Company Analysis

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. (ISSC)

Nasdaq: ISSC · Services-Computer Programming Services · Exton, PA · filing with the SEC since 2000
Grade6.5
◀ Past 4.8● Present 6.5▶ Future 7.5

The grade of Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.5/10
◀ Past4.825% of the headline
● Present6.535% of the headline
▶ Future7.540% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2024-02-02.

weight 22% of this tense · 25th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-02-02); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2023-12-27) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
6.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+22.4% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 8 of 9.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 33 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $17 million in fiscal 2017 to $84 million in fiscal 2025, up 22.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 17% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 8 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span22.4%top 26% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 39% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 41% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak17.5%top 47% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.3/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.1% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.1% 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 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-23 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 37% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 24% 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?

6.5/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.2/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 24%: 24¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 37%: owes 37¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 31 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. earned about 24 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 39 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 45% of its family
  • return on equitytop 5% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 13% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 37% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
7.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 26% of 33 in its family; net margin 18.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 74th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s standing among 33 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $84 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 48% by size; a net margin of 18.5% ranks in the top 14%; revenue growth of 44.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 17% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$84.3Mtop 48% of its family
  • net margin18.5%top 14% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth44.8%top 17% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
3.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 34% of 11 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2023.

weight 22% of this tense · 34th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Askarpour, Shahram (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-01-13, 3.8 years (top 35% of its family); the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.5 years (bottom 17%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (bottom 21%; 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 charge10 in three years among 8 peoplebottom 21% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed3.5 yearsbottom 17% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record3.8 yearstop 35% 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?

7.5/1040% 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 32 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 41st percentile among 32 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $3 million against debt of $22 million leaves -18.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.1% of revenue (top 42%); a gross margin of 48.1% (top 29%); research spending of 4.7% of revenue (bottom 28%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-18.4%bottom 8% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue8.1%top 42% of its family
  • gross margin48.1%top 29% of its family
  • research spending against revenue4.7%bottom 28% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
8.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 13% of 33 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 87th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 44.8% a year over the last three filed years against 22.4% over all 9, speeding up (top 5% of its family); the newest year grew 78.7% (top 11%); research spending grew 13.8% a year (top 22%); capital spending grew 243% a year (top 13%) (its annual reports). Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $54 million (64%), Service at $30 million (36%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+22.5 points a yeartop 5% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth78.7%top 11% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending13.8%top 22% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending243.0%top 13% 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
8.2/10

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

top 18% of 29 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $84 million in fiscal 2025 came in 37% above the $62 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 16% of its family); net income of $16 million against a prior three-year average of $6 million (top 9%); a net margin of 18.5% against 17.4% before (top 29%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace37.0%top 16% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+153%top 9% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+1.2 pointstop 29% 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 ISSC · research, not advice