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Daily Journal Corp. DJCO

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$87.7M
▲ 25.4% YoY
$112.1M
▲ 43.6% YoY
$13.3M

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Daily Journal Corporation publishes newspapers and websites covering California and Arizona news and produces several specialized information publications. The Company publishes 10 newspapers of general circulation. The Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily Journal were established in 1888 and 1893, respectively. The Company had approximately 415 full-time employees and contractors and approximately 9 part-time employees as of September 30, 2025.

Written from the business description in DAILY JOURNAL CORPORATION's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 December 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 87.7M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 87.7 · Net income 112.1
50M100M-10M-20M
201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+17.5%
+11.9%
+7.1%
+5.8%
+94.4%
+63.7%
+19.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +11.9% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +94.4%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

128 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 10.9% · Net 127.9%
100%200%-20%-40%
201020172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 33.5%
20%40%-5%-10%-15%
201020172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin·
Operating margin10.9%
Net margin127.9%
EBITDAUSD 9.8M

Each USD of equity produced 33 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

·
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 13.3
10M20M-2M-4M
201020172025
Dividends paid·
Net buybacks·
Share of profit·
Consecutive raises·

Total assetsUSD 548.1M
EquityUSD 391.1M
CashUSD 20.6M
Current ratio13.89×

Equity funds 71% of total assets.

The 16-year record

16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
DJCO, 16-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Operating income $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.0◌◌
Income tax $B0.00.00.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.10.10.0−0.00.10.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $81.4156.73◌◌81.772.93−18.265.94−0.66−0.760.590.462.744.015.685.56
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend————————————————
ROE %33.532.611.3−9.957.02.9−16.85.1−0.6−0.80.60.53.87.312.512.6
Shares out B0.000.00◌0.00◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.000.000.000.00

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 64 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of the 16 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Three checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2010.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityNewspapers: Publishing or Publishing & Printing
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inSouth Carolina
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2010

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