secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Kimball Electronics, Inc. (KE)
CIK:        0001606757
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-08-12T20:44:05+00:00
Accession:  0001606757-26-000030
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Kimball Electronics Q4 sales $371.6M; FY27 guidance 7-9% growth with Helvoet accretive
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- Q4 net sales $371.6M (+5% seq); operating income $29.1M (7.8% of sales); adjusted op margin 4.9%.
- Debt $116.6M (lowest in 4+ yrs); cash $88.9M; borrowing capacity $322.4M; operating cash $42.4M.
- Q4 medical sales +1% YoY, automotive -3%, industrial -5%; cash conversion days 82 (best in 17 qtrs).
- FY26 net sales $1,431.4M, medical +>10% normalized; adj op margin 4.6%; repurchased $11.9M shares.
- FY27 guidance: net sales $1,535-1,560M (+7-9%), organic growth 3-5%, Helvoet ~$60M, adj op margin 4.4-4.7%.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606757/000160675726000030/0001606757-26-000030-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606757/000160675726000030/ke-20260812.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606757-26-000030

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