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Company Dossier · Consumer Discretionary

Nike Inc.

NKENYSEApparelPORTLAND, US-OR, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Dow 30
  • Russell 1000

What Nike Inc. 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 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to August 31, 2026: $45.9 billion, down 1.2% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to August 31, 2026: $2.11 billion, down 30% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to August 31, 2026: $0.68 billion, up 31% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to May 31, 2026: $0.15 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (October 1, 2026): sentiment -0.30 on a −1 to +1 scale (negative), confidence 0.70 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed July 15, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $0.8 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 1,742 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−185 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 95 (108 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 33, of which 1 read positive and 14 negative.Palanor headline tone

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Nike Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Expanding · Mixed

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Expanding

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Mixed

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Nike Inc.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$7.9B

  • Due within a year $2.0B
  • Longer term $5.9B
  • Default point $4.9B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Aug 31, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

Charts

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

Cash flow

Business

Nike Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

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

$2.1BData 52 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Nike Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data 52 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Nike Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$45.9BData 52 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Nike Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

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

$0.2BData to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Nike Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

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

Data to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Nike Inc.: 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 May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Nike Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

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

Data 52 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Nike Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

−0.30Data 21 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Nike Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.70Data 21 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Nike Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Nike Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

95.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Nike Inc.: insider net buying

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

−$0.8MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Nike Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

1,742Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

News

Business

Nike Inc.: headline tone

Net share of positive headlines, trailing 28 days, −1 to +1

−0.38Data 5 days ago
ImagePalanor calculation from news headlines (tone words only)

In the news

Headlines that name Nike Inc., 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
33 headlines
3% positive · 42% negative
90 days
37 headlines
3% positive · 38% 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 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (ACG ADVOCACY)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: PROTECTIVE UPPER FOR ARTICLE OF FOOTWEARUS 12765641
  5. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: ARTICLE OF FOOTWEARUS 12765633
  6. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: LAYERED THUMBHOLE STRUCTUREUS 12765622
  7. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  8. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  9. Oct 13, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR INCLUDING A SOLE STRUCTUREUS 12757975
  10. Oct 13, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR INCLUDING A SOLE STRUCTUREUS 12757976
  11. Oct 1, 20268-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  12. Sep 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  13. Sep 10, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  14. Sep 10, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  15. Aug 10, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  16. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  17. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC.)second_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  18. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (ERIS GROUP)second_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  19. Jul 15, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  20. Jun 23, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  21. Jun 18, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  22. Mar 9, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  23. Mar 9, 20268-K
    Material agreement terminatedItem 1.02
  24. Mar 5, 20268-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  25. Dec 2, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  26. Sep 11, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  27. Sep 11, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  28. Jul 17, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 1 removed
  29. Jun 18, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  30. May 5, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  31. Mar 10, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  32. Mar 10, 20258-K
    Material agreement terminatedItem 1.02
  33. Jul 25, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed

Peers

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

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Lululemon Athletica LULU$11.1B$1.4BAug 2, 2026
Dollar General DG$43.6B$2.0BJul 31, 2026
Best Buy Co. BBY$42.2B$1.8BAug 1, 2026
Starbucks Corp. SBUX$38.3B$3.6BJun 28, 2026
Lithia Motors LAD$37.9B−$0.5BJun 30, 2026
Coupang CPNG$35.5B$0.1BJun 30, 2026
TJX Companies TJX$62.4B$5.9BAug 1, 2026
D. R. Horton DHI$33.4B$3.2BJun 30, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
320187
LEI
787RXPR0UX0O0XUXPZ81
Wikidata
Q483915
SAM UEI
DTAZQZ11J5C5

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 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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