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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000868780-25-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DORM"
cik: "0000868780"
company_name: "Dorman Products, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:17:44.654837+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dorman Products Q3 net sales +7.9% to $543.7M, diluted EPS $2.48 (+38%), reaffirms FY guidance

## Summary
- Net sales $543.7M vs $503.8M (+7.9%); diluted EPS $2.48 vs $1.80 (+38%); adjusted EPS $2.62 vs $1.96 (+34%).
- Gross margin expanded 390 bps to 44.4% from 40.5%, driving profit improvement.
- Light Duty segment profit margin up 470 bps to 23.7%; Specialty Vehicle margin down 420 bps to 12.8%.
- Reaffirmed FY2025 guidance: net sales growth 7-9%, diluted EPS $8.05-$8.35, adjusted EPS $8.60-$8.90.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000868780-25-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DORM
- cik: 0000868780
- company_name: Dorman Products, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/868780/000086878025000051/0000868780-25-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/868780/000086878025000051/dorm-20251027.htm

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