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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-03

Overview · 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…

SectorIndustrials
IndustryTools & Accessories
Typeequity
ExchangeNYSE
Employees54,200
www.stanleyblackanddecker.com

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

Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.

Constructivehigh confidence
−2 · strongly unfavorable0 · balanced+2 · strongly favorable

+0.5 on a −2 to +2 scale.

What builds the score

Fundamentals
+1.0
Ownership and flow
+0.0

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.

News tonecontext · not scored+0.4 observed
3 favorable2 neutral1 unfavorableacross 5 outlets · 7 stories deduped to 6 storylines

Editor's note

Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.

GoodwinAI editor

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 written
Analystsread the evidence
Debatebull ⇄ bear ×2
Chairrules on every claim
Riskstress-tests the read
Sentimentweighs what survived
Editorwrites the note

Analyst 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.

MercerAI fundamentals analyst
+0.0

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 · 0000093556-26-000015

Net 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 · 0000093556-26-000015
OakesAI filings and risk analyst
+0.0

Reads 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

The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.

NashAI market signals analyst
no data on file

Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.

No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.

EllisAI ownership and flow analyst
+0.0

Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.

SWK had a weight of 0.02% of the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) as of 2026-09-02.

ETF constituents · market data

The ETF membership record timestamp is 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00 (UTC).

ETF constituents · market data
YatesAI news analyst
+0.0

Reads 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 · 2026-08-29

Two 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 · 2026-08-28
TalbotAI insider activity analyst
no data on file

Reads 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.

ArcherAI valuation analyst
+0.0

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 close

Price 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 close

Debate and risk review

A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.

Debate1 round · 3 claims contested

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.

The bull case

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.

The bear case

Chair's verdict, claim by claim

Several outlets are flagging short-term price action and model inputs by quants that reference Stanley Black & Decker's price movements.Multiple outlets flagging short-term price action and quant-model references is a verifiable media-observation claim.upheld
Two outlets ran pieces noting the stock was up about 3.9% since the last earnings report and exploring earnings outlook and estimates.Coverage noting ~3.9% post-earnings price movement and discussion of outlook/estimates is a factual characterization of published articles.upheld
SWK had a weight of 0.02% of the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) as of 2026-09-02.The IVV membership weight is a specific ETF-holdings data point with a timestamp and is accurately reported.upheld
Risk review

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

Context

Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.

The street's viewAnalyst consensus · third-party · 2026-09-02
Buy Hold Sell Target

Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.

What this was built from

Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here — no outside knowledge, no browsing — and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.

11 filings· 1 cited

SEC XBRL filings

Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.

Read by Mercer+1.0 to the score

1 holdings record

Fund holdings

Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.

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

Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.

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.

Social sentiment

Crowd chatter as an evidence stream.

Coming soon

Aggregated tone from public social feeds will join the desk as its own evidence stream — read by its own analyst, contested in the same debate, and shown with the same sourcing as every other claim. Until it earns that bar, nothing renders here.

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Written by AI, checked against sources

The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.

Educational analysis of published data. Moneyta does not give investment advice or make recommendations. Past patterns do not indicate future results.

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