Creative Realities, Inc. (CREX)

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Creative Realities, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 9 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 6 times, the latest 2022-10-17); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2024-03-28); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2026-03-30) (its current reports).

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Creative Realities, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5 million in fiscal 2017 to $57 million in fiscal 2025, up 34.3% a year; it rose in 8 of 8 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 3 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Creative Realities, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 16.3% 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 1 sale and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $800 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Creative Realities, Inc. lost about 38 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 17 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 86 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Creative Realities, Inc.'s standing among 40 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $57 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 32% by size; a net margin of -14.5% ranks in the top 49%; revenue growth of 9.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

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Creative Realities, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mills, Richard C (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-01-07, 7.8 years (top 28% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 26%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (bottom 16%; 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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Creative Realities, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2 million against debt of $44 million leaves -28.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 11% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -14.1% of revenue (bottom 42%); a gross margin of 44.9% (top 38%) (its annual report).

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Creative Realities, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.7% a year over the last three filed years against 34.3% over all 9, slowing (bottom 18% of its family); the newest year grew 12.6% (top 42%); research spending grew 13.3% a year (top 27%); capital spending grew 27.1% a year (top 18%) (its annual reports). Creative Realities, Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Hardware at $21 million (37%), Managed Services at $18 million (31%), Digital Media Advertising at $10 million (17%), and 2 more; 1 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Creative Realities, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $57 million in fiscal 2025 came in 3.9% above the $55 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 36% of its family); net income of $8 million against a prior three-year average of $2 million (bottom 8%); a net margin of -14.5% against -3% before (bottom 17%) (its annual reports).