HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.

HWNI · Communications · $2232 mkt cap · FY2024 filings · · No moat ·

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The five investor questions

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2021–2024 (latest 4 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $27.2M to $8.4M, decreasing; diluted EPS -76.00 to -0.40, increasing. Latest-filed diluted EPS remains usable for Business Trend, but an integer share-count change lacks enough evidence to confirm a comparable EPS basis; valuation growth therefore stays at 0%.

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Median gross margin 32.4% over 10y, variable.

Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital.

28

Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage -7x.

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Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations, 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. value if growth stopped today

A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.

Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
No price data
Not reported
Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
$0.00
No price data

This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.

Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 238% above the zero-growth estimate across 49 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.

Score records captured Sep 4, 2026.

Exactly which 50 companies?

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Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF.

Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 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.

18 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC. booked $8.4M of revenue in FY2024 in the Communications sector and kept 30.1% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −4.6% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue grew from $2606 (FY2011) to $8.4M (FY2024) — about 86.1% a year compounded over 13 years.

HWNI's latest filed year, FY2024, doesn't disclose total debt in a form the methodology can use, so current leverage is treated as unmeasured — never assumed to be zero.

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.

FY2007–FY2024 · 18 fiscal years, normalized from HWNI’s SEC filings

Sales, as filed$8.4M FY2024
$0$20M2007201320192024
Revenue kept after cost of goods30.1% FY2024
0%50%100%2007201320192024
Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICStandard ROIC −125.4% FY2020

Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.. Exact FY and FY-1 Operating Invested Capital inputs are required.

−100%−50%0%2007201320192024
Cash an owner could take out$396026 FY2024
−$20M−$10M$02007201320192024

The explained ROIC gaps have filed inputs but no meaningful positive invested-capital denominator. Other gaps mean the item is not in the 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.

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How HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC. makes its money

HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.'s filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of revenueSource
$8.4M100%
Cost of revenue$5.9M70%
$2.5M30%
−$8.6M−102%
Income before tax−$10.1M−121%
−$384826−5%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Sep 4, 2026 · annual-row source set

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What HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC. owns — and owes

HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.'s filing tags don't support a full breakdown — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of assetsSource
Total assets$5.8M100%
Cash and equivalents$2208244%
Stockholders’ equity−$1.8M−32%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Sep 4, 2026 · annual-row source set

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What drives HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.’s return on equity?

ROE is five filed business factors multiplied together.

DuPont return on equity factor treeReturn on equity branches into tax burden, interest burden, operating margin, asset turnover, and the equity multiplier.Return on equity17%Tax burden4%net income ÷ pretax incomeInterest burden118%pretax ÷ operating incomeOperating margin−102%operating income ÷ revenueAsset turnover1.01×revenue ÷ average assetsEquity multiplier-3.61×average assets ÷ average equityAs of 2024-12-31 · 2 SEC filing sourcesBuy Like Buffett · buylikebuffett.com
DuPont source inputs
InputValueFiscal yearSource
−$384826FY2024
Income before tax−$10.1MFY2024
Operating income−$8.6MFY2024
$8.4MFY2024
Ending assets$5.8MFY2024
Beginning assets$10.8MFY2023
−$1.8MFY2024
−$2.7MFY2023
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Sep 4, 2026 · annual-row source set
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Where HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.'s cash went

HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of cash from operationsSource
Cash from operations−$6.1M−100%
Depreciation and amortization$79483813%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2024 · retrieved Sep 4, 2026 · annual-row source set

Curated 19-manager tier

Who reported holding HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.

Delayed public 13F reports for 2026-Q2—not live positions, trades, or recommendations.

0 holding0 exited0 not holding0/19 resolved19 not retrieved

Named manager positions and quarter-over-quarter changes
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Abrams CapitalNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Akre CapitalNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Baupost GroupNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Berkshire HathawayNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Brave Warrior AdvisorsNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Dodge & CoxNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
First EagleNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
FundsmithNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Gardner Russo & QuinnNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Gates Foundation TrustNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Mairs & PowerNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Markel / Markel-GaynerNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Oakmark / Harris AssociatesNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Pershing SquareNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Polen CapitalNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Sequoia / Ruane CunniffNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Southeastern Asset ManagementNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Tweedy, BrowneNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved
Yacktman Asset ManagementNot retrievedComparison not retrievedFiling not retrieved

Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.

Source: Filing source not retrieved · event Jun 30, 2026 · retrieved Sep 4, 2026

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What HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC. insiders reported

The complete Form 4 source snapshot retrieved on Sep 4, 2026 contains no transaction rows.

Verified empty: the retrieved source snapshot contains no transaction event.

Source snapshot retrieved 2026-09-04T07:00:16.464Z · SEC Form 4

Moat Score history

16 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale33.0 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 20, 2026Sep 4, 2026

Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.

Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars

  1. Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)tomoat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
  2. Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0tomoat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
  3. 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 cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.

Insider activity

Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”

These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.

This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.

No reported Form 4 transactions were found in the complete checked issuer window for HWNI, . The totals and cluster result below are arithmetic over that certified window.

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P purchases minus S sales only, Sep 5, 2025Sep 5, 2026.
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Only P and S are included; awards, gifts, exercises, withholding, and other mechanics are excluded.
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Requires at least 3 distinct insiders with P purchases.

Transaction-code histogram

Supporting event counts for the same certified window, Sep 5, 2025Sep 5, 2026.

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Track record

How HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.’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.

Point-in-time scores 20112025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight

Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year

How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored HWNI on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.

0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatPoint-in-time Moat Score0.5125102050100Indexed price · log scale (2023 = 100)201120142017202020232026

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 reconstructed history shown, HWNI did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.

Communications context

#81 of 134 scored Communications companies, ranked by Moat Score.

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Common questions about HWNI

Does HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2024 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC. (HWNI) 33.0 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no 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 33, pricing power 27, returns on capital not measurable from the filings, balance-sheet safety 28, capital allocation 44.
How has HWNI's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 16 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 33.0 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.