VYSTAR CORPORATION

VYST · Materials · $3.5M mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

No moat
Share / Embed this score
Embed this score

The five investor questions

Revenue & EPS trend20

2010–2025: revenue 861982.00 to 54821.00, decreasing; diluted EPS -0.22 to -0.08, increasing. 1 fiscal year was not jointly reported; CAGR uses the full 15-year elapsed span. Diluted EPS was derived from net income and diluted weighted-average shares in 4 years where the direct tag was absent.

Pricing power51

Median gross margin 47.7% over 10y, variable.

Returns on capital

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

Balance-sheet safety28

Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage -3x.

Capital discipline44

Owner earnings trend unclear, 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

Above estimateBelow estimate
No price data
Owner earnings (normalized)
Value range / share
Conservative high estimate / share
Recent price
$0.14
Price vs. high estimate
No price data

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

VYSTAR CORPORATION booked $54821 of revenue in FY2025 in the Materials sector and kept 58.0% of it as gross profit — a high-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −2793.9% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $861982 (FY2010) to $54821 (FY2025) — about −16.8% a year compounded over 15 years.

The balance sheet carried $4.3M of total debt in FY2021. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 28/100.

The share count rose 59.7% between FY2010 and FY2025 — existing owners have been diluted over the record. Capital Discipline scores it 44/100.

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.

FY2009–FY2025 · 17 fiscal years, normalized from VYST’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$54821 FY2025
$0$10M$20M2009201520212025
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods58.0% FY2025
−200%0%2009201520212025
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed

Not disclosed in VYST’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.

Owner earningsCash an owner could take out−$1.5M FY2025
−$5M$02009201520212025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in VYST’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

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

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale35.6 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 20, 2026Jul 21, 2026

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

  1. 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 VYSTAR 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.

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

As-of 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 VYST on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.

0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatAs-of Moat Score0.10.20.5125102050100Indexed price · log scale (2012 = 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, VYST 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.

Materials context

#191 of 304 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #189FANG Diamondback Energy, Inc.35.8 out of 100, No moatNo moat
  2. #190LTBR LIGHTBRIDGE CORPORATION35.7 out of 100, No moatNo moat
  3. #192CBUS Cibus, Inc.35.4 out of 100, No moatNo moat
  4. #193RITE MINERALRITE CORPORATION35.3 out of 100, No moatNo moat

Compare VYST with its nearest peersAll Materials companies on the Index →

Common questions about VYST

Does VYSTAR CORPORATION have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores VYSTAR CORPORATION (VYST) 35.6 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 20, pricing power 51, returns on capital not measurable from the filings, balance-sheet safety 28, capital discipline 44.
How has VYST's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 8 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 35.6 out of 100 (no 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.