secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     STURM RUGER & CO INC (RGR)
CIK:        0000095029
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-11-05T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001174947-25-001336
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Sturm, Ruger Q3 EPS falls to $0.10 from $0.28; pretax loss $2.1M on new facility costs
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- Net sales $126.8M (+3.7% YoY); diluted EPS $0.10 vs $0.28; pretax loss $2.1M driven by Hebron, KY acquisition costs.
- Recognized $3.0M tax benefit adjustment raising Q3 net income by $0.19/sh; without it, EPS would have been -$0.09/sh.
- Nine-month adjusted diluted EPS $0.65, excluding product rationalization costs, vs adjusted $1.22 in prior year period.
- Quarterly dividend $0.04/sh, payable Nov 28 to holders of record Nov 17, representing ~40% of net income.
- YTD returned $35.6M to shareholders: $9.5M dividends, $26.1M stock buybacks (730,665 shares at avg $35.60).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725001336/0001174947-25-001336-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725001336/form8k-34859_rgr.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-001336

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