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NASDAQ · DRAWING & INSULATING OF NONFERROUS WIRE · SMALL CAP

Optical Cable Corp. OCC

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$73.0M
▲ 9.5% YoY
$-1.5M
$1.1M
In brief

What this company does

OCC's product offerings include designs for uses ranging from enterprise networks, data centers, residential, campus and Passive Optical LAN (POL) installations to customized products for specialty applications and harsh environments, including military, industrial, mining, petrochemical, renewable energy and broadcast applications. Optical Cable Corporation, together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, including Applied Optical Systems, Inc., has offices, manufacturing and warehouse facilities located in Roanoke, Virginia, near Asheville, North Carolina and near Dallas, Texas. As of October 31, 2025, the Company employed a total of 348 persons (excluding independent sales representatives and firms), all located in the United States and not represented by unions.

Written from the business description in OPTICAL CABLE CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 December 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 73.0M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 73.0 · Net income -1.5
40M80M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+1.9%
+5.7%
−0.1%
+0.5%
+83.9%
+23.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.7% a year over five years.

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
−2 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -0.6% · Net -2.0%
5%10%-5%-10%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -7.8%
10%20%30%-10%-20%-30%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity lost 8 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 1.1
1M2M-2M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2021 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 0.0
0.8MDividendsNet buybacks2009201120132015201720192021

Total assetsUSD 40.1M
EquityUSD 16.5M
CashUSD 237,508.00
Current ratio1.82×

Equity funds 41% of total assets.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Operating income $B−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0
EBITDA $B0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $····0.87−0.83−0.770.14−0.27−0.28−0.690.10−0.010.430.11−0.95−0.34
Dividend / sh $········0.000.000.080.080.080.060.040.01·
Payout %·········−8−1379−11181338··
ROE %−7.8−18.58.8−1.635.3−33.5−23.64.2−7.2−6.9−14.82.2−0.19.32.4−20.6·
Shares out B0.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.01·

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

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 82 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 13 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityDrawing & Insulating of Nonferrous Wire
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inVirginia
Fiscal year endsOctober 31
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2009

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