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Research Solutions, Inc. RSSS

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$48.3M
▼ 1.5% YoY
$2.8M
▲ 123.0% YoY
$5.2M
▼ 25.3% YoY

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

In brief

What this company does

The company is a vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) and artificial intelligence (AI) company providing software and related services to help research-intensive organizations simplify the research process, save time and money. The company offers various software platforms that are typically sold to corporate, academic, government and individual researchers as cloud-based SaaS via auto-renewing license agreements. The company's platforms also facilitate the sale of published scientific, technical, and medical (STM) content sold as individual articles (Transactions), either stand alone or via one or more of the research platform solutions it provides. As of September 12, 2025, the company had 136 full-time employees.

Written from the business description in Research Solutions, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 September 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 48.3M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 48.3 · Net income 2.8
20.0M40.0M-2.5M-5.0M
201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+8.6%
+8.8%
+7.2%
+2.5%
+70.3%
+65.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +8.8% a year over the five years to FY2025.

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

6 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 7.4% · Net 5.8%
2%4%6%-5%-10%-15%
201020172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 16.3%
5%10%15%-50%-100%
201020172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin51.9%
Operating margin7.4%
Net margin5.8%
EBITDAUSD 4.8M

Each USD of equity produced 16 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 0.00
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 5.2
2.5M5.0M-2.0M-4.0M
201020172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks -0.1
0.3M0.6M-2.0M-4.0M
2013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paid·
Net buybacksUSD -104,461.00
Share of profit0.0%
Consecutive raises·

Total assetsUSD 45.7M
EquityUSD 20.7M
CashUSD 12.6M
Current ratio0.83×

Equity funds 45% 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
RSSS, 16-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Operating income $B0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.0
Net income $B0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0
EPS, diluted $0.090.04−0.130.02−0.06−0.01−0.03−0.04−0.07−0.10−0.030.04−0.110.01−0.38−0.36
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend————————————————
ROE %16.39.9−39.89.4−31.7−5.5−16.8−30.4−44.0−44.2−14.0————−118.4
Shares out B0.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.02

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 80 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of the 16 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Four checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2011. Three checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2010.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Business Services, NEC
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inNevada
Fiscal year endsJune 30
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2009

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