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QuoteMedia

QMCI
Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges · Financial Services
Price
$0.15
-0.01 (-6.25%)
Market Cap
$13.6M
Winston Score
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We couldn’t gather enough financial data to score this stock reliably.

Share count falling — buybacks

24.2% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 119.3M (2021) → 90.5M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

QuoteMedia is a small technology company that sells financial data and software tools to other businesses. Its main products include stock quotes, charts, news feeds, portfolio trackers, and market data widgets that banks, brokerages, financial websites, and media companies embed into their own platforms. The company essentially acts as a behind-the-scenes data supplier so that other businesses can show live market information to their customers.

QuoteMedia earns money through recurring subscription and licensing fees, meaning clients pay regularly to keep using its data feeds and software. The company operates primarily in North America and, despite its tiny size, has built a degree of stickiness because switching data providers is costly and disruptive for clients. Its unusually high return on invested capital suggests the core business is capital-light, but the negative operating margin signals that expenses currently outpace revenue — meaning the main risk is whether the company can grow its subscriber base fast enough to reach consistent profitability before larger, well-funded data competitors crowd it out.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+10.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+57.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$5M/ year

Rising (+58% vs prior year)

24.8% of revenue

3.5x the sector average (7%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

42.9%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~3 months

$186,986 cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Heavy R&D investment

QuoteMedia is putting 25% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 3.5x the sector average.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
50.3%
Healthy — 50.3% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-6.9%
Losing money on operations — -6.9%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
N/A
Data not available

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+12.2%
Fast-growing sales (+12.2% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
3/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
2.7%
Thin free cash flow (2.7%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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