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RESEARCH FRONTIERS INC (REFR) is a patent owners & lessors company. Piotroski F-Score 3/7. Fundamentals from SEC filings; prices are end-of-day.
What’s behind REFR’s latest move — the size, how unusual the volume is, and the catalyst on the tape, explained and cited to the source.
End-of-day bars · delayed, not real-time · data: Databento · studies computed in your browser from these barsCharting by TradingView Lightweight Charts™
FY ending 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31. original 1968 formula; calibrated on manufacturers, read financials/REITs with care
No sensitivity grid: free cash flow is not positive, so the DCF gives no value at any growth or discount rate.
Estimates, not targets. The DCF treats free cash flow as cash flow to equity and divides by shares (the common retail shortcut — it skips net debt and a full WACC), so it’s a sanity-check, not a valuation opinion. All inputs are from REFR’s SEC filings; change any assumption above and the numbers update live. Educational only — not investment advice.
A plain-English read on REFR plus an auto-SWOT — built from REFR's SEC filings and market data, every point cited, nothing invented. Educational, not investment advice.
Four AI analysts — a bull, a bear, a risk manager, and a PM — debate REFR using only the SEC-filing and market facts below. Every point cites its evidence; nothing is invented. This is educational research, not investment advice.
Educational only — not financial advice. Data from SEC EDGAR public filings; no live market data is shown. Figures reflect the company's own reported XBRL facts and may lag.
XBRL company facts, SEC EDGAR. TTM = last four reported quarters. Valuation ratios arrive with a price source — we don't fake quotes.
↓ Download the fiscal-year statement table: XLSX · CSV · revenue, income, EPS, cash flow, balance sheet · from SEC XBRL, dated
As filed. We do not recategorize line items. Each chart plots one XBRL concept exactly as REFR tagged it: revenue us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax, net income us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss, EPS us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted, period by period; a period the company did not tag on its own is left out, not estimated. A figure that disagrees with the filing is a bug in our extraction, not a policy, and we fix it: report a mismatch.
No lawmaker has disclosed a trade in REFR under the STOCK Act.
Projected from REFR's own SEC 8-K filing history — the year-over-year reporting pattern (about 47% land the exact day, about 91% within a week, measured across 4,713 past reports). No analyst estimates and nothing invented, and every confirmed date links to the source it came from, so you can check it yourself. It upgrades the momentREFR files or announces.
Earnings dates are the company's 8-K Item 2.02 filings (SEC). Reactions from Databento EOD.
None of the 5 estimators could run on REFR's filings.
One estimator is a point estimate, not a range, so no band and no valuation label are published for REFR. Below is everything that was checked, so the refusal can be read rather than taken on trust.
Nothing produced a value.
No fiscal year of price history was on record; the historical multiples need 5. No sector peer set is priced for REFR, so sector medians could not fill the gaps.
Every refusal recorded for REFR → · How often we decline, and why →
No tracked institution reported a position in REFR in the latest 13F round.
Every registered fund files its complete portfolio with the SEC. These weights come from those filings, so each one carries the period it describes. Holdings are quarterly and filed in arrears — the figures below are as of 2026-06-30, not today.
| Fund | Weight | As of |
|---|---|---|
| VTI Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF | <0.01% | 2026-06-30 |
Drawn from 39 large US equity funds we scan, not every fund in existence, so a missing fund means we do not scan it rather than that it holds none. Holdings are joined to tickers by issuer name, which does not resolve every position; what that misses is published.
No open-market Form 4 buys or sells reported for REFR in the last ~6 months.
1 of the 2 checks that ran found nothing new for REFR; 1 found something. 2 could not run.
Each event check looks back 30 days from the date its own source was stored, read or generated, never from the date this page was built. A check that finds nothing is a measurement of that window, not a forecast, and a check that cannot be dated does not make the claim at all.
Head office: WOODBURY, New York, United States · the company’s charter and its head office are in different states.
Source: the cover page of RESEARCH FRONTIERS INC’s 10-Q filed 2026-08-06, on EDGAR. Filings checked 2026-10-22. Incorporation is where the company’s charter was filed. It is not where the business operates or earns, which no filing cover states. How this works