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what it is
It makes doors, windows, and related building products for homes and remodels.
how it gets paid
Last year Jeld-Wen made $3.2B in revenue. Doors was the main engine at $2.2B, or 68% of sales.
why growth slowed
Revenue fell 14.9% last year. The $6.80 loss per share matters more than the $2.4B sales rebound.
what just happened
JELD-WEN posted $2.4B of revenue and still lost $6.80 a share.
At a glance
C+ balance sheet — struggling to keep the lights on
25/100 earnings predictability — expect surprises
1.3% return on capital — nothing to write home about
-$7.30 fy2025 eps est
$2B fy2026 rev est
xvary composite: 28/100 — weak
What they do
It makes doors, windows, and related building products for homes and remodels.
Your house still needs doors, and JELD sells 68% of revenue that way. The company runs 79 manufacturing and distribution facilities in 14 countries. That reach beats a local shop on delivery, but it also leaves you holding the fixed-cost bill when volumes fall.
How they make money
$3.2B
annual revenue · their business grew -14.9% last year
Doors
$2.2B
Windows
$0.6B
Ancillary products and services
$0.4B
The products that matter
interior and exterior door manufacturing
Doors
core to a $3.2B business
Doors are one of the categories investors come here for, but the current snapshot data does not break revenue out by product. That means you need to lean harder on companywide sales, margin, and share trends.
core category
vinyl and aluminum window manufacturing
Windows
same housing exposure
Windows live in the same macro neighborhood as doors: weak starts, cautious remodel spending, and contractors ordering carefully. The data is thin by product, but the pressure is clear at the company level.
cyclical demand
geographic footprint that drives results
North America + Europe
$2.4B vs. $0.8B
These are the two engines that matter. They both declined 15%, which tells you there was no regional rescue last year. Same business. Same pressure. Different continents.
no offset
Key numbers
$3.2B
annual revenue
That is the whole company. Against a $129M market cap, the stock is priced for stress.
13.0%
operating margin
That means you lose $13 on every $100 of sales before interest and taxes.
$1.1B
long-term debt
Debt is 90% of capital, so lenders have more power than shareholders.
$2.0B
FY2026 sales est.
That base case sits $1.05B below the $3.05B web consensus.
Financial health
C+
strength
- balance sheet grade C+ — weak — may struggle to fund operations
- risk rank 5 — safer than 5% of stocks
- price stability 10 / 100
- long-term debt $1.1B (90% of capital)
C+ — balance sheet grade and long-term debt are flagged. this stock carries more risk than average.
Total return vs. market
Return history isn't available for JELD right now.
source: institutional data · return history unavailable
What just happened
missed estimates
JELD-WEN posted $2.4B of revenue and still lost $6.80 a share.
Revenue rose 198% from the prior year quarter. Gross margin, the slice left after direct costs, was 16.5%.
$800M
revenue
$6.80
eps
16.5%
gross margin
the number that mattered
The $6.80 loss per share matters more than the $2.4B sales rebound. You do not fix a loss like that with volume alone.
source: company earnings report, 2026
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What could go wrong
the main risk is simple: sales are still falling while the balance sheet has very little slack.
high
high debt burden while sales are shrinking
Long-term debt is $1.1B, or 90% of capital, while 2026 revenue is guided to $2.95B–$3.1B after a 14.9% sales decline last year. Shrinking revenue and fixed obligations are a bad pair.
If adjusted EBITDA lands near the low end of $100M–$150M, the equity has very little room for error.
high
market share loss in a thin-margin business
Management said market share slipped. In a business with 16.0% gross margin, losing volume quickly turns weak profitability into worse profitability.
The bear case is blunt: demand stays soft and JELD exits the cycle smaller than it entered.
med
housing and remodeling demand stays weak
JELD sells into residential and commercial building activity. Q4 revenue already fell 10.5%, and the 2026 guide says management expects soft demand to continue.
This pressure touches most of the $3.2B revenue base at once, not one isolated product line.
med
litigation and forced asset action are already part of the story
A federal court ordered JELD-WEN to sell a door skin plant in 2021, and that ruling was upheld on appeal. This came out of a price-fixing case, which is not the kind of baggage a fragile operating story needs.
Legal overhang does not have to be the biggest problem to make a weak setup worse.
$1.1B of debt against a $129M market cap and a guide for another 3–8% sales decline is the whole risk picture in one line.
source: institutional data · regulatory filings · risk analysis
Pay attention to
calendar
Q1 2026 earnings report
estimated for may 4, 2026. You want to see whether management keeps, raises, or cuts the $2.95B–$3.1B revenue guide.
metric
adjusted EBITDA versus the $100M–$150M guide
The midpoint still implies a thin operating profile. If results drift toward the low end, the balance-sheet pressure gets louder fast.
trend
market share stabilization
Management already said share slipped. You need to hear that stop before you can underwrite a real turnaround.
risk
debt versus equity value
$1.1B of debt against a $129M market cap leaves very little cushion. That ratio makes every weak quarter matter more.
Analyst rankings
earnings predictability
25 / 100
in human-speak, analysts do not trust this business to produce smooth, repeatable results right now.
risk rank
5
That means it looks riskier than about 95% of stocks in the dataset. You are being paid in drama, not stability.
price stability
10 / 100
The stock itself is telling you this is a fragile setup. If you own it, expect a rough ride, not clean compounding.
source: institutional data
Institutional activity
institutional ownership data for JELD is being compiled.
source: institutional data
Price targets
3-5 year target range
n/a
n/a
$2
current price
n/a
target midpoint · n/a from current
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