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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Banking · CIK 0001849867
$16.88
-0.31% · live
Updated
$68.8M market value
From Catalyst Bancorp, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 31, 2026 · read the filing
Catalyst Bancorp takes deposits and lends money.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From Catalyst Bancorp, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
-$3.1M → $2.1M
Earnings per share
-$0.72 → $0.50
Long-term debt
$9.6M → $14.7M
Cash
$44.3M → $25.2M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Mar 31, 2026
Improved: turned positive
-$3.1M to $2.1MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CLST fell 0.31% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved −1.33%, and the S&P 500 −0.47%. That is 1.0 points above its sector and in line with the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 0.1% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It earned $2.1M last year.
Not enough history has been reported to judge growth.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.41 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $2.1M and generated $3.3M of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Mar 31, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Mar 28, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Mar 28, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Mar 28, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Mar 28, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest expense | — | — | $1.9M | $683.0K | $795.0K | — |
| Income before tax | $2.5M | -$4.0M | $587.0K | $159.0K | $2.4M | n/m |
| Net income | $2.1M | -$3.1M | $526.0K | $180.0K | $1.9M | n/m |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $0.5036 | $-0.722 | $0.1105 | $0.034 | $0.362 | n/m |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 529 shares at $12.08 ($6.4K)
Holds 45,887 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 16,928 shares at $13.30 ($225.1K)
Holds 45,358 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Attached financial statements or exhibits
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
Coverage from the last 30 days
Primary sources and further research
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CLST's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Mar 31, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
2 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Growth and Accounting had too few reported figures and are left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 6 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Mar 31, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.0 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Mar 28, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Mar 28, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Mar 30, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 5/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 30, 2023 |
| FY2020 | 4.0 | 2/3 | 10-K, filed Mar 29, 2022 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 6 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 3 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: turned positive
-$0.72 to $0.50Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +54.1%
$9.6M to $14.7MCritical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -43.1%
$44.3M to $25.2MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: -56.3%
$430.0K to $188.0KCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +13.0%
$2.7M to $3.1MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: -4.8%
4.3M to 4.1MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 14, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -7.7%
$40.1M to $37.0MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -2.6%
4.1M to 4.0MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 14, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -6.1%
$558.0K to $524.0KNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -5.5%
$0.14 to $0.13Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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The trailing P/E is 32.9x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 553 shares at $17.81 ($9.8K)
Holds 9,579 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 131 shares at $17.81 ($2.3K)
Holds 4,335 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,158 shares at $17.81 ($20.6K)
Holds 37,002 shares after this filing.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Cash -7.7% · Shares in issue -2.6% — against Q2 FY2025
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Free cash flow +82.0% · Capital spending -93.9% · Shares in issue -3.5% — against Q1 FY2025
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Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
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Profit turned positive · Earnings per share turned positive · Long-term debt +54.1% — against FY2024
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Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Long-term debt -50.2% · Earnings per share +16.5% · Cash -18.5% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingChanged its auditor
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Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Cash -46.9% · Shares in issue -7.5% · Earnings per share +6.9% — against Q2 FY2024
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