Forensic Analysis · Machinery & Fabricated Metal Products · as of Nov 8, 2026
Sturm Ruger & Co Inc (RGR)
A forensic read on Sturm Ruger & Co Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
B · Sound & dependable
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
11.9
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
-1.5%
ROE
1.9%
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 (auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern). 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.
Sturm Ruger & Co Inc earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 11.9, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-3.3%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -3.3% in the latest fiscal year and slipping across FY2023–FY2025 from 13.3%. After-tax operating profit was $43M in FY2023 and ($10M) in FY2025, with operating income at 9.6% of revenue in FY2023, 5.9% in FY2024 and -2.3% in FY2025. The capital base behind it went from $320M in FY2023 to $291M in FY2025 (-9%), while the revenue it carried went from $544M to $546M. $85M of the $291M base at FY2025 is short-term investments (29.1%) — securities held beside cash, which the base keeps because only cash is subtracted from it; they earn the balance sheet's yield, which is not in the operating profit above, so the loss on the operating capital is larger than this rate shows.
94% of FCF
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $36M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 94% 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. Counting the $5M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 107%.
-9%
FY2024→FY2025
Dividend — cut.The payout was CUT ~9% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$546.1M
Revenue Growth YoY+1.9%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+0.2%
Net Margin-0.8%
Free Cash Flow$38.5M
Return on Equity-1.5%
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