# Myers Industries (MYE.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/MYE

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:30:30.828Z. Financial observations: FY1996–FY2026.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: $31.03 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low $14.00 per share, central $15.81 per share, high $18.22 per share. Buy at or below the central value $15.81 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:30:30.828Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 6.4% at the stated quote. About 6.4% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; US 10-year bond 5.1% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 6 revenue declines in the last 10 years

- more than 5 revenue declines in ten years

- operating margin variation exceeds 0.35

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 6

- Years with a net loss: 2

- Operating margin variation: 0.42×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 0.05×

- FY2018: 0.01×

- FY2019: 0.07×

- FY2020: 0.10×

- FY2021: 0.06×

- FY2022: 0.09×

- FY2023: 0.09×

- FY2024: 0.05×

- FY2025: 0.09×

- LTM to Jun 2026: 0.13×

### moat: fail

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 18.0%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: 7.2%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -1.3 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 32.1%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 33.4%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 2.4%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: 10.2%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 8.2%

- FY2018: 3.6%

- FY2019: 23.0%

- FY2020: 22.7%

- FY2021: 15.7%

- FY2022: 23.9%

- FY2023: 20.4%

- FY2024: 7.2%

- FY2025: 15.6%

- LTM to Jun 2026: 20.3%

### economics: pass

- Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: 1.20×

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: $221M

- Net income, five-year total: $185M

- Return on incremental invested capital: >100%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: 0.7 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 5.1 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 17.3%

Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: 1.08×

- FY2022: 1.00×

- FY2023: 1.00×

- FY2024: 2.97×

- FY2025: 1.56×

### management: pass

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2016 to 2025 (9 years)

- buybacks leaned toward cheaper years (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 4.9% vs 15.6%

- Per-share earnings: 0.04 to 0.93 (three-year endpoint medians)

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 2.0%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 0.9%

- Market cap gain: $271M

- Cumulative retained earnings: $59M

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 2.0%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 0.9%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2016

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value growth: 50.5%

- Per-share value change: $0.89

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: $0.04

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: $0.93

- Buybacks concentrated in cheaper years (correlation): 0.45

- Average buyback yield: 0.2%

- Buyback history: 8 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: No

- Acquisition spending: $339M

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: $234M

- ROIC, first three-year median: 4.9%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 15.6%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $0.04

- FY2017: -$0.32

- FY2018: -$0.10

- FY2019: $0.68

- FY2020: $1.02

- FY2021: $0.92

- FY2022: $1.64

- FY2023: $1.32

- FY2024: $0.19

- FY2025: $0.93

### accounting: pass

- restructuring or one-time charges in at least three of five years

- Sloan accruals: -6.1%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 1.04×

- Restructuring years, last five: 5

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 4.1%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 2.48×

- Accounting red flags: 1

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 1.38×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -8.6%

- FY2017: -15.3%

- FY2018: -18.5%

- FY2019: -8.5%

- FY2020: -2.4%

- FY2021: -2.3%

- FY2022: -2.3%

- FY2023: -6.9%

- FY2024: -8.4%

- FY2025: -6.1%

## Holders

- [Richard Pzena](https://gigainvestors.com/PIM): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

## Price story

Price needs cash profits to grow 9.7% a year for ten years · sales -8.8%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:14.219Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

Price needs cash profits to grow 9.7% a year for ten years

### Sales · FY2025–2026

sales -8.8%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm; observed 2026-03-05.

- FY2017: $547M 

- FY2018: $567M 

- FY2019: $516M 

- FY2020: $510M 

- FY2021: $761M 

- FY2022: $900M 

- FY2023: $813M 

- FY2024: $836M 

- FY2025: $826M 

- FY2026: $753M 

### Gross margin · FY2026

gross margin 33.8%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm; observed 2026-03-05.

