U S Global Investors
Through the investors’ lenses
0 of 3 cleared1 of 6 criteria
Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.
Warren Buffett 0/3
| Measure | GROW | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner earnings | $-280.00k | positive | ✗ |
| Return on equity | -0.7% | US median 2.8% | ✗ |
| Debt to equity | — | US median 0.57x | — |
| Operating margin | -35.3% | US median 3.1% | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 3. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to U S Global Investors’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
Benjamin Graham 1/2
| Measure | GROW | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | 20.87x | 2.00x published | ✓ |
| Long-term debt to working capital | — | 1.00x published | — |
| Positive earnings, ten years running | 0 yrs | 10 published | ✗ |
Passes 1 of 2. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to U S Global Investors’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
Peter Lynch 0/1
| Measure | GROW | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to equity | — | US median 0.57x | — |
| Net margin | -4.0% | US median 2.0% | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 1. These are the measures Peter Lynch published, applied to U S Global Investors’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
| Basis | Payout | Why |
|---|---|---|
| GAAP earnings | negative | whyLost $0.0300 per share — no earnings to pay from. |
| Operating cash flow | negative | whyOperations consumed $822k of cash rather than producing any, so no ratio exists. |
| Free cash flow | negative | whyOperating cash flow was $829k short of capital spending, so no ratio exists. The dividend was not funded from free cash flow this year. |
Nothing is marked as applying, deliberately — no basis produces a ratio. Earnings, operating cash flow and free cash flow are all negative, so there is no denominator to divide the dividend by. That is not a gap in the data; it is the answer. The dividend was funded from something other than the money the business made this year — borrowing, cash on hand, or asset sales — and the filing will say which.
Coverage rating 3 / 100 — Not covered. ? Peer standing 3/50Direction 0/30Stability 0/20
Against its own history: 164.5% this year vs 19.0% median over the prior 5. A gap this size is usually a one-off — acquisition, settlement, cyclical trough — not a dividend that stopped being funded. The rating reads the latest year; the table shows the trend.
Free cash flow payout, last 6 years
| Fiscal year | Payout |
|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | 164.5% |
| 2023-06-30 | 46.0% |
| 2022-06-30 | 12.0% |
| 2021-06-30 | 13.6% |
| 2017-06-30 | 66.1% |
| 2016-06-30 | 19.0% |
Coverage worsened sharply this year, 46.0% to 164.5%, after no clear trend before it. One year is not a trend, but it is worth knowing which direction the last one moved.
5% of the 39 financial services here pay out more — at the demanding end.
The arithmetic
- GAAP earnings — dividends declared per share $0.0075 ÷ diluted EPS $-0.0300
- Operating cash flow — dividends paid $1.21m ÷ operating cash flow $-822k
- Free cash flow — dividends paid $1.21m ÷ (operating cash flow $-822k − capex $7k)
Where the figures came from
- 10-K filed 2025-09-08 · accession 0001437749-25-028574
Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take our word for any of it.
Caveats on this company
- DPS $0.01 filed as paid, but dividends paid imply $0.09 — one of the two underlying facts is wrong. The filed per-share figure is used.
Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell us — that is more useful to us than agreement.
Also on: rated not covered · when it files.
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