ACCO
Acco Brands CorporationNYSE
Industrials • Business Equipment & Supplies
Factor tilt: Small-Cap Value
$5.06-3.80%
Close Nov 6, 2026
- Market cap
- $466.82M
- 1 month
- +13.5%
- 3 months
- +16.3%
- 1 year
- +35.7%
- 52-week range
- $2.84$5.51
- Dividend, last 12 mo
- $0.30 · 5.93% yield
- Last ex-date
- Aug 21, 2026 · $0.075
- Short interest
- 7.4% of float6.5M shares · settled Oct 15, 2026 · +1.9% since Sep 30, 2026 · FINRA
Fundamentals · trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026
- Revenue
- $1.57B
- Net income
- $66.3M
- Free cash flow
- $114M
- Book value
- $690.3M
- Total debt
- $112.5M
- P/E
- 7×
- Price / sales
- 0.3×
- Price / book
- 0.7×
- FCF yield
- +24.4%
- Net margin
- +4.2%
EODHD (TTM) · as of Nov 8, 2026
End-of-day close from stored market data, not a live quote.
About Acco Brands Corporation
ACCO Brands Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets consumer, school, technology, and office products in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. It operates in two segments, ACCO Brands Americas and ACCO Brands International.
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The company offers note taking products, gaming and computer accessories, planners, workspace machines, tools and essentials, and dry erase boards and accessories, as well as filing and organization products, and writing and art products; and shredding, laminating and binding machines, stapling, punching, planners, dry erase boards, and do-it-yourself tools. It sells its products under the Five Star, PowerA, Tilibra, AT-A-GLANCE, Kensington, Quartet, GBC, Mead, Swingline, Barrilito, Foroni, Hilroy, Leitz, Rapid, Esselte, Rexel, PowerA, NOBO, Franken, Derwent, Marbig, Artline, and Spirax brands. The company distributes its products through various channels, including mass retailers, e-tailers, discount, drug/grocery, and variety chains, warehouse clubs, hardware and specialty stores, independent office product dealers, office superstores, wholesalers, contract stationers, and technology specialty businesses, as well as sells products directly through its e-commerce platform and direct sales organization. The company was formerly known as ACCO World Corporation and changed its name to ACCO Brands Corporation in August 2005. ACCO Brands Corporation was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
- Website
- accobrands.com
- Headquarters
- Lake Zurich, IL, United States
- Employees
- 4,700
- Listed
- Aug 17, 2005
- Fiscal year ends
- December
Company profile from EODHD, stored Nov 2, 2026.
Quarterly results
The last 8 fiscal quarters from EODHD’s latest stored vendor-normalized figures. These may include restatements. Year over year compares the same quarter a year earlier.
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026filed Oct 30, 2026 | $380.3M | -0.9% | 35.7% | $30.6M | $11.5M |
| Jun 2026filed Jul 31, 2026 | $415.1M | +5.1% | 32.3% | $30.3M | $14.1M |
| Mar 2026filed May 1, 2026 | $343.7M | +8.3% | 31.1% | -$10.4M | $19.4M |
| Dec 2025filed Mar 9, 2026 | $428.8M | -4.3% | 31.1% | $49.4M | $21.3M |
| Sep 2025filed Oct 31, 2025 | $383.7M | -8.8% | 30.4% | $29.1M | $4.0M |
| Jun 2025filed Aug 1, 2025 | $394.8M | -9.9% | 30.1% | $36.1M | $29.2M |
| Mar 2025filed May 2, 2025 | $317.4M | -11.6% | 27.2% | -$6.4M | -$13.2M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 21, 2025 | $448.1M | -8.3% | 34.7% | $42.0M | $20.6M |
Fiscal years · last 6
| Fiscal year | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025filed Mar 9, 2026 | $1.5B | -8.5% | 29.8% | $108.2M | $41.3M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 21, 2025 | $1.7B | -9.1% | 33.3% | -$37.0M | -$101.6M |
| Dec 2023filed Feb 23, 2024 | $1.8B | -5.9% | 32.6% | $44.7M | -$21.8M |
| Dec 2022filed Feb 24, 2023 | $1.9B | -3.8% | 28.4% | $34.8M | -$13.2M |
| Dec 2021filed Feb 23, 2022 | $2.0B | +22.4% | 30.4% | $151.0M | $101.9M |
| Dec 2020filed Feb 26, 2021 | $1.7B | -15.4% | 29.7% | $112.4M | $62.0M |
Annual cash generation
Does profit turn into cash? Compare ACCO’s accounting profit with operating cash flow and capital spending. Amounts are in USD.
