---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-025694"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEG"
cik: "0000058492"
company_name: "LEGGETT & PLATT INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T00:34:51.121999+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Leggett & Platt reports Q4 EPS $0.39, down 49% YoY; guides 2023 EPS $1.50-$1.90

## Summary
- Q4 EPS $0.39, down $0.38 YoY; sales $1.2B, down 10% (12% volume decline).
- Full year 2022 EPS $2.27, down $0.67 YoY; record sales $5.15B (+1%).
- 2023 guidance: EPS $1.50-$1.90, sales $4.8-$5.2B; EBIT margin 7.5%-8.0%.
- Q4 Bedding Products sales -19% YoY; EBIT down $46M on volume drop and production cuts.
- Net debt/Adj. EBITDA 2.66x; operating cash flow $441M (+63%); annual dividend raised to $1.76.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-025694
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEG
- cik: 0000058492
- company_name: LEGGETT & PLATT INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58492/000119312523025694/0001193125-23-025694-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58492/000119312523025694/d460798d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-025694.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  LEGGETT & PLATT INC reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2022.
  - Period: the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2022
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On February 6, 2023, Leggett & Platt, Incorporated issued a press release announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2022 and related matters.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58492/000119312523025694/0001193125-23-025694-index.htm

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