Dolby Laboratories, Inc.Class A
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.Class A is classed by the SEC under Patent Owners & Lessors (industry code 6794), based in San Francisco, CA. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-09-26, it reported revenue of $1.3 billion and a profit of $255 million (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a licensing business: prior from its industry code (SEC 6794, Patent Owners & Lessors); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 6.2 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 7.7 out of ten, present 6.2 out of ten, future 4.7 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 9.1 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 91st percentile among 11 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 6.5 out of ten. +3.6% a year over 8 filed years; profitable in 8 of 8. 65th percentile among 10 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Shareholder treatment (past): 8.4 out of ten. Share count shrank 1.5% a year. 67% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 40 sales, 0 purchases. 84th percentile among 6 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 6.9 out of ten. ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 18%: owes 18¢ per asset dollar. 69th percentile among 11 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 7.5 out of ten. top 25% of 11 in its family; net margin 18.9%. 75th percentile among 11 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Leadership (present): 3.9 out of ten. bottom 39% of 9 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026. 39th percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 5.7 out of ten. top 43% of 11 in its family for room to expand. 57th percentile among 11 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Growth drivers (future): 5.3 out of ten. top 47% of 10 in its family for growth drivers. 53rd percentile among 10 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Expectations vs reality (future): 3.1 out of ten. bottom 31% of 9 in its family for expectations against reality. 31st percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18 for the period ended 2025-09-26 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-07-30 for the period ended 2026-06-26 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-07-30 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 4, 2026-10-05. Filings on record since 2004. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Where the revenue comes from
Product and service lines in fiscal 2025: Licensing Brodcast Revenue 32%, Licensing Mobile Revenue 20%, Licensing Other Revenue 18%, Licensing PC Revenue 11%, Licensing CE Revenue 11%, Products and Services 8%. By geography: International 63%, United States 37%. As tagged in its annual report (Form 10-K, filed 2025-11-18).
Who runs it
Whitten, Marc (President and CEO); Yeaman, Kevin J (President and CEO); Gotcher, Peter C (Exec. Chairman of the Board); Park, Robert J (SVP & Chief Financial Officer); Pendleton, Todd (SVP, Chief Marketing Officer); Couling, John D (SVP, Entertainment); Sherman, Mark Andrew (EVP, Gen. Counsel & Secretary); Nicholson, Ryan (VP, CAO and Corp. Controller); Revankar, Shriram (SVP, Advanced Technology Group); Rollins, Emily (director); and 5 more. 15 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-10-05.
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