- FY2017: 28.8% 

- FY2018: 31.6% 

- FY2019: 33.2% 

- FY2020: 33.7% 

- FY2021: 27.9% 

- FY2022: 31.6% 

- FY2023: 31.9% 

- FY2024: 32.4% 

- FY2025: 33.4% 

- FY2026: 33.8% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in packaging & containers; annual sales are USD 825.7 million.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-05); FY2025: revenue 825742000; grossProfit 276054000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 31.9% to 33.4% during 2023–25; it earns 18% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 31.9%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 32.4%.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-05); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 33.4%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); 10-year return on capital observations [[2017,0.08187741596051619],[2018,0.036244778171434615],[2019,0.22966027973540323],[2020,0.2273659707874321],[2021,0.1574194289361958],[2022,0.23913073333312432],[2023,0.20396892742557468],[2024,0.07163013559481603],[2025,0.1564241430327881],[2026,0.20347833857095451]]; median 0.18044888375357515. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back USD 2.5 million of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2016: growth capex 0; upkeep 12523000; cash acquisitions 0; owner earnings 20326000. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2017: growth capex 0; upkeep 5814000; owner earnings 13135000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2018: growth capex 0; upkeep 5123000; owner earnings 17651000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2019: growth capex 0; upkeep 10294000; owner earnings 37622000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2020: growth capex 0; upkeep 13421000; owner earnings 43878000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2021: growth capex 0; upkeep 17867000; owner earnings 36092999. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2022: growth capex 3076000; upkeep 21216000; owner earnings 60267000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.05103954071050492.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2023: growth capex 0; upkeep 22855000; owner earnings 48798000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); FY2024: growth capex 0; upkeep 24435000; owner earnings 21359000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-05); FY2025: growth capex 0; upkeep 19553000; owner earnings 54652000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); Dividend observations: [[2016,16221000],[2017,16341000],[2018,17862000],[2019,19316000],[2020,19425000],[2021,19596000],[2022,19797000],[2023,20240000],[2024,20432000],[2025,20494000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-05); FY2025: cash repurchases 2525000 USD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 1.4% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-15); MYE.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 1.357 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-15.

### What the price says

The price assumes cash profits grow 9.7% yearly over ten years; actual growth was 4.7%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-05); Ten-year compound average after fade. Initial solved rate 0.12691059556384443. Price 31.03; FX 1; discount 0.1; same standard ten-year fade to terminal 0.03. FY2015 owner earnings/share 0.9185393611551149 → FY2025 1.4549969021547329. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (USD per share)

