Kontoor Brands, Inc. KTB
What this company does
Written from the business description in Kontoor Brands, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 4 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +8.5% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +27.3%, earnings per share at +28.2%.
The share count fell from 0.06B to 0.06B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
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.
Each USD of equity produced 47 cents of profit this year.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Operating income $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Net income $B | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | −0.1 | · |
| EPS, diluted $ | 4.05 | 4.36 | 4.06 | 4.31 | 3.31 | 1.17 | 1.69 | 4.64 | 2.05 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 2.09 | 2.02 | 1.94 | 1.86 | 1.66 | 0.96 | 1.12 | 0.00 | · |
| Payout % | 51 | 46 | 47 | 42 | 49 | 81 | 66 | 0 | 0 |
| ROE % | 47.1 | 63.7 | 74.2 | 123.1 | 167.9 | 88.3 | 10.8 | 17.1 | 8.6 |
| Shares out B | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.00 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 9 of 19 fiscal years. 52 checks could not be computed.