ZeroStack Corp.

ZSTK · Industrials · $1.5M mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

No moat
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The five investor questions

Revenue & EPS trend34

2022–2025 (latest 4 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $33.4M to $35.7M, increasing; diluted EPS -6.84 to -43.49, decreasing. 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%.

Pricing power13

Median gross margin 23.3% over 5y, variable.

Returns on capital0

Median ROIC -103.1%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.

Balance-sheet safety28

Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage 0x.

Capital discipline44

Owner earnings trend unclear, share count n/a.

Price vs. conservative owner-earnings floor

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

Above owner-earnings floorBelow owner-earnings floor
No price data
Owner earnings (normalized)
Not reported
Owner-earnings floor / share
Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
Capped-growth comparison / share
Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
Recent price
$1.45
Price vs. owner-earnings floor
No price data

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

Cohort context: median current price is 239% above the floor across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.

Score records captured Jul 26, 2026.

Exactly which 50 companies?

FTNT, META, MEDP, IBEX, MSFT, GOOGL, LULU, ANF, IDXX, TXRH, FHI, QLYS, FFIV, ADBE, LLY, MANH, VEEV, GRMN, SSD, MNST, DOCS, MCO, CPRT, NTAP, LRCX, NVDA, CORT, SFM, MPTI, ULTA, SN, RMD, ROL, PAYC, IRMD, INTU, DECK, MORN, LGCY, DAL, GWW, ISRG, MPWR, CTAS, LOPE, MRK, CMG, FAST, BKNG, ORLY

Missing a usable price or floor: ANF, BKNG.

Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth floor 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.

6 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

ZeroStack Corp. booked $35.7M of revenue in FY2025 in the Industrials sector and kept 4.6% of it as gross profit — a thin-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −335.6% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

It earned −103.1% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 5-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was −103.1%. Over the v3 recent window (5 measurable filed years), median ROIC was −103.1%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 0/100.

The balance sheet carried $53.5M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 28/100.

Put together: Capital Discipline is the strongest of the five filters (44/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (0/100), which is how ZSTK lands at 24/100 — a None moat.

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.

FY2020–FY2025 · 6 fiscal years, normalized from ZSTK’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$35.7M FY2025
$0$50M2020202220242025
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods4.6% FY2025
0%20%40%2020202220242025
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed−103.1% FY2025
−1000%−500%0%2020202220242025
Owner earningsCash an owner could take out−$119M FY2025
−$100M−$50M$02020202220242025

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

1 logged reading since Jul 26, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale23.8 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 26, 2026

Score history begins Jul 26, 2026 — the record builds from here and can’t be backfilled.

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

None yet — ZSTK has read No moat for every logged capture since Jul 26, 2026.

Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record can’t be backfilled, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.

Industrials context

#379 of 428 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

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  2. #378SMXT SolarMax Technology, Inc.24.0 out of 100, No moatNo moat
  3. #380WHR WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/23.7 out of 100, No moatNo moat
  4. #381CHSCP CHS Inc.23.3 out of 100, No moatNo moat

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Common questions about ZSTK

Does ZeroStack Corp. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores ZeroStack Corp. (ZSTK) 23.8 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 34, pricing power 13, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 28, capital discipline 44.
How has ZSTK's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 1 reading since Jul 26, 2026; the latest reads 23.8 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.