{ "ok": true, "cik": "783412", "ticker": "DJCO", "name": "DAILY JOURNAL CORPORATION", "filings": [ { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-09-11", "items": [ "5.03 Amendments to Articles or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year", "5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders", "8.01 Other Events", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774926030183/0001437749-26-030183-index.htm" }, { "form": "10-Q", "filed": "2026-08-12", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774926027344/0001437749-26-027344-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-08-12", "items": [ "2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774926027322/0001437749-26-027322-index.htm" }, { "form": "DEF 14A", "filed": "2026-07-30", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774926025084/0001437749-26-025084-index.htm" }, { "form": "10-Q", "filed": "2026-05-14", "items": [], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774926017059/0001437749-26-017059-index.htm" }, { "form": "8-K", "filed": "2026-05-14", "items": [ "2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits" ], "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774926017058/0001437749-26-017058-index.htm" } ], "events12m": 10, "sources": { "facts": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000783412.json", "filings": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=783412" }, "license": "Figures as filed with the SEC. Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up DAILY JOURNAL CORPORATION ($DJCO). Last filing: 8-K (5.03 Amendments to Articles or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year), 2026-09-11. 10 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-09-30", "revenue": 87700000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.2540933205588365, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.15125195301863403, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.10864310148232612, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.05820022593699504, "netMargin": 1.278643101482326, "operatingCashFlow": 13333000, "capitalSpending": 8000, "freeCashFlow": 13325000, "researchAndDevelopment": null, "researchShareOfRevenue": null, "cash": 20569000, "longTermDebt": null, "longTermDebtChange": null, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2021-09-30", "revenue": 49925000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-09-30", "revenue": 54009000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-09-30", "revenue": 67709000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-09-30", "revenue": 69931000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-09-30", "revenue": 87700000 } ], "totalEquity": 391061000, "totalAssets": 548118000, "equityRatio": 0.7134613349680179, "returnOnEquity": 0.28675066038290703, "dividendsPaid": null, "payoutRatio": null, "dividendPerShare": null, "dividendYearsRising": null, "dividendCut": null, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "range80": { "low": 78184090.51641974, "high": 140388328.76759496, "baseline": 106532348.43496354, "n": 749, "band": "b00" }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 78184090.51641974, "high": 140388328.76759496 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $87.7M (FY2025). Experience: revenue up 25.4% on the year, up 15.1% a year over 4 years; operating margin 10.9%, up from 5.8%. Soundness: equity 71.3% of assets, return on equity 28.7%. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $78.2M and $140.4M next year (method v3, set from 749 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (10 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 10.9% against a 10.5% median; growth 25.4% against 0.3%.", "peers": { "sic": 2711, "sicDescription": "Newspapers: Publishing or Publishing & Printing", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 2, "group": "27", "growth": [ 0.003, 12 ], "opMargin": [ 0.1049, 10 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.2928, 11 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.1342, 9 ] }, "summary": "Daily Journal (DJCO) grew revenue 25.4% in FY2025 to $88 million, operating margin 10.9%, in line with the 10.5% median for newspapers: publishing or publishing & printing, equity 71.3% of assets. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
DAILY JOURNAL CORPORATION against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 10.5%10.9%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 0.3%25.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 29.3%71.3%Return on equityPeer median 13.4%28.7%Gold tick: the median of 9–11 peers with $50M+ revenue in newspapers: publishing or publishing & printing
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