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Optical Cable Corp
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +276.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $3,885.03▲ +288.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $4.45 | $3.61 | $2.70 | $4.42 | $5.37 | $2.68 | $3.25 | $3.81 | $2.41 | $3.01 | $2.83 | $4.53 | $3.67 | $3.73 | $3.19 | $3.12 | $3.30 | |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 27.4 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 18.8 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| MXMAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR Corp | $3.22 | — | 0.5x | — | -12.76% | $117.56M |
| ATGLAlpha Technology Group Ltd | $7.40 | — | 38.9x | — | -184.89% | $121.82M |
| TCXTucows Inc | $10.49 |
Optical Cable Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells fiber optic and copper data communications cabling and connectivity solutions primarily for the enterprise market in the United States and internationally. The company offers fiber optic and hybrid cables for high bandwidth transmission of data, video, and audio communications; and copper datacom cables, including unshielded and shielded twisted pair constructions. Its fiber optic connectivity products include fiber optic wall mounts, cabinet mount and rack mount enclosures, NEMA enclosures, pre-terminated fiber optic enclosures, fiber optic connectors, splice trays, fiber optic jumpers, plug and play cassette modules, pre-terminated fiber optic cable assemblies, adapters, and accessories; and copper connectivity products comprising category compliant patch panels, jacks, plugs, patch cords, faceplates, surface mounted boxes, distribution and multi-media boxes, copper rack mount and wall mount enclosures, cable assemblies, cable organizers, and other wiring products for equipment rooms, telecommunications closets, data centers, and workstation applications. In addition, the company provides network, data storage, and telecommunications management systems, such as data cabinets, wall mount enclosures, horizontal and vertical cable management systems, and open frame relay racks; and datacom wiring products, including various enclosures, and modules and modular outlets for single dwelling and multiple dwelling residential uses. Further, the company provides specialty fiber optic connectors and connectivity components, copper datacom connectors, and related systems and solutions for military, other harsh environment, and special applications, as well as cylindrical connector products. It sells its products to distributors, original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, and end-users. Optical Cable Corporation was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| P/E |
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| 10.4x |
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| 6.2x |
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| 27.2x |
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| 45.3x |
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| 8.7x |
| 29.0x |
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| P/S | 0.3x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.5x | 0.7x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | — |
| P/B | 0.9x | 2.4x | 1.4x | 0.9x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.7x | — |
| EPS | -$0.18 | -$0.54 | $0.26 | -$0.05 | $0.87 | -$0.83 | -$0.77 | $0.14 | -$0.27 | -$0.28 | -$0.69 | $0.10 | -$0.01 | $0.43 | $0.11 | -$0.95 | -$0.34 |
| Dividend yield | 1.70% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.83% | 1.77% | 1.63% | 2.14% | 1.25% | 0.32% | — |
| Payout | 36.36% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 80.00% | — | 18.60% | 36.36% | — | — |
| Profit margin | -1.99% | -1.99% | -6.31% | 2.86% | -0.50% | 11.18% | -11.07% | -7.95% | 1.22% | -2.71% | -2.75% | -5.78% | 0.82% | -0.06% | 3.29% | 0.91% | -8.49% | -3.28% |
| ROE | -5.79% | -8.81% | -20.20% | 8.36% | -1.57% | 29.77% | -40.11% | -26.69% | 3.99% | -7.34% | -7.18% | -15.98% | 2.21% | -0.14% | 8.97% | 2.36% | -20.58% | -5.79% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
3 methods answered, across 1 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
-80.8% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
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| $117.3M |
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