Company Analysis

American Shared Hospital Services (AMS)

NYSE: AMS · Services-Medical Laboratories · San Francisco, CA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.3
◀ Past 3.0● Present 5.4▶ Future 4.3
1 est.

The grade of American Shared Hospital Services

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.3/10
◀ Past3.030% of the headline
● Present5.440% of the headline
▶ Future4.330% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
0.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

5 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-06-04.

weight 33% of this tense · 2nd percentile among 27 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

American Shared Hospital Services' filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 4 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2026-06-04); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2026-01-02); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-06-09); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2025-03-31) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4.6% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 7 of 9.

weight 45% of this tense · 38th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

American Shared Hospital Services' 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $20 million in fiscal 2017 to $28 million in fiscal 2025, up 4.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 14% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 7 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.6%bottom 11% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 13% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 11% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak14.4%bottom 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.6% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 56th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, American Shared Hospital Services' diluted share count grew about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 25% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.4/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
5.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -6%: lost 6¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 50%: owes 50¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 58th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, American Shared Hospital Services lost about 6 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 9 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 50 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 44% of its family
  • return on equitytop 40% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 34% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 49% of 24 in its family; net margin -5.5%.

weight 45% of this tense · 49th percentile among 24 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

American Shared Hospital Services' standing among 24 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $28 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 28% by size; a net margin of -5.5% ranks in the top 27%; revenue growth of 12.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$28.1Mbottom 28% of its family
  • net margin-5.5%top 27% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth12.5%bottom 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 20 members with one.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
How it was reasoned
family median, 20 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: American Shared Hospital Services's leadership is put at 5.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 20 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 31% of 24 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 31st percentile among 24 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

American Shared Hospital Services' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $3 million against debt of $17 million leaves -25.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 17% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -16.2% of revenue (bottom 48%); a gross margin of 18% (bottom 28%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-25.1%bottom 17% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-16.2%bottom 48% of its family
  • gross margin18.0%bottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
6.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 34% of 23 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 66th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

American Shared Hospital Services' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 12.5% a year over the last three filed years against 4.6% over all 9, speeding up (top 11% of its family); the newest year grew -0.9% (bottom 15%); capital spending grew 169.9% a year (top 7%) (its annual reports). American Shared Hospital Services reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Direct Patient Services at $16 million (55%), Medical Equipment Leasing at $13 million (45%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+7.8 points a yeartop 11% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-0.9%bottom 15% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending169.9%top 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
1.9/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 19% of 20 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 19th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

American Shared Hospital Services' newest year against its own record: revenue of $28 million in fiscal 2025 came in 17.3% below the $34 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 28% of its family); net income of $2 million against a prior three-year average of $1 million (bottom 13%); a net margin of -5.5% against 5.8% before (bottom 18%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-17.3%bottom 28% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-213%bottom 13% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-11.3 pointsbottom 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton AMS · research, not advice