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CPI Card Group Inc. (PMTS)

NASDAQ / Financial Services / Financial - Credit Services

Share price

25.70 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

297.9M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 5, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
12, FY2013 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

12.8% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

19.47x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

13.5% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 308.7M USDFY2016 Net income: 5.4M USDFY2017 Revenue: 223.7M USDFY2017 Net income: -22.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 255.8M USDFY2018 Net income: -37.5M USDFY2019 Revenue: 278.1M USDFY2019 Net income: -5.1M USDFY2020 Revenue: 312.2M USDFY2020 Net income: 16.1M USDFY2021 Revenue: 375.1M USDFY2021 Net income: 15.9M USDFY2022 Revenue: 475.7M USDFY2022 Net income: 36.5M USDFY2023 Revenue: 444.5M USDFY2023 Net income: 24.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 480.6M USDFY2024 Net income: 19.5M USDFY2025 Revenue: 543.5M USDFY2025 Net income: 14.9M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
2 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 19.47x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Financial - Credit Services industry (43 companies), 19.47x sits at the 74th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 6.66x to 19.92x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 12.8% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (75 companies), 12.8% sits at the 80th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -0.5% to 9.4%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 4.08x in FY2025, in the band labelled "High, covenant territory" (4.00x and above), on lines set by credit-analyst convention, suggesting debt in the range lenders write covenants around.

Year by year against peers
Whether CPI Card Group Inc.'s gross margin stayed above the median of the Financial Services sector, year by year. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 fiscal years of CPI Card Group Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way CPI Card Group Inc.'s gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of CPI Card Group Inc.)
What could explain it
What in CPI Card Group Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines CPI Card Group Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on CPI Card Group Inc., and where in its filings. (2 questions for CPI Card Group Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on CPI Card Group Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (12 of sixteen figures read for CPI Card Group Inc.)

These are PMTS’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-023812.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

CPI Card Group Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax12.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Return on equity
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Return on capital employed, pre-tax17.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Return on assets3.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Gross margin31.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Operating margin10.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Net margin2.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
PMTS 2.8%
LX 12.8%CURR -48.7%ANTA 30.7%
-48.7%30.7%
Net margin: PMTS against the 3 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

CPI Card Group Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/m

Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Current ratio2.44 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Quick ratio1.58 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Altman Z-score
Why n/m

Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Net debt315.8M ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Total assets 403.2MTotal liabilities 420.5MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity (zero or below, not drawn)
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What CPI Card Group Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812).

CPI Card Group Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets403.2M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026
Total liabilities420.5M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026
Shareholders' equity-17.3M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026
Cash21.7M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026
Total debt337.5M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026
Net debt315.8M
Current ratio2.44
Debt to equityn/m
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

CPI Card Group Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings19.47x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
P/E on trailing twelve months22.35x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Price to sales0.56x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Enterprise value to EBIT11.34x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Enterprise value to EBITDA8.05x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Diluted earnings per share1.25 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value PMTS on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for CPI Card Group Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

CPI Card Group Inc: valuation
Share price25.70 USD
Market capitalisation297.9M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA8.05x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY20251.25 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Nov 10, 2016: low 4.33x, median 12.90x, high 165.00x, latest 22.35x. 1,676 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 819 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like CPI Card Group Inc

  1. LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. (LX)Market cap 115.1M USD
  2. Currenc Group, Inc. (CURR)Market cap 299.8M USD
  3. Antalpha Platform Holding Company (ANTA)Market cap 55.9M USD

Same industry (Financial - Credit Services) and size band (Micro, 50M to 300M), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

CPI Card Group Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield13.5% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Free cash flow41.3M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Free cash flow margin7.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
FY2016 Free cash flow: 45.7M USDFY2016 Net income: 5.4M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: -4.8M USDFY2017 Net income: -22.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.4M USDFY2018 Net income: -37.5M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -1.2M USDFY2019 Net income: -5.1M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 15.0M USDFY2020 Net income: 16.1M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 10.2M USDFY2021 Net income: 15.9M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 13.5M USDFY2022 Net income: 36.5M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 27.6M USDFY2023 Net income: 24.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 34.1M USDFY2024 Net income: 19.5M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 41.3M USDFY2025 Net income: 14.9M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

CPI Card Group Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
19.47xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
11.34xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
13.5%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
12.8%FY2025Mar 5, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
n/mFY2025Mar 5, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
2.44FY2025Mar 5, 2026
0.56xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
-2.23FY2025Mar 5, 2026
4/9FY2025Mar 5, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 12 filed fiscal years on record, FY2013 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports CPI Card Group Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

CPI Card Group Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025543.5M54.8M14.9M1.2541.3M10.1%n/m10-K, Mar 5, 20260001104659-26-023812
FY2024480.6M62.8M19.5M1.6434.1M13.1%n/m10-K, Mar 4, 20250001558370-25-002098
FY2023444.5M61.6M24.0M2.0127.6M13.8%n/m10-K, Mar 7, 20240001558370-24-002670
FY2022475.7M79.1M36.5M3.1113.5M16.6%n/m10-K, Mar 8, 20230001558370-23-003082
FY2021375.1M59.5M15.9M1.3610.2M15.8%n/m10-K, Mar 8, 20220001558370-22-003016
FY2020312.2M38.4M16.1M1.4415.0M12.3%n/m10-K, Feb 25, 20210001558370-21-001721
FY2019278.1M24.7M-5.1M-0.46-1.2M8.9%n/m10-K, Mar 6, 20200001558370-20-002144
FY2018255.8M4.6M-37.5M-3.361.4M1.8%n/m10-K, Mar 6, 20190001558370-19-001550
FY2017223.7M-19.3M-22.0M-1.98-4.8M-8.6%n/m10-K, Mar 13, 20180001558370-18-001943
FY2016308.7M29.0M5.4M0.4845.7M9.4%n/m10-K, Mar 2, 20170001558370-17-001271
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.5%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 12.0%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 11.2%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -1.1%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

CPI Card Group Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.23 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2026, 0001104659-26-023812
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta1.73 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 21 not met, 7 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-flow yield and ROIC
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
High returns and growth; High yield, low payout; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(13)
  • Current Ratio: Graham set this test for industrial companies.
  • Debt to Equity: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
  • P/B Ratio: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
  • Altman Z-Score: Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Equity: Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 13 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Debt to Equity, P/B Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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