Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 11, 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.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

17.6

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

49.1

P / E (ttm)

-1.5%

ROE

$598M

Market cap

1.16%

Dividend yield

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 (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.

Sturm Ruger & Co Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 17.6, 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

-3.6%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -3.6% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 33% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

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%.

-89%

FY2023→FY2024

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~89% in FY2024 (from FY2023). 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%

Net Margin-0.8%

Free Cash Flow$38.5M

Return on Equity-1.5%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.