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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000746598-21-000196"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRC"
cik: "0000746598"
company_name: "BRADY CORP"
filed_at: "2021-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T07:12:36.297865+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brady Corp Q1 sales up 16% to $321.5M, EPS $0.67, reaffirms FY22 guidance

## Summary
- Sales $321.5M (+16.0% YoY); organic +7.0%, acquisitions +8.3%, currency +0.7%.
- Diluted EPS $0.67 (GAAP) vs $0.64; adjusted EPS $0.72 vs $0.66, up 9.1%.
- Identification Solutions sales +25.4% (organic +13.2%); Workplace Safety -7.8%.
- FY2022 guidance reaffirmed: adjusted EPS $3.12-$3.32, GAAP EPS $2.90-$3.10.
- Net cash $90.6M; returned $30.5M via dividends and buybacks in Q1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000746598-21-000196
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRC
- cik: 0000746598
- company_name: BRADY CORP
- filed_at: 2021-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659821000196/0000746598-21-000196-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659821000196/brc-20211117.htm

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