Company data sheet · Essendant
Essendant: left behind by its peers.
- Industry
- Paper & Paper Products
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (1994–2019), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- November 1, 2026
- Left behind by its peers. From 2016 to 2017, its revenue shrank 6% in US dollars; the median among 77 large wholesalers grew 7%. It outgrew only 0% of them.
- A steady bench. Essendant filed 12 leadership changes since 2016, fewer than 75% of large wholesalers (the median is 19).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $5.4 billion | $0.1 billion | |
| 2017 | $5 billion | −$0.3 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
The full data sheet · Data Plan
Everything behind these findings, ready for your board deck.
- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 22 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the US market the next day and the next year (0 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 89 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
- Methods and sources, so each number can be checked and cited.
The full data sheet downloads with the Data Plan. To see exactly what you get first, open the Boeing sample PDF or Excel.