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Research Frontiers Inc
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.
▼ -64.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $309.14▼ -69.1%
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 | $1.31 | $1.71 | $1.01 | $1.91 | $1.72 | $2.81 | $3.01 | $1.56 | $1.04 | $1.82 | $5.21 | $5.12 | $5.78 | $3.74 | $3.39 | $5.29 | $3.79 | |
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMSISmith Micro Software Inc | $2.91 | — | 0.8x | — | -78.66% | $16.27M |
| RCTRedCloud Holdings plc | $0.22 | — | — | — | — | $16.29M |
| FABCFabric.AI, Inc. | $2.36 | — | 1.4x | — | -298.03% | $16.53M |
| LEDSSemiLEDs Corp | $2.00 |
Research Frontiers Incorporated, together with other subsidiary, engages in the development and marketing of technology and devices to control the flow of light worldwide. It develops and licenses suspended particle device (SPD-Smart) light-control technology to companies that manufacture and market the SPD-Smart chemical emulsion, light-control film made from the chemical emulsion, the light-control panels made by laminating the film, and electronics to power end-products incorporating the film, as well as lamination services for and the end-products, such as windows, skylights, and sunroofs. The company's SPD-Smart light-control technology is used in various product applications, including windows, sunshades, skylights, and interior partitions for homes and buildings; automotive windows, sunroofs, sun-visors, sunshades, rear-view mirrors, instrument panels, heads up displays and navigation systems; aircraft windows; museum display panels, and eyewear products; and flat panel displays for electronic products. It serves architectural, automotive, marine, and aerospace and appliance applications. The company was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Woodbury, New York.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| P/S |
| 43.1x |
| 40.6x |
| 43.1x |
| 37.2x |
| 118.6x |
| 43.1x |
| 107.4x |
| 60.5x |
| 30.0x |
| 16.6x |
| 35.4x |
| 62.4x |
| 76.6x |
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| P/B | 13.4x | 48.8x | 22.1x | 9.6x | 13.3x | 14.4x | 16.7x | 13.4x | 14.4x | 9.7x | 8.9x | 13.8x | 10.1x | 11.3x | 6.0x | 15.6x | 12.9x | — |
| EPS | -$0.06 | -$0.04 | -$0.06 | -$0.08 | -$0.06 | -$0.07 | -$0.13 | -$0.10 | -$0.10 | -$0.18 | -$0.18 | -$0.19 | -$0.26 | -$0.16 | -$0.22 | -$0.22 | -$0.25 |
| Profit margin | -211.50% | -182.44% | -98.19% | -209.80% | -494.61% | -146.18% | -282.56% | -243.54% | -180.44% | -159.96% | -342.89% | -213.20% | -276.06% | — | — | — | — | — |
| ROE | -53.98% | -219.10% | -50.35% | -54.25% | -55.65% | -48.79% | -43.94% | -53.98% | -86.66% | -94.02% | -86.41% | -47.16% | -36.53% | -50.89% | -22.36% | -100.65% | -51.86% | -96.10% |
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.
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| 5.4x |
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| -28.73% |
| $16.55M |
| AIFFFirefly Neuroscience Inc | $1.08 | — | 1.2x | — | -68.06% | $16.95M |
| GYGYGame Your Game Inc. | $1.18 | — | — | — | — | $16.98M |