ACCO Brands Corporation (ACCO) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and ACCO Brands published the results on October 29, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. ACCO Brands reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and Adjusted EPS, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• ACCO Brands' Q3 2026 operating income, GAAP EPS and Adjusted EPS all include $15.1 million of net tariff refunds, worth $0.11 per diluted share. ACCO treats tariff costs and refunds as part of underlying results and does not adjust them out.
• ACCO Brands acquired EPOS on January 30, 2026, so Q3 2026 includes EPOS and Q3 2025 does not. It acquired Trust on October 1, 2026, after the quarter ended.

Source: ACCO Brands Q3 2026 results, October 29, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How ACCO Brands splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• ACCO Brands's ACCO Brands Americas revenue was $220 million in Q3 2026, down 3% from $228 million in Q3 2025, 58% of total revenue.
• ACCO Brands's ACCO Brands International revenue was $161 million in Q3 2026, up 3% from $156 million in Q3 2025, 42% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

In its Q3 2026 release, ACCO Brands said:

“For the full year, the Company expects reported sales to increase 4.0 percent to 6.0 percent, updated to include one quarter of expected sales from the acquired Trust business.”

“Full-year adjusted EPS is expected to be $0.98 to $1.02 inclusive of $0.12 from the tariff refund.”

“The Company expects 2026 free cash flow of approximately $100 million and the consolidated leverage ratio of approximately 3.5x at year-end.”

Source: ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 29, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the ACCO forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP net sales and diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's release. Q1 2026 EPS includes the $33.8 million bargain purchase gain on the EPOS acquisition.

We do not hold a confirmed date for ACCO Brands's next report. Companies post the date on their investor relations site a few weeks ahead, usually with the time of the conference call.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 29, 2026

ACCO Brands sells technology peripherals, workspace products and school and creative supplies under brands including Kensington, PowerA, EPOS, Five Star, Mead, Leitz and Tilibra. Its Q3 2026 net sales were $380.3 million, down 0.9% from $383.7 million. The EPOS acquisition added 4.9% and currency 0.4%, and comparable sales fell 6.2%. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

ACCO Brands Americas had net sales of $219.8 million, down 3.4%, with comparable sales down 6.4%. The release says lower demand for technology peripherals was offset by growth in Latin America, and that more back-to-school sales were recognized in the second quarter this year. ACCO Brands International grew 2.8% to $160.5 million, with EPOS adding 9.2% and comparable sales down 6.0% on weaker technology peripheral demand and softness in Australia. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

ACCO Brands bought EPOS, a Danish maker of enterprise headsets and audio products, from Demant on January 30, 2026. On October 1, 2026 it closed the purchase of Trust, a Netherlands-based maker of PC and gaming accessories sold in more than 50 countries, for an unadjusted price of about $57 million. The CEO said Trust will take the technology peripherals portfolio to approach $500 million of pro forma annual sales. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; ACCO Brands Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

ACCO Brands sells heavily through a few large retailers. Its five largest customers accounted for $484.7 million of 2025 net sales, and Amazon, the largest, for $158.1 million, or 10 percent. (ACCO Brands Form 10-K, 2025, Mar 9, 2026)

ACCO Brands reported GAAP diluted EPS of $0.12 in Q3 2026, against $0.04, and Adjusted EPS of $0.28, against $0.21. Both include $15.1 million of net tariff refunds, a $0.11 per share benefit, because ACCO does not adjust tariffs out of its non-GAAP figures. Adjusted net income of $27.2 million adds back $11.5 million of amortization of intangibles, a $4.8 million reserve for a customer liquidation, a $2.7 million charge from revising the EPOS bargain purchase gain and discrete tax items. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

ACCO Brands' gross margin rose to 35.7% from 33.0%, and adjusted operating income rose to $47.8 million from $39.2 million, a 12.6% margin. The GAAP tax rate was 30.7%, against 72.8% a year earlier, when discrete tax items raised it; the adjusted figures use an estimated annual rate of 29.0%. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

ACCO Brands' diluted share count was 96.0 million, against 93.3 million. It repurchased no shares in the first nine months of 2026, against $15.1 million a year earlier, and paid $20.8 million of dividends. Net debt was $706.5 million at September 30, 2026 and the consolidated leverage ratio was 3.6x. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

ACCO Brands gives a full-year outlook in its release and raised it with Q3 2026 results to include tariff refunds and one quarter of Trust. It expects 2026 reported sales to grow 4.0 percent to 6.0 percent and Adjusted EPS of $0.98 to $1.02, including $0.12 from the tariff refund. It expects free cash flow of approximately $100 million and a consolidated leverage ratio of approximately 3.5x at year-end. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

ACCO Brands does not reconcile its outlook to GAAP EPS. The release says restructuring, integration and acquisition costs, the tax rate and currency cannot be predicted without unreasonable effort. (ACCO Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover ACCO Brands, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones ACCO Brands's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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