secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     UNIVERSAL CORP /VA/ (UVV)
CIK:        0000102037
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000102037-21-000027
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Universal Q1: Adj. EPS $0.30 up 1400%, Revenue +11% to $350M, Ingredients profitable
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- Adjusted diluted EPS of $0.30 vs $0.02 YoY; reported EPS of $0.26 down from $0.29.
- Revenue $350.0M, +11% YoY; Tobacco ops sales $293.8M (-2%) but operating income +76% to $8.9M.
- Ingredients ops revenue $56.2M (+222%) including Silva acquisition; operating income $4.3M vs $(0.7)M loss.
- Quarterly dividend of $0.78 per share declared, payable Nov 1, 2021 to holders of record Oct 11, 2021.
- Appointed Thomas H. Johnson as Lead Independent Director; shareholder votes ratified auditor and say-on-pay.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102037/000010203721000027/0000102037-21-000027-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/102037/000010203721000027/xbrl-20210803.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000102037-21-000027

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