Company Analysis

CTW (CTW)

Nasdaq: CTW · Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation · Tokyo · filing with the SEC since 2025
Grade4.7
◀ Past 5.3● Present 4.8▶ Future 3.9
1 est.

The grade of CTW

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.7/10
◀ Past5.330% of the headline
● Present4.840% of the headline
▶ Future3.930% 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?

5.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2025.

weight 33% of this tense · 75th percentile among 77 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

CTW's filings since 2025 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).

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

Track record

as filed
4.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.4% a year over 4 filed years; profitable in 3 of 4.

weight 45% of this tense · 48th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

CTW's 4 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $63 million in fiscal 2023 to $83 million in fiscal 2026, up 9.4% a year; it rose in 2 of 3 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 3 of 4 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.4%bottom 39% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 35% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 27% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.7%bottom 45% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.3% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-07-31, CTW's diluted share count grew about 1.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale 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 47% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 12% 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?

4.8/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
5.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -12%: lost 12¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 38%: owes 38¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 54th percentile among 69 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-07-31, CTW lost about 12 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 99 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 38 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 36% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 27% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 12% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 40% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
4.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 43% of 68 in its family; net margin -5%.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 68 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

CTW's standing among 68 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $83 million in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 30% by size; a net margin of -5% ranks in the bottom 38%; revenue growth of 9.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 39% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$82.5Mbottom 30% of its family
  • net margin-5.0%bottom 38% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth9.4%top 39% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
4.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 47 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 47 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 47 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: CTW's leadership is put at 4.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 47 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?

3.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 41% of 68 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 41st percentile among 68 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

CTW's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $15 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 27.5% of its assets as net cash, top 41% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -4.3% of revenue (bottom 39%); a gross margin of 65.5% (top 49%); research spending of 4.6% of revenue (bottom 15%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets27.5%top 41% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-4.3%bottom 39% of its family
  • gross margin65.5%top 49% of its family
  • research spending against revenue4.6%bottom 15% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
6.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 39% of 64 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 61st percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

CTW's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 9.4% a year over the last three filed years against 9.4% over all 4, speeding up (top 31% of its family); the newest year grew -8.7% (bottom 12%); research spending grew 9.3% a year (top 21%); capital spending grew 44.7% a year (top 15%) (its annual reports). CTW 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 31% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-8.7%bottom 12% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending9.3%top 21% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending44.7%top 15% 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
0.8/10

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

bottom 8% of 54 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 8th percentile among 54 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

CTW's newest year against its own record: revenue of $83 million in fiscal 2026 came in 23.8% below the $108 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 6% of its family); net income of $4 million against a prior three-year average of $4 million (bottom 8%); a net margin of -5% against 6.1% before (bottom 8%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-23.8%bottom 6% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-194%bottom 8% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-11.1 pointsbottom 8% 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 CTW · research, not advice