Compx International Inc CIX US Equity
Compx International Inc (NYSE: CIX), an SEC filer in Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware, closed at $31.90, +0.2%, on 2026-08-28, with a market cap of $393M as of 2026-08-27, a trailing P/E of 20.2, a return on equity of 13.7%, a net margin of 12.3% and 3-year sales growth of -1.7%. Institutional ownership, earnings history and filed financials are on the tabs below.
Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-04 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved, from time to time, in various environmental, contractual, product liability, patent (or intellectual property), employment and other claims and disputes incidental to our business. In addition to the information included below, see Note 10 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. In 2024, we were served with four lawsuits by public water companies in South Carolina that seek recovery of future costs to remove perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (known as “PFAS”) from their water supplies. The lawsuits have been consolidated with other PFAS cases before a single judge in Spartanburg, South Carolina and were subsequently removed to federal court. The defendants in the lawsuits include the manufacturers of PFAS products, as well as companies that allegedly used PFAS-containing products in their manufacturing operations. The four lawsuits naming CompX allege that CompX was one of many companies that used products containing PFAS in its manufacturing operations, and that such operations have collectively impacted drinking water supplies used by the water companies. The plaintiffs do not allege that CompX has failed to comply with, or has violated, any environ… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation under that framework, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2025. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon their evaluation, these executive officers have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the date of such evaluation. | ||||||
| 2024-12-31 | 2025-03-05 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved, from time to time, in various environmental, contractual, product liability, patent (or intellectual property), employment and other claims and disputes incidental to our business. In addition to the information included below, see Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. In 2024, we were served with four lawsuits by public water companies in South Carolina that seek recovery of future costs to remove perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (known as “PFAS”) from their water supplies. The lawsuits have been consolidated with other PFAS cases before a single judge in Spartanburg, South Carolina and were subsequently removed to federal court. The defendants in the lawsuits include the manufacturers of PFAS products, as well as companies that allegedly used PFAS-containing products in their manufacturing operations. The four lawsuits naming CompX allege that CompX was one of many companies that used products containing PFAS in its manufacturing operations, and that such operations have collectively impacted drinking water supplies used by the water companies. The plaintiffs do not allege that CompX has failed to comply with, or has violated, any environ… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation under that framework, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2024. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon their evaluation, these executive officers have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the date of such evaluation. | ||||||
| 2023-12-31 | 2024-02-28 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved, from time to time, in various environmental, contractual, product liability, patent (or intellectual property), employment and other claims and disputes incidental to our business. See Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. We currently believe the disposition of all claims and disputes, individually or in the aggregate, should not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation under that framework, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2023. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon their evaluation, these executive officers have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the date of such evaluation. | ||||||
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-03-01 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved, from time to time, in various environmental, contractual, product liability, patent (or intellectual property), employment and other claims and disputes incidental to our business. See Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. We currently believe the disposition of all claims and disputes, individually or in the aggregate, should not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation under that framework, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2022. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon their evaluation, these executive officers have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the date of such evaluation. | ||||||
| 2021-12-31 | 2022-03-02 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We are involved, from time to time, in various environmental, contractual, product liability, patent (or intellectual property), employment and other claims and disputes incidental to our business. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. We currently believe the disposition of all claims and disputes, individually or in the aggregate, should not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. - 10 - Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation under that framework, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2021. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon their evaluation, these executive officers have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the date of such evaluation. | ||||||
5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.
- Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
- Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.