Cerence Inc. (CRNC)

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Cerence Inc.'s filings since 2019 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Cerence Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $277 million in fiscal 2018 to $252 million in fiscal 2025, down 1.4% a year; it rose in 4 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 35% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 3 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Cerence Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 3.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 20% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 7 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-13, buying about $14 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Cerence Inc. lost about 12 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 29 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 3.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Cerence Inc.'s standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $252 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 41% by size; a net margin of -7.4% ranks in the bottom 43%; revenue growth of -8.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 10% (its annual reports).

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Cerence Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Krzanich, Brian M (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-10-10, 2.1 years (bottom 28% of its family); the 10 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.4 years (bottom 5%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 10 people in charge now (bottom 14%; 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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Cerence Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is 18.6% of revenue (top 41%); a gross margin of 72.7% (top 44%); research spending of 38.8% of revenue (top 16%) (its annual report).

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Cerence Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -8.4% a year over the last three filed years against -1.4% over all 8, slowing (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew -24.1% (bottom 6%); research spending grew -3% a year (bottom 25%); capital spending grew -6.3% a year (bottom 45%) (its annual reports). Cerence Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: License at $141 million (56%), Professional Services at $58 million (23%), Connected Services at $53 million (21%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Cerence Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $252 million in fiscal 2025 came in 24.5% below the $333 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 6% of its family); net income of $19 million against a prior three-year average of $318 million (top 26%); a net margin of -7.4% against -97.1% before (top 7%) (its annual reports).