Company Analysis

BK Technologies Corporation (BKTI)

NYSE: BKTI · Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment · West Melbourne, FL · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade6.5
◀ Past 6.8● Present 6.6▶ Future 6.2
1 est.

The grade of BK Technologies Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.5/10
◀ Past6.830% of the headline
● Present6.640% of the headline
▶ Future6.230% 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?

6.8/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
5.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

4 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-06-10.

weight 33% of this tense · 55th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

BK Technologies Corporation's filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 3 times, the latest 2025-06-10); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2023-05-02) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
7.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+7.8% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 2 of 3.

weight 45% of this tense · 76th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

BK Technologies Corporation's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $74 million in fiscal 2023 to $86 million in fiscal 2025, up 7.8% a year; it rose in 2 of 2 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 2 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span7.8%top 39% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 12% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 31% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 12% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 39.9% a year. 4% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 3 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, BK Technologies Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 39.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 4% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 2% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 46% 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?

6.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 30%: 30¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 30%: owes 30¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 79th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, BK Technologies Corporation earned about 30 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 66 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 30 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 3.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 12% of its family
  • return on equitytop 17% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 8% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 45% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
5.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 43% of 21 in its family; net margin 15.7%.

weight 33% of this tense · 57th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

BK Technologies Corporation's standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $86 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of 15.7% ranks in the top 21%; revenue growth of 7.8% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the top 47% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$86.1Mbottom 39% of its family
  • net margin15.7%top 21% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.8%top 47% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 50% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2021.

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

BK Technologies Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Suzuki, John M (CEO & President, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-08-27, 5.2 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 10 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.4 years (bottom 27%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 10 people in charge now (top 19%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge3 in three years among 10 peopletop 19% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.4 yearsbottom 27% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record5.2 yearsbottom 42% of its family

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

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.2/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
7.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 30% of 21 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 70th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

BK Technologies Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $23 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 35.7% of its assets as net cash, top 26% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 21.4% of revenue (top 17%); a gross margin of 48.8% (top 24%); research spending of 12.3% of revenue (bottom 45%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets35.7%top 26% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue21.4%top 17% of its family
  • gross margin48.8%top 24% of its family
  • research spending against revenue12.3%bottom 45% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 44% of 21 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 56th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

BK Technologies Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.8% a year over the last three filed years against 7.8% over all 3, speeding up (top 34% of its family); the newest year grew 12.5% (top 40%); research spending grew 3.2% a year (top 31%); capital spending grew -15.9% a year (bottom 29%) (its annual reports). BK Technologies Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 34% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth12.5%top 40% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending3.2%top 31% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-15.9%bottom 29% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
5.7/10

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

SI estimate 5.7/10, 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
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 20 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
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: BK Technologies Corporation's expectations vs reality is put at 5.7 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, 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.

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 BKTI · research, not advice