- 2016-10: $12.05 per share

- 2016-11: $14.15 per share

- 2016-12: $14.30 per share

- 2017-01: $13.80 per share

- 2017-02: $14.05 per share

- 2017-03: $15.85 per share

- 2017-04: $16.30 per share

- 2017-05: $16.90 per share

- 2017-06: $17.95 per share

- 2017-07: $17.00 per share

- 2017-08: $18.80 per share

- 2017-09: $20.95 per share

- 2017-10: $21.60 per share

- 2017-11: $21.35 per share

- 2017-12: $19.50 per share

- 2018-01: $21.00 per share

- 2018-02: $18.95 per share

- 2018-03: $21.15 per share

- 2018-04: $23.30 per share

- 2018-05: $19.60 per share

- 2018-06: $19.20 per share

- 2018-07: $21.55 per share

- 2018-08: $22.25 per share

- 2018-09: $23.25 per share

- 2018-10: $15.86 per share

- 2018-11: $16.50 per share

- 2018-12: $15.11 per share

- 2019-01: $16.26 per share

- 2019-02: $19.08 per share

- 2019-03: $17.11 per share

- 2019-04: $17.89 per share

- 2019-05: $16.92 per share

- 2019-06: $19.27 per share

- 2019-07: $16.17 per share

- 2019-08: $16.83 per share

- 2019-09: $17.65 per share

- 2019-10: $16.93 per share

- 2019-11: $16.55 per share

- 2019-12: $16.68 per share

- 2020-01: $16.18 per share

- 2020-02: $13.57 per share

- 2020-03: $10.75 per share

- 2020-04: $12.36 per share

- 2020-05: $13.61 per share

- 2020-06: $14.55 per share

- 2020-07: $15.06 per share

- 2020-08: $15.30 per share

- 2020-09: $13.23 per share

- 2020-10: $14.34 per share

- 2020-11: $16.99 per share

- 2020-12: $20.78 per share

- 2021-01: $20.05 per share

- 2021-02: $22.14 per share

- 2021-03: $19.76 per share

- 2021-04: $22.56 per share

- 2021-05: $22.03 per share

- 2021-06: $21.00 per share

- 2021-07: $21.18 per share

- 2021-08: $22.80 per share

- 2021-09: $19.57 per share

- 2021-10: $20.58 per share

- 2021-11: $19.48 per share

- 2021-12: $20.01 per share

- 2022-01: $18.07 per share

- 2022-02: $16.62 per share

- 2022-03: $21.60 per share

- 2022-04: $21.93 per share

- 2022-05: $23.80 per share

- 2022-06: $22.73 per share

- 2022-07: $24.33 per share

- 2022-08: $19.32 per share

- 2022-09: $16.47 per share

- 2022-10: $20.29 per share

- 2022-11: $23.34 per share

- 2022-12: $22.23 per share

- 2023-01: $24.08 per share

- 2023-02: $25.84 per share

- 2023-03: $21.43 per share

- 2023-04: $18.95 per share

- 2023-05: $18.70 per share

- 2023-06: $19.43 per share

- 2023-07: $19.61 per share

- 2023-08: $18.81 per share

- 2023-09: $17.93 per share

- 2023-10: $16.77 per share

- 2023-11: $17.62 per share

- 2023-12: $19.55 per share

- 2024-01: $18.75 per share

- 2024-02: $19.23 per share

- 2024-03: $23.17 per share

- 2024-04: $21.90 per share

- 2024-05: $15.80 per share

- 2024-06: $13.38 per share

- 2024-07: $14.90 per share

- 2024-08: $15.29 per share

- 2024-09: $13.82 per share

- 2024-10: $11.78 per share

- 2024-11: $11.60 per share

- 2024-12: $11.04 per share

- 2025-01: $12.04 per share

- 2025-02: $10.96 per share

- 2025-03: $11.93 per share

- 2025-04: $10.50 per share

- 2025-05: $12.69 per share

- 2025-06: $14.49 per share

- 2025-07: $14.65 per share

- 2025-08: $16.74 per share

- 2025-09: $16.94 per share

- 2025-10: $17.33 per share

- 2025-11: $18.06 per share

- 2025-12: $18.72 per share

- 2026-01: $20.67 per share

- 2026-02: $22.37 per share

- 2026-03: $21.18 per share

- 2026-04: $20.61 per share

- 2026-05: $22.80 per share

- 2026-06: $35.31 per share

- 2026-07: $34.16 per share

- 2026-08: $32.09 per share

- 2026-09: $30.77 per share

- 2026-10: $31.03 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2016: low $8.21 per share, central $9.34 per share, high $10.84 per share

- FY2017: low $7.13 per share, central $8.11 per share, high $9.42 per share

- FY2018: low $7.19 per share, central $7.99 per share, high $9.05 per share

- FY2019: low $7.59 per share, central $8.38 per share, high $9.44 per share

- FY2020: low $6.16 per share, central $6.94 per share, high $7.98 per share

- FY2021: low $10.92 per share, central $12.41 per share, high $14.40 per share

- FY2022: low $18.04 per share, central $20.51 per share, high $23.80 per share

- FY2023: low $16.43 per share, central $18.64 per share, high $21.59 per share

- FY2024: low $15.08 per share, central $17.10 per share, high $19.80 per share

- FY2025: low $15.18 per share, central $17.17 per share, high $19.82 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original 10-K filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69488/000119312526092521/mye-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-03-05.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.