash flow and profit have diverged sharply ahead of Q3 earnings
Block drew seven news stories in 24 hours this week, mostly analyst commentary ahead of third-quarter earnings. Its filings show trailing free cash flow up 266.4% over the year to June, against net income down 87.9%.
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Dollar General's thin margins put weight behind the FTC's checkout pricing claims
The FTC and twenty states have sued Dollar General over checkout pricing, according to reports. Its SEC filings, covering the quarter ended 31 July 2026, show a retailer operating on margins thin enough that pricing accuracy carries real financial weight.
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EQT's cash conversion was running near a multi-year high before the Range bid
EQT's free cash flow margin reached 39.4% and net income grew 137.1% in the year to June, filings show, months before this week's reported $50 billion Range Resources transaction dominated coverage.
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Greenbrier burned $239.7m in free cash flow despite a $79.0m profit
Greenbrier's latest SEC filings show free cash flow swinging to a $239.7m outflow even as net income stayed positive at $79.0m, a split this week's earnings coverage has not examined directly.
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HCA's Q3 beat follows a quarter where cash flow fell as profit rose
HCA Healthcare's third-quarter 2026 results, released today, drew a wave of headlines about a revenue beat. The company's most recent full filing, covering the second quarter, showed free cash flow falling as net income rose, a divergence the new print hasn't yet been tested against.
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Rambus's earnings beat conceals a shrinking cash margin
Rambus beat Q3 estimates and fell anyway, according to reports. Its own trailing figures show free cash flow margin down 3.8 percentage points to 39.3%, even as revenue growth held at 17.3%.
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Simpson Manufacturing's cash margin hit a 98th-percentile 19.3% as Q3 earnings landed
Eight reports on Simpson Manufacturing's Q3 results landed within a day, but the company's trailing SEC data, which still runs through June, shows free cash flow growing far faster than profit, largely on a sharp drop in capital spending.
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Surgery Partners' profit grew faster than its cash before the $5.7 billion buyout
Reports put Surgery Partners' take-private deal at $5.7 billion as shares surged. Its own SEC filings, covering the twelve months through June 2026, show free cash flow growth of 7.0%, well behind a 50.9% improvement in net income that remained a loss.
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What EQT’s filings say about the Range Resources deal
Reports put a $50 billion all-stock Range Resources transaction at the centre of attention. EQT’s FY2026 Q2 figures show strong cash generation, but cannot establish the deal’s financing or expected contribution.
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Why Corcept Therapeutics shares fell 20.1% on Friday
No filing, company release or report explains Corcept’s sharp fall on 23 October. The move was far larger than its typical daily change and came as recent cash flow and margins weakened.
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What Comfort Systems' filings say about its earnings-day slide
Comfort Systems shares fell on results day even as coverage surged. The company's own SEC filings show free cash flow growing more than twice as fast as net income, and a revenue figure the headlines don't fully explain.