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Kirby Corporation

KEXNYSEMarine TransportationCarson City, US-NV, USMid capWebsite ↗
  • Russell 1000
  • MidCap 400

What Kirby Corporation is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 23, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $3.49 billion, up 6.7% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.48 billion, up 85% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.23 billion, down 28% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $0.35 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 29, 2026): sentiment 0.60 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.80 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 1 outlook figure raised, 0 lowered, 2 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed February 17, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q2 2026: $2.6 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 467 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+32 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 3 (1 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Company Posture covers S&P 500 companies.

No bond term sheets or tagged debt on file for Kirby Corporation yet.

Kirby Corporation's rows in Palanor's event trackers over the last three years, its own and its subsidiaries': FDA decisions, deal filings, IPO filings, private raises, insider clusters and 13D stakes, and distress filings. Each links to its filing or FDA record.

Insider & Activist

  1. May 15, 2026Selling cluster$2.6M · DRAGG RONALD A, Husted Amy D., O'Neil Christian G. and 1 more
  2. Mar 2, 2026Selling cluster$8.9M · DAVIS BARRY E, Husted Amy D., Grzebinski David W and 2 more
  3. Feb 10, 2026Selling cluster$1.4M · DRAGG RONALD A, Woodruff William Matthew, MILLER SCOTT P
  4. Nov 21, 2025Selling cluster$4.8M · STEWART RICHARD ROSS, DRAGG RONALD A, Grzebinski David W and 1 more
  5. Nov 20, 2024Selling cluster$3.3M · DRAGG RONALD A, O'Neil Christian G., STEWART RICHARD ROSS

Distress

  1. Mar 30, 2026Credit agreement amendment
    Form 8-K, Item 1.01, 2.03 ↗as filed: KIRBY CORP

Records as filed. An FDA date is the agency's goal date; a filing records a step or an event, not what follows. Nothing here is a forecast or advice.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

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Kirby Corporation: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.48BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$3.5BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

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Kirby Corporation: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.35BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

11.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

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Kirby Corporation: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

1.0Data 23 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.60Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Kirby Corporation: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.80Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Kirby Corporation: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: revenue/Ton Mile

KPI Ledger, as reported in the company's results releases, cents

11.2Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataKPI Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: ton Miles

KPI Ledger, as reported in the company's results releases, count

3.9BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataKPI Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: delay Days

KPI Ledger, as reported in the company's results releases, count

2,567Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataKPI Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

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Kirby Corporation: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

3.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
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Kirby Corporation: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$2.6MData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Kirby Corporation: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

467.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Kirby Corporation, with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative
90 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 14, 2026Lobbying
  2. Oct 8, 20268-K
  3. Jul 8, 2026Lobbying
  4. Apr 30, 20268-K
  5. Apr 30, 20268-K
  6. Apr 7, 2026Lobbying
  7. Mar 30, 20268-K
  8. Feb 20, 20268-K
  9. Feb 17, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  10. Jan 5, 2026Lobbying
  11. Oct 1, 2025Lobbying
  12. Jul 9, 2025Lobbying
  13. May 1, 20258-K
  14. Apr 14, 2025Lobbying
  15. Feb 18, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 removed
  16. Jan 7, 2025Lobbying
  17. Feb 20, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed

Peers

Companies in the same sector in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Gates Corporation GTES$3.5B$0.4BJun 27, 2026
BWX Technologies BWXT$3.5B$0.3BJun 30, 2026
Sterling Infrastructure STRL$3.4B$0.5BJun 30, 2026
IDEX Corporation IEX$3.6B$0.6BJun 30, 2026
Middleby MIDD$3.4B$0.6BJul 4, 2026
Saia SAIA$3.4B$0.3BJun 30, 2026
Modine Manufacturing MOD$3.4B$0.1BJun 30, 2026
Nextpower NXT$3.6B$0.6BJul 3, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
56047
Wikidata
Q18151094

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 23, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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