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $41.3M
- Operating cash flow
- $68.7M
- Capital spending
- $17.9M
- Free cash flow
- $50.8M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$101.6M
- Operating cash flow
- $148.2M
- Capital spending
- $15.9M
- Free cash flow
- $132.3M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$21.8M
- Operating cash flow
- $128.7M
- Capital spending
- $13.8M
- Free cash flow
- $114.9M
Earlier cash-flow years
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$13.2M
- Operating cash flow
- $77.6M
- Capital spending
- $16.5M
- Free cash flow
- $61.1M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $101.9M
- Operating cash flow
- $159.6M
- Capital spending
- $21.2M
- Free cash flow
- $138.4M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $62.0M
- Operating cash flow
- $119.2M
- Capital spending
- $15.3M
- Free cash flow
- $103.9M
If you hold or are researching ACCO, compare cash generation and investment needs with your thesis. Working capital and non-cash charges can separate profit from cash. Capital spending can reduce free cash flow while earnings rise. For a long or short position, that gap alone does not predict a price move.
Cash-flow source and meaning
Source: EODHD annual financial statements, latest stored vendor-normalized figures. These may include restatements and may differ from the filer’s own XBRL. A filing date is not the knowledge date of this version of the values.
Free cash flow is the vendor’s reported figure, shown only when it agrees with operating cash flow less capital spending recorded as a positive outflow. It is not cash guaranteed for dividends or buybacks, and it does not subtract every financing obligation. Missing or sign-incompatible inputs are not filled in. An unlabelled currency is used only for a confirmed domestic USD filer. These are annual statements, not forecasts or an originally-filed history.
Company Quality Grade
How steadily did the business compound its per-share book value with dividends over 40 quarters? This historical measure is not a stock-price return or a forecast.
As of · Window to
Does not meet the historical compounder rule
- Book with dividends · annual growth
- 4.5%
- Consistency of fitted trend · R²
- 0.639
- Recent / whole-window slope
- -0.27×
Basis: total common book; the tangible starting base was too small, so the whole window uses the fallback basis. Dividends are reinvested at book value, not at market prices. R² near 1 means a steadier fitted trend; it does not establish accounting quality.
Composite percentile: 14.6% among 288 admitted non-financial issuers in this captured run. The composite combines growth and consistency percentiles. This is not a comparison with every listed company.
The compounder rule requires a top-decile composite within the tangible-book eligible pool, positive slope and no detected decline. Total-common-book fallback rows cannot qualify. A decline means the 90% interval for the recent 12-quarter / full-window slope ratio lies below 1; this row does not detect a decline. An absent decline is not proof that growth is accelerating.
If you hold ACCO, use this to question the durability of the business behind your investment case, alongside its filings and valuation. A withheld grade is a data or method limit, not a sell signal. For a short position, it does not predict timing, borrowing costs or downside. It does not measure your account’s return.
Method, filing sources and publication receipt
Source: SEC first-filed XBRL. Midas Edge API’s published Green Compounders method uses only filings public by the as-of date, split-adjusted shares and the original filed values. Restatements do not replace them. Issuer pools and entity types reflect the SEC submissions captured for this run, not historical classifications at each as-of date.
The primary form fits log book value with reinvested dividends against time. The method checks the starting book and market-cap floors and excludes identified non-reliance/enforcement windows. Its cohort is fixed at capture time, so historical percentiles have capture and survival limits. It does not check audit-opinion going-concern text. This grade is separate from InsiderIQ, HolderIQ and NetCredibility.
Input filings (42 in this window): 0000712034-16-000080; 0000712034-16-000114; 0000712034-16-000130. The links show up to three of the input filings.
Method labels: compounder_ineligible:fallback_book_basis, going_concern_unchecked, no_dividend_fact_zero, preferred_untagged_zero, red_finding_basis_d1_enforcement_naming_issuer, tangible_base_small, tbv_drop_gt15pct_unexplained
- Parameters
- pg-g2-params.v17
- Plane
- sha256:841c1bb46826c45b96472bf9adff6a93c8ce5f5392636cff297045298e9bf517
- Grade row SHA-256
- sha256:973f65a8769450a6c175587727ef597c46471c616a56d34d67debdc9845a6d66
- Manifest SHA-256
- sha256:c94c0931ffa7d9818ad0d34110b400f347a53da8a9c7d9aee1013095384d6a8a
- Engine SHA-256
- sha256:defa2e17f100b92a30576940d1632532b5cc4f37a2cb4bcc7fcc881856417811
- Hand-check receipt SHA-256
- sha256:03dd742b7b83e1130b4c01f9beaaf2671b20562c447a337dd047a41ad675ed3c
Short-interest history
FINRA reports open short positions for a settlement date. The publication date is later. These are reported positions, with a separate date for each observation.
Compare the reported short exposure around the dates you bought, sold or watched ACCO. A long position benefits from price rises; a short position benefits from falls. A change in these counts does not predict either move.
Settlement Oct 15, 2026
6,543,025 shares short
+120,139 shares (+1.9%) vs Sep 30, 2026
7.4% of the stored float. Published Oct 26, 2026.
Settlement Sep 30, 2026
6,422,886 shares short
-460,034 shares (-6.7%) vs Sep 15, 2026
7.3% of the stored float. Published Oct 9, 2026.
