Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Aug 10, 2026

Buckle Inc (BKE)

A forensic read on Buckle Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

A · High-quality compounder

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

8.3

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

10.6

P / E (ttm)

49.4%

ROE

$2.4B

Market cap

3.06%

Dividend yield

6.6%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Buckle Inc earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 8.3, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share count.

What the filings flag

+0.7%/yr

FY2023–FY2026

Share count. Diluted share count changed +2% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (+0.7%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

109% of FCF

FY2026

Shareholder returns. Returned $225M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2026 — 109% of free cash flow. Right at the limit of what free cash flow covers — little room before it's funded by debt or the balance sheet. That ratio has been CLIMBING toward the limit — 96% of free cash flow a few years back — not just sitting there.

-62%

FY2012→FY2013

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~62% in FY2013 (from FY2012) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.30B

Revenue Growth YoY+6.6%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-1.2%

Net Margin16.2%

Free Cash Flow$205.8M

Return on Equity49.4%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.