Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech) (ACTG)

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2018-08-02); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 3 times, the latest 2022-09-07) (its current reports).

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s 6 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $30 million in fiscal 2020 to $285 million in fiscal 2025, up 57.1% a year; it rose in 3 of 5 years; the deepest fall was 33% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 4 of 6 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s diluted share count grew about 31.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 21% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 5 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech) earned about 4 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 11 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 24 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $285 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 32% by size; a net margin of 7.6% ranks in the top 25%; revenue growth of 68.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 15% (its annual reports).

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mcnulty, Martin D. Jr. (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-05-25, 3.5 years (bottom 39% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4 years (bottom 17%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (bottom 39%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $307 million against debt of $92 million leaves 27.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 26.4% of revenue (top 23%); a gross margin of 29.6% (bottom 19%) (its annual report).

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 68.9% a year over the last three filed years against 57.1% over all 6, speeding up (top 35% of its family); the newest year grew 133.3% (top 25%); capital spending grew 1077.1% a year (top 7%) (its annual reports). Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech) reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Manufacturing Operations at $115 million (40%), Intellectual Property Operations at $78 million (28%), Energy Operations at $64 million (22%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia Tech)'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $285 million in fiscal 2025 came in 62.3% above the $176 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 35% of its family); net income of $22 million against a prior three-year average of $31 million (top 6%); a net margin of 7.6% against -62.4% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).