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Brady Corp. BRC
17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in BRADY CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 4 September 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
USD 1.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B
Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.5 · Net income 0.2
Compound annual growth
+5.1%
+7.0%
+2.6%
+1.2%
+8.1%
+11.0%
+51.4%
+5.7%
+10.9%
+13.4%
+6.4%
−16.3%
−2.9%
+8.2%
+6.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at +7.0% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +11.0%, earnings per share at +13.4%.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
13 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 15.6% · Net 12.5%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 16.8%
Each USD of equity produced 17 cents of profit this year.
The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Operating income $B | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Income tax $B | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.2 | −0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 3.94 | 4.05 | 3.51 | 2.89 | 2.46 | 2.10 | 2.45 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.58 | · | −0.89 | −3.02 | · | 2.03 | 1.55 | · |
| Dividend / sh $ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.78 | 0.76 | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 24 | 23 | 26 | 31 | 35 | 41 | 34 | 47 | 44 | 51 | 1372 | −88 | −25 | −217 | 35 | 45 | 51 |
| ROE % | 16.8 | 19.2 | 18.4 | 16.0 | 15.1 | 15.5 | 18.7 | 13.0 | 14.7 | 13.4 | 0.5 | −5.9 | −16.8 | −1.7 | 10.1 | 8.2 | · |
| Shares out B | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | · | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 67 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 28 checks could not be computed.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityMiscellaneous Manufacturing Industries
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inWisconsin
Fiscal year endsJuly 31
Data on record since2008