Fuller H B Co
Fuller H B Co (FUL) is listed on NYSE and classified in Specialty Chemicals, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Saint Paul, United States and has 7,100 employees. The company is worth $2.74B and trades at 14.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 19.1x. Revenue was $3.47B in fiscal 2025, down 2.7% from the year before. Net income was $151.97M. The share price is 25.8% below its 52-week high of $68.63. It pays a dividend yielding 1.93%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $6.46M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders bought $1.15M of its stock on the open market and sold none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -29.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $774.09▼ -22.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $59.46 | $67.48 | $81.41 | $71.62 | $81.00 | $51.88 | $51.57 | $42.67 | $53.87 | $48.31 | $36.47 | $44.53 | $52.04 | $34.82 | $23.11 | $20.52 | $22.75 | $16.11 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 3.1% a year plus a 1.9% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 19.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 21.8 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| BCCBOISE CASCADE Co | $78.29 | 25.7x | 1.3x | 1.14% | 5.06% | $2.73B |
| AAUCAllied Gold Corp | $19.83 | — | 5.0x | 0.00% | -2.89% | $2.76B |
| HWKNHawkins Inc | $133.17 |
| P/E | 21.8x | 21.6x | 29.3x | 31.4x | 22.0x | 27.3x | 22.0x | 20.5x | 13.0x | 46.8x | 20.4x | 21.6x | 45.9x | 27.5x | 14.0x | 12.9x | 14.4x | 13.4x | 44.8x |
| P/S | 0.9x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.6x |
| P/B | 2.1x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 2.5x | 2.4x | 2.7x | 2.0x | 2.2x | 1.9x | 2.6x | 2.6x | 2.1x | 2.5x | 2.8x | 2.2x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 1.4x |
| EPS | $2.75 | $2.30 | $2.59 | $3.26 | $2.97 | $2.36 | $2.52 | $3.29 | $1.15 | $2.37 | $1.69 | $0.97 | $1.89 | $2.48 | $1.79 | $1.43 | $1.70 | $0.36 |
| Dividend yield | 1.21% | 1.56% | 1.30% | 0.99% | 1.03% | 0.82% | 1.25% | 1.23% | 1.44% | 1.10% | 1.14% | 1.40% | 1.03% | 0.74% | 0.95% | 1.28% | 1.35% | 1.19% | 1.63% |
| Payout | 24.20% | 33.75% | 38.00% | 31.08% | 22.64% | 22.46% | 27.50% | 25.20% | 18.69% | 51.30% | 23.21% | 30.18% | 47.42% | 20.37% | 13.31% | 16.48% | 19.46% | 15.88% | 73.06% |
| Profit margin | 4.62% | 4.37% | 3.65% | 4.13% | 4.81% | 4.92% | 4.43% | 4.52% | 5.63% | 2.58% | 5.81% | 4.16% | 2.37% | 4.73% | 6.66% | 6.17% | 5.64% | 6.78% | 1.36% |
| ROE | 10.26% | 7.59% | 7.12% | 8.26% | 11.20% | 10.11% | 8.96% | 10.70% | 14.85% | 5.65% | 12.97% | 9.93% | 5.59% | 10.40% | 16.14% | 12.64% | 11.22% | 14.15% | 3.51% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 6.0% a year against a 8.9% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-12.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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