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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Electrical Equipment · CIK 0000038264
$6.96
-7.81% · live
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$599.6M market value
From Forward Industries, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Dec 11, 2025 · read the filing
Forward Industries lends money and provides credit. It took in $18.2M last year, which makes it a small company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 918 cents on every dollar of sales.
The filing does not provide enough evidence for a clear financial conclusion.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Significant financial weakness across most measures.
From Forward Industries, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
-$2.2M → -$8.4M
Profit
-$2.0M → -$167.0M
Operating margin
-10.8% → -46.1%
Profit margin
-9.8% → -918.1%
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Dec 11, 2025
Deteriorated: $6.2M wider
-$2.2M to -$8.4MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: $165.0M wider
-$2.0M to -$167.0MCritical
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
FWDI fell 7.81% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.11%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 8.9 points below its sector and 6.8 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.
Opinions from 9 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 9 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 6 say buy and 1 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.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $167.0M last year, losing about 918 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 9.0% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $306.16 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors. Its operating profit does not cover its interest bill — -170.78x against the interest it owes.
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 $167.0M and generated -$4.5M of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Dec 11, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Dec 11, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Dec 11, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Dec 21, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Dec 16, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $18.2M | $20.0M | $36.7M | $38.2M | $39.0M | −9.0% |
| Cost of revenue | $13.0M | $14.8M | $15.5M | $29.4M | $30.9M | −12.2% |
| Gross profit | $5.2M | $5.2M | $8.4M | $8.8M | $8.1M | +0.1% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 28.5% | 25.9% | 22.8% | 23.0% | 20.8% | +2.6 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $9.6M | $6.4M | $6.5M | $6.7M | $6.4M | +50.9% |
| Operating income | -$8.4M | -$2.2M | $159.7K | $588.5K | -$765.0K | −290.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -46.1% | -10.8% | 0.4% | 1.5% | -2.0% | −35.4 pts |
| Interest expense | $49.1K | $62.7K | $104.2K | $123.4K | $172.0K | −21.6% |
| Income before tax | -$169.1M | -$2.1M | $178.7K | $452.4K | $523.8K | −7788.5% |
| Net income | -$167.0M | -$2.0M | -$3.7M | -$1.4M | $523.8K | −8460.2% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -918.1% | -9.8% | -10.2% | -3.6% | 1.3% | −908.3 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-1.94 | $-1.77 | $-3.39 | $-0.137 | $0.0521 | −9.4% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
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Was granted or awarded shares — 146,956 shares
Holds 440,867 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 137,500 shares
Holds 412,500 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
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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 FWDI's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-09-30, filed Dec 11, 2025), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. 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. 8 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 | 2.0 | 3/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 11, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 2.0 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 27, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 21, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 16, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 16, 2021 |
| FY2020 | 2.0 | 3/9 | 10-K, filed Dec 17, 2020 |
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
3 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as 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.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
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.
Deteriorated: −35.4 pts
-10.8% to -46.1%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.
Deteriorated: −908.3 pts
-9.8% to -918.1%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.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$454.6K to -$4.5MCritical
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: +1274.3%
$2.8M to $38.2MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +7723.8%
1.1M to 86.1MCritical
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.
Changed: -60.4%
$65.2K to $25.8KCritical
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: -9.0%
$20.0M to $18.2MNotable
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: +2.6 pts
25.9% to 28.5%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: $0.17 wider
-$1.77 to -$1.94Notable
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.
Q3 FY2026 against Q3 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 12, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +332.1%
$2.5M to $10.8MCritical
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: turned positive
-$621.0K to $6.7MCritical
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: $67.7M wider
-$2.6M to -$70.3MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: $68.1M wider
-$850.0K to -$69.0MCritical
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: +87.1 pts
-24.9% to 62.2%Critical
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: −549.2 pts
-102.6% to -651.8%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.
Deteriorated: −605.6 pts
-34.1% to -639.7%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: +768.1%
$1.3M to $11.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +6458.3%
1.1M to 73.8MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: $0.18 wider
-$0.75 to -$0.93Significant
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.
Q3 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 12, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: $213.8M narrower
-$284.1M to -$70.3MCritical
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: $214.1M narrower
-$283.1M to -$69.0MCritical
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: +1540.0 pts
-2191.9% to -651.8%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: +1544.4 pts
-2184.1% to -639.7%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: $2.78 narrower
-$3.71 to -$0.93Critical
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.
Deteriorated: -16.8%
$13.0M to $10.8MSignificant
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: -26.1%
$9.1M to $6.7MSignificant
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: −7.8 pts
70.0% to 62.2%Significant
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: -34.1%
$16.6M to $11.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -3.2%
76.3M to 73.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
1 other measure 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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About 5.3% 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.
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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.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
Was granted or awarded shares — 146,956 shares
Holds 539,041 shares after this filing.
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.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue +332.1% · Operating margin −549.2 pts · Gross profit turned positive — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +315.0% · Operating margin −2133.5 pts · Gross profit turned positive — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingSold shares outside a public offering · Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSold shares outside a public offering · Changed the rights attached to its shares · Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Amended its charter or changed its financial year · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +363.5% · Operating margin −2703.4 pts · Gross profit +1387.1% — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -9.0% · Operating margin −35.4 pts · Operating income $6.2M wider — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingForward Industries (FWDI) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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