CuriosityStream
CURI on Nasdaq. CuriosityStream sells documentary streaming subscriptions to viewers worldwide. Market value $173m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $3.08 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
Quality score: 48 of 100. Price score: 17 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$2.94 a share, 28% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $2.30 to $5.38.
Dividend: 11.0% a year
Paid every year for 2 years
Yields this high often come before a cut. Check the company's latest news.
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $5 million in the past 12 months, $13 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $71m | $78m | $57m | $51m | $72m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | -73.6% | -70.8% | -78.2% | -26.1% | -10.2% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.05bn | 0.05bn | 0.06bn | 0.06bn | 0.06bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive2 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)3 of 7 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)No
- DebtUnknown
- Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 12.6% a year
- Buying back its own sharesNo, 12% more shares since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $23 million last quarter, up 22% on a year ago.
- Profit: $9 million, up 1033% on a year ago.
- It keeps 0 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, after losing 11 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $5 million, down from $10 million.
- 3% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $13m |
| December 2024 | $14m |
| March 2025 | $15m |
| June 2025 | $19m |
| September 2025 | $18m |
| December 2025 | $19m |
| March 2026 | $15m |
| June 2026 | $23m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | -$3m |
| December 2024 | -$3m |
| March 2025 | $319,000 |
| June 2025 | $784,000 |
| September 2025 | -$4m |
| December 2025 | -$4m |
| March 2026 | -$1m |
| June 2026 | $9m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 12 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 12 November 2026
Who owns it
None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 103 funds in all.
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$7mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$4m
- Thompson Siegel & Walmsley$4mCut
- Renaissance Technologies$4mCut
- Geode Capital Management$3mAdded
- LOS Angeles Capital Management$3mAdded
- Goldman Sachs Group$3mAdded
- Penbrook Management$2mAdded
- State Street$2mCut
- Essex Investment Management$2mCut
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
1 investor owns more than 5%.
- John HendricksInsider or founderat least 21.8%−16.2 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 14 August 2025
What they said
Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following paragraphs: As disclosed on the Issuer's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on August 14, 2025, on August 14, 2024, HFM, for which Mr. Hendricks, the Chairman of the board of…
Read the filing
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
John Hendricks Insider or founder | at least 21.8%−16.2 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 14 August 2025 | What they saidItem 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following paragraphs: As disclosed on the Issuer's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on August 14, 2025, on August 14, 2024, HFM, for which Mr. Hendricks, the Chairman of the board of… Read the filing |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $538,580 of shares on the open market. 6 sold $2m, $372,891 of it under preset trading plans.
- Stinchcomb Clinton LarryPresident and CEO, DirectorBought
- Date
- 28 August 2026
- Shares
- 20,000
- Price
- $2.60
- Value
- $52,060
- Stinchcomb Clinton LarryPresident and CEO, DirectorBought
- Date
- 27 August 2026
- Shares
- 30,000
- Price
- $2.55
- Value
- $76,590
- Hayden Phillip BradyChief Financial OfficerSold
- Date
- 12 June 2026
- Shares
- 30,400
- Price
- $2.56
- Value
- $77,824
- Keeley Patrick J.DirectorSold
- Date
- 12 June 2026
- Shares
- 31,559
- Price
- $2.70
- Value
- $85,209
- Stinchcomb Clinton LarryPresident and CEO, DirectorBought
- Date
- 28 May 2026
- Shares
- 25,744
- Price
- $2.78
- Value
- $71,568
- Stinchcomb Clinton LarryPresident and CEO, DirectorBought
- Date
- 27 May 2026
- Shares
- 94,256
- Price
- $2.74
- Value
- $258,261
- Stinchcomb Clinton LarryPresident and CEO, DirectorBought
- Date
- 26 May 2026
- Shares
- 30,000
- Price
- $2.67
- Value
- $80,100
- Hayden Phillip BradyChief Financial OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 2 January 2026
- Shares
- 17,474
- Price
- $3.76
- Value
- $65,702
- Hayden Phillip BradyChief Financial OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 15 December 2025
- Shares
- 2,000
- Price
- $4.59
- Value
- $9,180
- Cudahy Theresa EllenCOO and SecretarySoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 10 December 2025
- Shares
- 5,768
- Price
- $4.98
- Value
- $28,725
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2026 | Stinchcomb Clinton Larry President and CEO, Director | Bought | 20,000 | $2.60 | $52,060 |
| 27 August 2026 | Stinchcomb Clinton Larry President and CEO, Director | Bought | 30,000 | $2.55 | $76,590 |
| 12 June 2026 | Hayden Phillip Brady Chief Financial Officer | Sold | 30,400 | $2.56 | $77,824 |
| 12 June 2026 | Keeley Patrick J. Director | Sold | 31,559 | $2.70 | $85,209 |
| 28 May 2026 | Stinchcomb Clinton Larry President and CEO, Director | Bought | 25,744 | $2.78 | $71,568 |
| 27 May 2026 | Stinchcomb Clinton Larry President and CEO, Director | Bought | 94,256 | $2.74 | $258,261 |
| 26 May 2026 | Stinchcomb Clinton Larry President and CEO, Director | Bought | 30,000 | $2.67 | $80,100 |
| 2 January 2026 | Hayden Phillip Brady Chief Financial Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 17,474 | $3.76 | $65,702 |
| 15 December 2025 | Hayden Phillip Brady Chief Financial Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 2,000 | $4.59 | $9,180 |
| 10 December 2025 | Cudahy Theresa Ellen COO and Secretary | Sold under a preset trading plan | 5,768 | $4.98 | $28,725 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 12 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 13 Aug 2026 and 6 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
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The deep dive
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