Company Analysis

Cytosorbents Corporation (CTSO)

Nasdaq: CTSO · Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus · Princeton, NJ · filing with the SEC since 2004
Grade4.2
◀ Past 3.0● Present 4.8▶ Future 4.6
1 est.

The grade of Cytosorbents Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past3.030% of the headline
● Present4.840% of the headline
▶ Future4.630% 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 · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed
0.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

6 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-07-06.

weight 33% of this tense · 9th percentile among 121 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's filings since 2017 show 6 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 5 times, the latest 2026-07-06); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, 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
3.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+18.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 0 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 39th percentile among 105 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $8 million in fiscal 2016 to $37 million in fiscal 2025, up 18.2% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 28% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 0 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span18.2%top 43% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 46% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 23% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak28.0%bottom 30% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate
4.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 4.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 120 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, the share count over the years, which ranks in the bottom 42% of 120 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
How it was reasoned
one part: the share count over the years, the one part on file, ranked among 120 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Cytosorbents Corporation's shareholder treatment is put at 4.2 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the share count over the years, which ranks in the bottom 42% of 120 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.8/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -139%: lost 139¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 87%: owes 87¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 40th percentile among 120 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Cytosorbents Corporation lost about 139 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 60 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 87 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 14.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 13% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 22% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 21% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 46% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 36% of 109 in its family; net margin -22.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 36th percentile among 109 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's standing among 109 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $37 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 34% by size; a net margin of -22.1% ranks in the bottom 49%; revenue growth of 2.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 26% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$37.1Mbottom 34% of its family
  • net margin-22.1%bottom 49% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth2.2%bottom 26% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
8.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 18% of 91 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2009.

weight 22% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 91 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Chan, Phillip P. (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2009-01-09, 17.8 years (top 4% of its family); the 4 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.9 years (top 2%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 4 people in charge now (top 48%; 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 charge2 in three years among 4 peopletop 48% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed14.9 yearstop 2% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record17.8 yearstop 4% 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?

4.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 40% of 104 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 40th percentile among 104 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $6 million against debt of $17 million leaves -23.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 13% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -33.8% of revenue (bottom 36%); a gross margin of 71.5% (top 29%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-23.6%bottom 13% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-33.8%bottom 36% of its family
  • gross margin71.5%top 29% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
3.4/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 33% of 105 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 105 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.2% a year over the last three filed years against 18.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 22% of its family); the newest year grew 4.1% (bottom 28%); research spending grew 21.3% a year (top 21%); capital spending grew -70% a year (bottom 5%) (its annual reports). Cytosorbents 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-16.0 points a yearbottom 22% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.1%bottom 28% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending21.3%top 21% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-70.0%bottom 5% 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
7.5/10

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

top 25% of 88 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 88 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Cytosorbents Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $37 million in fiscal 2025 came in 2.8% above the $36 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 32% of its family); net income of $8 million against a prior three-year average of $28 million (top 26%); a net margin of -22.1% against -82.3% before (top 16%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace2.8%top 32% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+70%top 26% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+60.2 pointstop 16% 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 CTSO · research, not advice