---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000746598-23-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRC"
cik: "0000746598"
company_name: "BRADY CORP"
filed_at: "2023-09-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T00:17:07.314585+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brady Q4 EPS $1.00 record; dividend raised; $100M buyback; FY24 guide $3.70-$3.95

## Summary
- Sales $345.9M (+6.8% YoY, organic +6.9%); diluted EPS $1.00 record, up 23.5% YoY; adjusted EPS $1.04 record.
- Board increased annual dividend to $0.94 per share ($0.235 quarterly), 38th consecutive increase; payable Oct 31 to Oct 10 record.
- Board authorized additional $100M share repurchase; FY23 returned $120.4M to shareholders via dividends and buybacks.
- FY24 GAAP EPS guidance $3.70-$3.95; non-GAAP $3.85-$4.10; capex ~$75M including $55M facility construction.
- Q4 Americas & Asia sales +4.4%, Europe & Australia +11.5%; full-year organic sales +5.5%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000746598-23-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRC
- cik: 0000746598
- company_name: BRADY CORP
- filed_at: 2023-09-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659823000056/0000746598-23-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659823000056/brc-20230830.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000746598-23-000056.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  BRADY CORP reported financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.
  - Period: the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On September 5, 2023, Brady Corporation (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter financial results. A copy of the press release is being furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission as Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/746598/000074659823000056/0000746598-23-000056-index.htm

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