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OTC MARKETS · Technology · CIK 0001022505
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Last price from Oct 20, 2026
$6.9M market value
From SideChannel, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Dec 18, 2025 · read the filing
SideChannel makes and sells software and computing services. It took in $7.4M last year, which makes it a small company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 12 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.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score -18.13
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
Significant financial weakness across most measures.
From SideChannel, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Cash
$6.0K → $1.1M
Operating income
-$940.0K → -$918.0K
Profit
-$904.0K → -$892.0K
Earnings per share
-$0.00 → -$0.00
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Dec 18, 2025
Improved: +17650.0%
$6.0K to $1.1MCritical
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: $22.0K narrower
-$940.0K to -$918.0KNotable
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.
$12.0K narrower
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
SDCH was unchanged on the latest quote. The average Technology company tracked here moved −1.27%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.3 points above its sector and 1.0 points above the market.
No filing from SDCH and no news item about it appeared in the last 3 days.
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.
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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 grow by about 8% a year for the next 10 years. Its free cash flow was negative earlier in this period, so there is no past growth rate to set against that.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $892.0K last year, losing about 12 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 0.7% last year.
It does not appear so. For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.62 in assets. 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 $892.0K and generated -$130.0K 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 · Dec 18, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Dec 18, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Dec 13, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Dec 20, 2022Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Dec 20, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $7.4M | $7.4M | $6.6M | $4.8M | $2.8M | −0.7% |
| Cost of revenue | $3.8M | $3.9M | $3.2M | $2.5M | $1.5M | −0.5% |
| Gross profit | $3.5M | $3.5M | $3.3M | $2.3M | $1.3M | −0.8% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 47.7% | 47.7% | 50.7% | 48.5% | 45.1% | −0.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $2.9M | $3.2M | $3.6M | $1.5M | $656.0K | −8.3% |
| Operating income | -$918.0K | -$940.0K | -$7.4M | -$11.6M | $510.0K | +2.3% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -12.5% | -12.7% | -112.8% | -242.1% | 18.2% | +0.2 pts |
| Income before tax | -$878.0K | -$899.0K | -$7.4M | -$11.6M | $513.0K | +2.3% |
| Net income | -$892.0K | -$904.0K | -$7.0M | -$11.8M | $513.0K | +1.3% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -12.1% | -12.2% | -106.6% | -245.9% | 18.3% | +0.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-0.003858 | $-0.004 | $-0.0328 | $-0.0792 | $0.008564 | +3.6% |
† 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
Nothing recent
No insider trades, pending-sale notices or 5% stake filings from SDCH in the last few months. That is the ordinary case, not a gap.
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.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Amended its charter or changed its financial year
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
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Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 1 subsidiaries named in its 10-K. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2025-12-18. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
Coverage from the last 30 days
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 SDCH's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-09-30, filed Dec 18, 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 18, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 13, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 4.7 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 27, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 4.7 | 3/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 20, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 20, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 3.3 | 3/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 29, 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.
-18.13
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.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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.
-$904.0K to -$892.0KNotable
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: $0.00 narrower
-$0.00 to -$0.00Notable
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: +2.3%
226.0M to 231.2MNotable
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 Q3 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 12, 2026 — read it.
Improved: $133.0K narrower
-$268.0K to -$135.0KCritical
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: $127.0K narrower
-$261.0K to -$134.0KCritical
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.
Deteriorated: $0.03 wider
-$0.00 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.
Deteriorated: -71.6%
$1.1M to $326.0KCritical
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: -98.0%
231.2M to 4.6MCritical
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.
Improved: +18.1%
$835.0K to $986.0KSignificant
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: +7.8 pts
47.0% to 54.9%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.
Improved: +7.6 pts
-15.1% to -7.5%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: +7.2 pts
-14.7% to -7.5%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.
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: $313.0K narrower
-$448.0K to -$135.0KCritical
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: $310.0K narrower
-$444.0K to -$134.0KCritical
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: +20.9 pts
-28.4% to -7.5%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: +20.7 pts
-28.2% to -7.5%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: $0.07 narrower
-$0.10 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: +17.0%
$843.0K to $986.0KSignificant
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: +23.5%
$264.0K to $326.0KSignificant
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: +14.0%
$1.6M to $1.8MNotable
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: +1.4 pts
53.5% to 54.9%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.
5 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.
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 5% and 10%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 0.0% 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.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Proxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Quarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Operating margin +7.6 pts · Operating income $133.0K narrower · Profit $127.0K narrower — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -16.8% · Operating margin −25.2 pts · Operating income $387.0K wider — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue -7.0% · Operating margin −11.8 pts · Operating income $194.0K wider — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Cash +17650.0% · Operating income $22.0K narrower · Profit $12.0K narrower — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Reported another event
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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