IZEA Worldwide, Inc. (IZEA)

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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 10 warning events of 4 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 4 times, the latest 2022-07-08); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, 2 times, the latest 2022-03-23); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2022-07-22); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2018-05-15) (its current reports).

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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s 7 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $19 million in fiscal 2019 to $31 million in fiscal 2025, up 8.7% a year; it rose in 2 of 6 years; the deepest fall was 24% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 1 of 7 of those years (its annual reports).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, IZEA Worldwide, Inc. earned about 0 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 26 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 15 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 7.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $31 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 18% by size; a net margin of 0.1% ranks in the top 30%; revenue growth of -8.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 30% (its annual reports).

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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Venetucci, Patrick James (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-09-10, 2.2 years (bottom 31% of its family); the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.3 years (top 8%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (top 18%; 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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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $51 million against debt of $9 thousand leaves 88.5% of its assets as net cash, top 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.6% of revenue (top 17%); a gross margin of 48.1% (bottom 29%) (its annual report).

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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -8.7% a year over the last three filed years against 8.7% over all 7, slowing (bottom 18% of its family); the newest year grew -12.9% (bottom 32%); capital spending grew -10.5% a year (bottom 32%) (its annual reports). IZEA Worldwide, Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Sponsored Social Revenue at $27 million (88%), Content Revenue at $4 million (12%), Saa S Services Segment Revenue at $213 thousand (1%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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IZEA Worldwide, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $31 million in fiscal 2025 came in 6.8% below the $34 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 29% of its family); net income of $42 thousand against a prior three-year average of $10 million (top 21%); a net margin of 0.1% against -27.9% before (top 4%) (its annual reports).