secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     INSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC (IIIN)
CIK:        0000764401
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-01-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-22-001272
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Insteel Q1 revenue $178.5M record; EPS $1.18 up 181% YoY; special dividend $2.00
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- Record quarterly revenue of $178.5M, up 49.2% YoY; net earnings $23.1M ($1.18 diluted EPS).
- Gross margin widened 710 bps to 23.7% from 16.6% on higher spreads between selling prices and raw material costs.
- Shipments fell 11.9% YoY due to tight raw material supply; average selling prices rose 69.4%.
- Paid $38.8M special cash dividend ($2.00/share) on Dec 17, 2021, plus regular $0.03/share quarterly dividend.
- Outlook: optimistic with Infrastructure Bill expected to boost demand in late 2022; capex up to $25M in FY2022.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764401/000143774922001272/0001437749-22-001272-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764401/000143774922001272/iiin20220118_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-001272

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