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Latest annual figures from each company's filings

MetricSTRRStar Equity Holdings, Inc.ASURASURE SOFTWARE INCMHHMastech Digital, Inc.DLHCDLH Holdings Corp.Median of the restexcluding STRR
TypeCompanyCompanyCompanyCompany
Price
$9.70▼ 0.09 (0.92%)
$7.35▲ 0.29 (4.11%)
$6.30▼ 0.10 (1.64%)
$3.72▼ 0.13 (3.38%)
Health scoreComposite of profitability, growth, debt and accounting quality.4.7/102.0/106.0/106.0/106.0/10
Market value$36.4M$206.4M$74.0M$53.9M
Revenue$172.2M—$191.4M$344.5M
Profit-$5.9M-$13.1M$609.0K$1.4M
Revenue growthChange in sales versus the prior year.22.9%—-3.8%-13.0%-8.4%
Gross marginShare of sales left after the direct cost of producing them.46.4%—27.7%18.9%23.3%
Operating marginShare of sales left after running the business, before interest and tax.-2.1%—0.0%4.9%2.4%
Profit marginProfit kept from each dollar of sales.-3.4%—0.3%0.4%0.4%
Free cash flow marginCash left after capital spending, as a share of sales.-5.2%—5.6%6.7%6.1%
Return on equityProfit against the owners' stake in the company.-9.0%-6.6%0.7%1.2%0.7%
Return on invested capital (approx.)Operating profit after tax against equity plus debt, less cash. Cash here excludes short-term investments, so this runs low for cash-rich companies.-4.6%-2.8%0.0%5.4%0.0%
P/E ratioPrice paid per dollar of annual profit.——121.48x39.60x80.54x
EV / EBITDA (approx.)Market value plus debt less cash, against operating profit before depreciation. Cash excludes short-term investments, so this runs high for cash-rich companies.—13.80x—5.35x9.57x
Price to book0.55x1.04x0.83x0.48x0.83x
Debt to equityTotal liabilities compared with owners' stake.0.72x1.69x0.25x1.57x1.57x
Piotroski F-ScoreNine checks of financial strength. Higher is stronger.0/83/75/86/95.0
Bankruptcy riskAltman Z-Score zone.distressdistresssafegrey

How STRR compares with the others

  • STRR's operating margin of -2.1% is lower than the median of the other companies selected (2.4%).
  • Its revenue grew faster than the median of the other companies selected: 22.9% against -8.4%.
  • It has no P/E to set against theirs, because it did not make a profit.
  • Its liabilities are lower relative to equity than the median of the other companies selected: 0.7x against 1.6x.

Measured against the other companies entered, from each one's latest annual filing. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.