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Issuer:     WINMARK CORP (WINA)
CIK:        0000908315
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-10-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000908315-25-000036
Event type: dividend
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Winmark Q3 EPS $3.02 flat YoY; declares $10 special dividend
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- Q3 net income $11.14M ($3.02 diluted EPS) vs $11.12M ($3.03) prior year; nine-month net income $31.69M ($8.61) up 4.3%.
- 1,377 operational franchises; 77 awarded but not open; over 2,800 available territories.
- Quarterly dividend of $0.96/share payable Dec 1, 2025 to record Nov 12, 2025.
- Special dividend of $10.00/share (~$35.6M total) payable same schedule, funded from cash on hand.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908315/000090831525000036/0000908315-25-000036-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908315/000090831525000036/wina-20251015x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000908315-25-000036

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