Forensic Analysis · Materials / Mining & Chemicals · as of Oct 23, 2026

Optical Cable Corp (OCC)

A forensic read on Optical Cable Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

3.2

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-7.8%

ROE

9.5%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Optical Cable Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.2, placing it in the Safe zone. 1 forensic signal was flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

-1.5%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -1.5% in the latest fiscal year, against 3.4% in FY2023, having run between -10.4% and 3.4% across FY2023–FY2025 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was $893,771 in FY2023 and ($355,762) in FY2025, with operating income at 1.4% of revenue in FY2023, -5.1% in FY2024 and -0.6% in FY2025. The capital base behind it cannot be compared across FY2023–FY2025: short-term debt and long-term debt are tagged in one of those two fiscal years and not the other, and an untagged line enters this calculation as zero, so any change in the base would be a change in what the filer tagged.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$73.0M

Revenue Growth YoY+9.5%

Revenue CAGR (2yr)+0.6%

Net Margin-2.0%

Free Cash Flow$1.1M

Return on Equity-7.8%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Oct 23, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.