---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-025091"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NPK"
cik: "0000080172"
company_name: "NATIONAL PRESTO INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2022-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T23:02:29.677697+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# National Presto Q3 net earnings double to $8.9M despite sales drop

## Summary
- Q3 net sales $69.7M, down 20.1% YoY due to lower Defense shipments.
- Net earnings $8.9M ($1.26 EPS) vs $4.1M ($0.58) YoY, up 116%.
- Defense segment operating earnings fell $5.8M (48.2%) on supply chain issues.
- Housewares/Small Appliance returned to profitability aided by price increases and lower ocean freight.
- Safety segment continued to report a loss; higher interest rates boosted portfolio earnings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-025091
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NPK
- cik: 0000080172
- company_name: NATIONAL PRESTO INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2022-10-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80172/000143774922025091/0001437749-22-025091-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80172/000143774922025091/npk20221028_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-025091.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  NATIONAL PRESTO INDUSTRIES INC reported financial results for fiscal quarter ended October 2, 2022.
  - Period: fiscal quarter ended October 2, 2022
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On October 28, 2022, the Registrant issued a press release regarding the registrant’s results of operations for the fiscal quarter ended October 2, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80172/000143774922025091/0001437749-22-025091-index.htm

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