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Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up QUANTUM CORP /DE/ ($QMCO). Last filing: 8-K (5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders), 2026-09-17. 16 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months. Auditor change (8-K Item 4.01) filed 2025-10-06. Non-reliance (8-K Item 4.02) filed 2025-08-08.", "auditor": { "changes": [ { "filed": "2025-10-06", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/709283/000070928325000061/0000709283-25-000061-index.htm" } ], "nonReliance": [ { "filed": "2025-08-08", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/709283/000070928325000021/0000709283-25-000021-index.htm" } ], "restatedSince": true }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-03-31", "revenue": 279581000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.02015266841325558, "revenueGrowthPerYear": -0.07593009853059984, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": -0.08765617119904429, "operatingMarginPrior": -0.1520845952316663, "netMargin": -0.36141940975960457, "operatingCashFlow": -37856000, "capitalSpending": 1706000, "freeCashFlow": -39562000, "researchAndDevelopment": 23503000, "researchShareOfRevenue": 0.0840650831065058, "cash": 15572000, "longTermDebt": 90034000, "longTermDebtChange": null, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-03-31", "revenue": 383432000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-03-31", "revenue": 422077000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-03-31", "revenue": 311600000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-03-31", "revenue": 274058000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-03-31", "revenue": 279581000 } ], "totalEquity": -198857000, "totalAssets": 156892000, "equityRatio": -1.267476990541264, "returnOnEquity": null, "dividendsPaid": null, "payoutRatio": null, "dividendPerShare": null, "dividendYearsRising": null, "dividendCut": null, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. 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Against peers (35 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin -8.8% against a 3.1% median; growth 2.0% against 6.6%.", "peers": { "sic": 3572, "sicDescription": "Computer Storage Devices", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 3, "group": "357", "growth": [ 0.0656, 37 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0313, 35 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.327, 37 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0502, 30 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.4212, 10 ] }, "summary": "Quantum (QMCO) grew revenue 2.0% in FY2026 to $280 million, operating margin -8.8% against a 3.1% median for computer storage devices, equity -127% of assets. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
QUANTUM CORP /DE/ against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 3.1%-8.8%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 6.6%2.0%Equity of assetsPeer median 32.7%-126.7%Gold tick: the median of 37–37 peers with $50M+ revenue in computer storage devices
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