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
n/aComputed
From the FY2025 filing
Why n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
Operating margin was -6.9% in FY2025. No published threshold exists for operating margin, so its standing against peers is the reading.
Today, against the Energy sector (207 companies), -6.9% sits at the 18th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.1% to 23.5%.
Is it safe
Current ratio was 0.79 in FY2025, in the band labelled "Short-term liabilities exceed short-term assets" (below 1.00), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria, suggesting short-term obligations above short-term assets.
Today, against the Energy sector (252 companies), 0.79 sits at the 21st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.87 to 2.19.
Year by year against peers
Whether Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock's operating margin stayed above the median of the Energy sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock's gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2025, 8 filed years of Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock)
What could explain it
What in Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock's filed statements could explain the movements. (3 readings drawn from the statement lines Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock, and where in its filings. (4 questions for Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (5 of sixteen figures read for Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock)
These are SMXT’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 Apr 6, 2026, accession 0001640334-26-000651.
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Quality
The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.
SEC filingComputed
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
Figure
Value, source and document
Return on invested capital, after taxWhy n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
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.
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: balance sheet position
Total assets
91.3MFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026
Total liabilities
103.5MFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026
Shareholders' equity
-12.2MFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026
Cash
8.0MFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026
Total debt
n/aFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026
Net debt
n/a
Current ratio
0.79
Debt to equity
n/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: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).
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
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: what the market charges, each with its source
Figure
Value, source and document
Price to earningsWhy n/m
Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026, 0001640334-26-000651
P/E on trailing twelve monthsWhy n/a
Fewer than twenty trading days carry a meaningful trailing price to earnings ratio, so no range is stated.
n/aComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to bookWhy 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/mComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026, 0001640334-26-000651
Price to sales
0.24xComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026, 0001640334-26-000651
Enterprise value to EBITWhy n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
n/aComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026, 0001640334-26-000651
Enterprise value to EBITDAWhy n/m
EBITDA is zero or negative, so a multiple of it is not meaningful.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026, 0001640334-26-000651
Price to earnings over growthWhy n/m
Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Apr 6, 2026, 0001640334-26-000651
Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value SMXT 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 Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: valuation
Share price
5.16 USD
Market capitalisation
24.5M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA
n/m
Graham number
n/m
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025
-1.56 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025: -0.13 as filed, -1.56 after the 1-for-12 split on 13 Aug 2026.
Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: Fewer than twenty trading days carry a meaningful trailing price to earnings ratio, so no range is stated.
Companies like Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock
Same industry (Solar) and size band (Nano, under 50M), 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.
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.
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
Figure
Value
Year
As of
n/m
FY2025
Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaShare price / earnings per share. Where the filing states no earnings per share this listing can be priced on, which is every 20-F and 40-F filer because theirs is stated per ordinary share, it is market capitalisation / net income: the same multiple, undiluted.
As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Formula(Market capitalisation + total debt - cash) / operating income, or over the filing's own EBIT (income before tax + interest expense) where the filer tags no operating line, as Johnson & Johnson does not in any of its ten filed years.
As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
FormulaVendor trailing-twelve-month return on invested capital where one is published, which uses after-tax operating profit over total assets less current liabilities. Otherwise our own recompute: NOPAT / (shareholders equity + total debt - cash) x 100, where NOPAT is the filed operating profit after tax, or the filing's own EBIT after tax where the filer tags no operating line.
As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025.
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.
FormulaCommon dividends paid in the latest filed year / market capitalisation x 100. n/a where the filing cannot support it: a special or first-year payment, a total that mixes preferred dividends, or a cash-flow statement over 15 months old.
As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
Formula1.2 x working capital/assets + 1.4 x retained earnings/assets + 3.3 x EBIT/assets + 0.6 x market value of equity/total liabilities + 1.0 x revenue/assets
As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
FormulaAn eight-variable index of year-on-year changes in receivables, gross margin, asset quality, revenue, depreciation, overheads, leverage and accruals
As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025.
FormulaOne point each for: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, operating cash flow above net income, falling leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, rising asset turnover.
As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025.
The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 4 filed fiscal years on record, FY2022 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
8 fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2025. 4 read from the annual reports Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock filed with the SEC, each naming its filing; the rest from statements that name none, which are market data. Amounts in USD, as reported.
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2025: 0.3%
Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2017 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2022 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2017 and 2024, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
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
Solarmax Technology Inc. Common Stock: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 18 not met, 12 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
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); 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
Not measured
Deep value; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High yield, low payout; ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(19)
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.
P/E Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
EV/EBIT: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Return on Invested Capital: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
PEG Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
Eps Growth 5Y: 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.
EV/EBITDA: EBITDA is zero or negative, so a multiple of it is not meaningful.
Interest Coverage: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).
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.
Free Cash Flow Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
ROIC-WACC Spread: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Price To Graham: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
Capex To Ocf: 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.
A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.
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What this cannot tell you
19 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, P/B Ratio, P/E Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 12 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
We hold 4 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.
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.
Running this once is arithmetic on public documents and you are welcome to it. Writing down why you own each company, in your own words and with the numbers that have to stay true for it to hold, and then having those numbers re-checked every night against the newest filed accounts, and against the latest close where a rule watches a price, is Professional, the plan a new account starts on for 30 days, one trial per person. It writes to you the day one breaks, and stays quiet when nothing does. The check runs every night at 23:30 UTC. A filing is picked up the night after it is published.
ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.
A computation on accounts filed with the SEC, not a recommendation and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.
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