QuoteMedia

QMCI

Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges · Financial Services

Price

$0.15

+0.00 (+0.00%)

Market Cap

$13.6M

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

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)

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.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+14.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

-81.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

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

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$521,684 cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

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. And they're generating enough cash to self-fund it.

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

Gross Margin

45.5%

Healthy — 45.5% gross margin

Operating Margin

15.0%

Healthy — 15.0% operating margin

ROCE

15.6%

Strong — 15.6% return on capital

ROIC between 15% and 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns 15 to 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+11.0%

Steady sales growth (11.0% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

EPS Consistency

0/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

N/A

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Data not available

FCF Margin

6.3%

Modest free cash flow (6.3%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.03

Conservative — low debt load (0.03)

Interest Cover

N/A

Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/M

—

Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful

P/E vs Forward

N/A

not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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