EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
EDUC · Industrials · $12.4M mkt cap · FY2026 filings · Narrow moat ·
Wonderful & reasonably priced
The five investor questions
2011–2026: revenue 27243200.00 to 22913600.00, decreasing; diluted EPS 0.15 to 0.27, increasing.
Median gross margin 67.3% over 10y, very stable.
Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital.
Net cash position — no leverage risk.
Owner earnings +1.2%/yr, share count n/a.
The returnsOnCapital component abstained: Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.
Price vs. owner-earnings value range
- Owner earnings (normalized)
- $2.2M
- Value range / share
- $2.89–$2.89
- Conservative high estimate / share
- $2.89
- Recent price
- $1.46
- Price vs. high estimate
- 49% below high estimate
Conservative range under moat-index@2.0.0: low end 11.1×, high end capped at 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
17 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION booked $22.9M of revenue in FY2026 in the Industrials sector and kept 59.4% of it as gross profit — a high-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 10.1% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $27.2M (FY2011) to $22.9M (FY2026) — about −1.1% a year compounded over 15 years.
The balance sheet carried $0 of total debt in FY2026 against $3.2M of owner earnings — roughly 0.0 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 78/100.
The share count rose 117.9% between FY2011 and FY2026 — existing owners have been diluted over the record. Capital Discipline scores it 42/100.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
Not disclosed in EDUC’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in EDUC’s filings for that year — the series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Moat Score history
Tier changesSame-methodology crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record can’t be backfilled, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Track record
How EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored EDUC on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the 1 year EDUC rated Wide-moat (2012), the median forward total return that followed — measured only after each year’s filings were public — was:
- 1 year −1% vs the S&P 500’s 25% (price basis) · median over 1 year
- 3 years 256% vs the S&P 500’s 38% (price basis) · median over 1 year
- 5 years 524% vs the S&P 500’s 84% (price basis) · median over 1 year
These are medians computed from the data, not a claim about any one year. The company figures are total returns (dividends reinvested); the S&P 500 is the price-only ^GSPC index, which excludes dividends and so understates the index — the gap flatters the company. A quality rating is not a return forecast, and past returns don’t predict future ones. Educational only, not investment advice.
Industrials context
#82 of 423 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
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Common questions about EDUC
- Does EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have an economic moat?
- Based on its FY2026 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (EDUC) 66.7 out of 100 — a Narrow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 51, pricing power 96, returns on capital not measurable from the filings, balance-sheet safety 78, capital discipline 42.
- Is EDUC trading below the conservative owner-earnings estimate?
- The owner-earnings value range is $2.89–$2.89 per share. It capitalizes normalized owner earnings at a 9% rate; the low end assumes 0% growth and the high end uses 0% growth, capped at 4% and 18×. Versus a recent price of $1.46, that is 49% below high estimate relative to the high estimate. This is a conservative educational estimate from primary SEC filings, not intrinsic value as a fact or investment advice.
- How has EDUC's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 8 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 66.7 out of 100 (narrow moat). No tier changes on record yet. (A methodology upgrade on Jul 20, 2026 re-based the score; readings across engine versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.