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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Technology · CIK 0001768267
$8.34
-3.58% · live
Updated
$361.7M market value
From Cerence Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 20, 2025 · read the filing
Cerence makes and sells software and computing services. It took in $251.8M last year, which makes it a smaller company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 7 cents on every dollar of sales.
The financial picture is led by accounting, while profitability, growth and debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score -3.62
Recent open-market selling by 7 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$3.4M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Several areas of financial weakness.
From Cerence Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
-$579.9M → -$2.3M
Profit
-$588.1M → -$18.7M
Operating margin
-174.9% → -0.9%
Profit margin
-177.4% → -7.4%
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Nov 20, 2025
Improved: $577.6M narrower
-$579.9M to -$2.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: $569.4M narrower
-$588.1M to -$18.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CRNC fell 3.58% on the latest quote. The average Technology company tracked here moved +0.41%, and the S&P 500 −0.47%. That is 4.0 points below its sector and 3.1 points below the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to shrink by about 1% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 7 years it shrank by about 11% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $18.7M last year, losing about 7 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 24.0% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 3.3 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.31 in assets. Its operating profit does not cover its interest bill — -0.22x against the interest it owes. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it lost $18.7M and generated $61.2M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Nov 20, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Nov 25, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Nov 20, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Nov 25, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Nov 29, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $251.8M | $331.5M | $294.5M | $327.9M | $387.2M | −24.0% |
| Cost of revenue | $68.6M | $87.2M | $95.2M | $97.2M | $101.1M | −21.3% |
| Gross profit | $183.1M | $244.3M | $199.3M | $230.7M | $286.1M | −25.0% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 72.7% | 73.7% | 67.7% | 70.4% | 73.9% | −0.9 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $48.8M | $52.5M | $57.9M | $42.7M | $57.0M | −7.0% |
| Operating income | -$2.3M | -$579.9M | -$27.2M | -$184.3M | $60.6M | +99.6% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -0.9% | -174.9% | -9.2% | -56.2% | 15.7% | +174.0 pts |
| Interest expense | $10.2M | $12.6M | $14.8M | $14.4M | $14.0M | −18.6% |
| Income before tax | -$8.8M | -$584.6M | -$36.4M | -$198.8M | $48.3M | +98.5% |
| Net income | -$18.7M | -$588.1M | -$56.3M | -$310.8M | $45.9M | +96.8% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -7.4% | -177.4% | -19.1% | -94.8% | 11.9% | +170.0 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-0.4315 | $-14.03 | $-1.39 | $-7.88 | $1.21 | +96.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 131,715 shares at $8.26 ($1.1M)
Holds 1,568,673 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 52,439 shares at $8.00 ($419.5K)
Holds 290,243 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue +11.8% · Operating margin +4.2 pts · Operating income turned positive — against Q3 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CRNC's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-09-30, filed Nov 20, 2025), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 4.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 20, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 5.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 25, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 4.0 | 3/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 29, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 4.0 | 2/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 29, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 9.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 23, 2021 |
| FY2020 | 3.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 23, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
-3.62
In the distress zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.99
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +174.0 pts
-174.9% to -0.9%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +170.0 pts
-177.4% to -7.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +283.7%
$12.2M to $46.8MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: $13.60 narrower
-$14.03 to -$0.43Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: +187.3%
$5.0M to $14.4MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -24.0%
$331.5M to $251.8MSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -25.0%
$244.3M to $183.1MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: +3.5%
41.9M to 43.4MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Q3 FY2026 against Q3 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Improved: turned positive
-$948.0K to $1.9MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: turned positive
-$2.7M to $1.5MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: turned positive
-$0.06 to $0.03Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +15.3%
$45.9M to $52.9MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +4.2 pts
-1.5% to 2.7%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +6.6 pts
-4.4% to 2.2%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +11.8%
$62.2M to $69.6MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +2.3 pts
73.7% to 76.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -12.8%
$198.8M to $173.5MNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: +4.4%
43.3M to 45.2MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Q3 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: turned positive
-$2.4M to $1.9MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +6.5 pts
-3.8% to 2.7%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +8.4%
$64.2M to $69.6MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +11.9%
$47.3M to $52.9MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: -8.4%
$1.7M to $1.5MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +2.4 pts
73.7% to 76.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: -8.4%
$0.04 to $0.03Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between -3% and 1%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 11 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 11 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 4 say buy and 5 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 14.4% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Trailing P/E is not meaningful because the latest trailing earnings are zero or negative. The price-to-book and price-to-sales figures below still provide reference points.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
Sold on the open market — 66,153 shares at $8.00 ($529.2K)
Holds 627,876 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 48,923 shares at $8.00 ($391.4K)
Holds 244,551 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 21,703 shares at $8.00 ($173.6K)
Holds 1,700,388 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 2,000 shares at $7.02 ($14.0K)
Holds 577,246 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 76,614 shares at $8.00 ($612.9K)
Holds 500,632 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 25,998 shares at $8.83 ($229.5K)
Holds 694,029 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 25,998 shares ($229.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results · Reported another event
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -17.7% · Operating margin −26.1 pts · Operating income turned negative — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +126.1% · Operating margin +58.7 pts · Gross profit +200.4% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -24.0% · Operating margin +174.0 pts · Operating income $577.6M narrower — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingAnnounced restructuring or exit costs · Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue -11.8% · Operating margin +501.6 pts · Operating income $354.0M narrower — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingAttached financial statements or exhibits
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +15.0% · Operating margin +412.0 pts · Operating income turned positive — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingBenzinga ·
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