Settlement Sep 15, 2026
6,882,920 shares short
+570,255 shares (+9%) vs Aug 31, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Sep 24, 2026.
Settlement Aug 31, 2026
6,312,665 shares short
+402,540 shares (+6.8%) vs Aug 14, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Sep 10, 2026.
Settlement Aug 14, 2026
5,910,125 shares short
-266,680 shares (-4.3%) vs Jul 31, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Aug 25, 2026.
Settlement Jul 31, 2026
6,176,805 shares short
-204,807 shares (-3.2%) vs Jul 15, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Aug 11, 2026.
Change = this settlement’s shares short − the previous recorded settlement’s shares short; percentage change divides by that earlier count. A zero earlier count has no percentage change. Split-spanning counts are left uncompared. Float percentages use the stored settlement observation, not today’s float.
Source: stored FINRA equity short-interest records, up to six settlements from the last 240 days. FINRA data and reporting dates · How to read short interest
Dividends and stock splits
See the recorded cash amounts and dates behind ACCO’s income, and the splits that change its share count. Dates below are stored event records, not confirmation of a payment to your account.
Cash-dividend records
USD 0.075 per share
Ex-dividend date: Nov 20, 2026 (future recorded date)
Recorded pay date: Dec 9, 2026 (pending)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.075 per share
Ex-dividend date: Aug 21, 2026
Recorded pay date: Sep 9, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.075 per share
Ex-dividend date: May 22, 2026
Recorded pay date: Jun 17, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.075 per share
Ex-dividend date: Mar 20, 2026
Recorded pay date: Mar 26, 2026 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.075 per share
Ex-dividend date: Nov 21, 2025
Recorded pay date: Dec 10, 2025 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
USD 0.075 per share
Ex-dividend date: Aug 22, 2025
Recorded pay date: Sep 10, 2025 (past date)
Cash dividend · Polygon event record
Up to six Polygon cash-dividend events, including recorded ex-dates within the next 120 days. Amounts retain their recorded currency and decimal precision. Historical amounts are not restated to a common split basis, annualized, or converted to dollars.
For a long holding, compare the ex-date with when you held the shares and check the pay date against your broker’s cash history. Owning the stock today does not establish past entitlement. For a short holding, a dividend can create a payment obligation to the share lender.
Ex-dates and special dividend rules · Short-sale dividend obligations · Dividend data definitions
Split history
3 for 2 · forward split
Effective Sep 1, 1989
Each 2 pre-split shares become 3 post-split shares.
Source: EODHD
3 for 2 · forward split
Effective Jun 7, 1988
Each 2 pre-split shares become 3 post-split shares.
Source: EODHD
3 for 2 · forward split
Effective Sep 25, 1987
Each 2 pre-split shares become 3 post-split shares.
Source: EODHD
Up to six stored split dates through Nov 9, 2026. Equivalent vendor ratios are combined; conflicting ratios are left out. This history may be incomplete.
A split changes the share count and per-share price basis; it does not by itself add investment value. Put your holding’s earlier and later share counts on the same basis before comparing them. This applies to both long shares and shares owed on a short position.
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Smart money context
Holder IQ: MEDIUM
24 smart-money holders: institutions with a high Holder IQ
Q2 2026, filed Oct 29, 2026
Smart-money 13F trend: distributing (heavy)
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Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
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Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Largest 13-F holders · Q2 2026
198 filers reported a long position in ACCO for Q2 2026. 13-F holdings are filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends.
The top 10 hold
59.1%
of the 75.4M shares 13-F filers reported
Moves vs Q1 2026
5 added5 trimmed
Net shares held
+0.2%
across the 10 holders with a comparable Q1 2026 book
| Rank | Holder | Value | Shares | Shares vs Q1 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock, Inc. | $36.9M · 8.9M shares | 8.9M | +17.5% |
| 2 | Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC | $30.5M · 7M shares | 7M | -9.1% |
| 3 | Capital Management Corp | $29.5M · 7.1M shares | 7.1M | +1.5% |
| 4 | Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | $18.2M · 4.4M shares | 4.4M | -1.5% |
| 5 | Vanguard Capital Management LLC | $16.3M · 3.9M shares | 3.9M | +0.1% |
| 6 | American Century Companies Inc | $12.3M · 3M shares | 3M | -17.9% |
| 7 | LSV Asset Management | $12.1M · 2.9M shares | 2.9M | -1.5% |
| 8 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc | $11.4M · 2.7M shares | 2.7M | -11.7% |
| 9 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | $10.1M · 2.4M shares | 2.4M | +9% |
| 10 | State Street Corp | $9.4M · 2.3M shares | 2.3M | +13.6% |
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Holders of more than 5% of ACCO file with the SEC within days. A 13D holder may seek to influence the company; a 13G holder is passive. Each holder’s latest filing from the last three years.
| Filed | Holder | % of class |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC13G · passive · amended | 7% |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Capital Management Corp13G · passive · amended | 7.6% |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Vanguard Group Inc13G · passive · amended | 0%under 5% |
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