Company Analysis

Comstock Inc. (LODE)

NYSE: LODE · Industrial Organic Chemicals · Virginia City,, NV · filing with the SEC since 2001
Grade4.2
◀ Past 4.5● Present 3.7▶ Future 4.5
1 est.

The grade of Comstock Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past4.530% of the headline
● Present3.740% of the headline
▶ Future4.530% 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?

4.5/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed
3.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

8 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-06-09.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 8 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 5 times, the latest 2019-06-27); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2026-06-09); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2019-05-15) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
2.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-8.8% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 2 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 24th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5 million in fiscal 2012 to $2 million in fiscal 2025, down 8.8% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 100% from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2017; net income was positive in 2 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-8.8%bottom 8% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 45% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 29% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak99.6%bottom 3% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate
9.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 9.7/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 97th percentile among 20 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 top 3% of 20 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 20 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: Comstock Inc.'s shareholder treatment is put at 9.7 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 top 3% of 20 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?

3.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
2.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -40%: lost 40¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 37%: owes 37¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 28th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Comstock Inc. lost about 40 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned less than nothing, about minus 1 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 120.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 32% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 14% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 15% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 15% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 32% of 20 in its family; net margin -2772.3%.

weight 33% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 3% by size; a net margin of -2772.3% ranks in the bottom 3%; revenue growth of 39.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 8% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.6Mbottom 3% of its family
  • net margin-2772.3%bottom 3% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth39.6%top 8% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
6.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 37% of 17 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2010.

weight 22% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Degasperis, Corrado F (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2010-04-27, 16.5 years (top 16% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.4 years (top 50%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (top 44%; 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 charge6 in three years among 11 peopletop 44% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.4 yearstop 50% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record16.5 yearstop 16% 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?

4.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 44% of 20 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 44th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $17 million against debt of $0 thousand leaves 10% of its assets as net cash, top 26% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -1569.5% of revenue (bottom 3%); a gross margin of -69.1% (bottom 3%); research spending of 792.9% of revenue (top 4%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets10.0%top 26% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-1569.5%bottom 3% of its family
  • gross margin-69.1%bottom 3% of its family
  • research spending against revenue792.9%top 4% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
7.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 29% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 39.6% a year over the last three filed years against -8.8% over all 10, speeding up (top 8% of its family); the newest year grew -48.5% (bottom 8%); research spending grew 20.6% a year (top 12%); capital spending grew 140.7% a year (top 3%) (its annual reports). Comstock Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Metals at $1 million (90%), Mining at $136 thousand (9%), Corporate and Other at $17 thousand (1%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+48.4 points a yeartop 8% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-48.5%bottom 8% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending20.6%top 12% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending140.7%top 3% 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 19 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 8th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Comstock Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2 million in fiscal 2025 came in 68.7% below the $5 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 3% of its family); net income of $43 million against a prior three-year average of $18 million (bottom 18%); a net margin of a loss larger than its revenue against losses larger than its revenue before (bottom 3%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-68.7%bottom 3% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-141%bottom 18% of its family
  • net margin against its prior averagedown more than 100 pointsbottom 3% 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 LODE · research, not advice