SWK
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. engages in the tools and storage and industrial businesses in the United States, Canada, rest of Americas, France, rest of Europe, and Asia. Its Tools & Storage segment offers professional products, including professional grade corded and cordless electric power tools and equipment, and pneumatic tools and fasteners; and consumer products, such as corded and cordless electric power tools…
Management team
- Ms. Deborah K. Wintner · Senior VP & Chief Human Resources OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Scot D. Greulach · Chief Accounting OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Tamer K. Abuaita · Global Chief Supply Chain Officer & President of IndustrialFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Janet M. Link J.D. · Senior VP, General Counsel & SecretaryFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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+0.5 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Constructive (+0.5 of a possible +2; was +0.5 before debate). Revenues were $ 3,846,400,000 for Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-24) and $ 3,960,700,000 for Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-24). Net income moved from $ 59,600,000 in Q1 2026 to $ 351,300,000 in Q2 2026, and diluted earnings per share rose from $ 0.39 to $ 2.33 over the same quarters.
Share counts show weighted-average diluted shares outstanding fell from 152,389,000 in Q1 2026 to 150,648,000 in Q2 2026 while reported shares outstanding moved from 155,455,564 as of 2026-04-24 to 151,016,641 as of 2026-07-24, with repurchases of common stock of $ 15,300,000 in Q1 2026 and $ 252,100,000 in Q2 2026. On the balance sheet, long-term debt declined from $ 5,258,100,000 as of 2026-01-03 to $ 4,757,900,000 as of 2026-07-04 while cash and cash equivalents rose from $ 333,700,000 as of 2026-04-04 to $ 592,400,000 as of 2026-07-04; total assets fell from $ 21,599,800,000 as of 2026-04-04 to $ 20,093,500,000 as of 2026-07-04 and stockholders’ equity edged down from $ 8,976,700,000 to $ 8,958,800,000 over that interval.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenues were $3,846,400,000 for fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-04 to 2026-04-04, 3mo) and $3,960,700,000 for fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000093556-26-000015Net income rose from $59,600,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-04 to 2026-04-04, 3mo) to $351,300,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000093556-26-000015Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
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SWK had a weight of 0.02% of the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) as of 2026-09-02.
ETF constituents · market dataThe ETF membership record timestamp is 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00 (UTC).
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Several outlets are flagging short-term price action and model inputs by quants that reference Stanley Black & Decker's price movements.
News · news.stocktradersdaily.com · 2026-08-29Two outlets ran pieces noting the stock was up about 3.9% since the last earnings report and exploring earnings outlook and estimates.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-08-28Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The calculation shows an implied free-cash-flow (FCF) growth rate of 16.44% that today’s price would justify under the model’s stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice multiples from the filings: trailing P/E is 25.98, price-to-FCF (TTM) is 26.99, and EV/EBITDA (TTM) is 10.39.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Educationally, several recent filings point to strengthening underlying profitability and capital allocation that support a favorable read. Reported net income and diluted EPS both rose markedly between Q1 and Q2 2026 (fundamentals-1, fundamentals-2), while share counts declined and buybacks accelerated (fundamentals-3, fundamentals-4), which together amplified per‑share returns. Concurrently, balance-sheet shifts show lower long‑term debt and higher cash (fundamentals-5), and management has signaled sizable reinvestment plans in the U.S. (news-5); institutional buying was also disclosed (news-3). Valuation and cash‑flow metrics provide context that the current price embeds a material implied FCF growth rate and shows positive trailing FCF per share (valuation-0, valuation-2), suggesting the recent operational gains are being reflected in fundamental value measures.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.33
20 surviving claims rest on 11 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 35% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving evidence set rests on a modest number of independent sources but a nontrivial share of claims trace back to a single analyst thread, and every desk-raised issue survived internal debate. That mix implies the read is informative but somewhat fragile: source concentration and analyst dependence reduce how much weight to place on conclusions, and the fact that nothing was rejected suggests lower internal stress‑testing of contrary possibilities.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
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11 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer+1.0 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
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Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
7 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
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