“The decrease in inventory was due to decreased inventory purchases during the six months ending March 31, 2025, as the Company utilized inventory on hand to fulfill customer orders and achieve lower stocking levels.”10-Q · May 7, 2026 ↗
Clearfield, Inc.
CLFD
Market read
Clearfield, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 37 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- CLFD's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if CLFD's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 37 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- CLFD's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +19.6% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +16.7 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +4.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- EV/sales is 19% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
28.30Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The decrease in backlog is due to normal winter seasonality and improved lead times.”10-Q · Feb 9, 2026 ↗
“Interest expense incurred during these periods is due to factoring liabilities in the Nestor segment.”10-Q · Aug 7, 2025 ↗
“The increase in inventory is a result of additional stocking levels to support the Company’s anticipated customer demand, as well as stocking of long lead time components to limit manufacturing delays due to raw material component shortages and supply chain d…”10-K · Nov 25, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 2.6× · EV/sales 2.5×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 10 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for CLFD. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for CLFD. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind CLFD
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
APHAmphenol CorporationcompetitorNov 25, 2025 ▾
“Competitors to the FieldSmart product lines include, but are not limited to, products offered by Corning Cabling Systems, Inc., OFS (Furukawa Electric North America, Inc.), AFL Telecommunications (a subsidiary of Fujikura Ltd.), Fujikura Ltd., Nokia, Hexatron…”
BDCBelden Inc.competitorNov 25, 2025 ▾
“Competitors to FieldShield product lines include products offered by PPC Broadband, a subsidiary of Belden, Inc.”
CRLCharles River Laboratories International, Inc.competitorNov 25, 2025 ▾
“Competitors to the CraftSmart and FiberFlex active cabinet product lines include products offered by Emerson Network Power, a subsidiary of Vertiv Co., and Charles Industries, Ltd., a subsidiary of Amphenol.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
CLFD is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group No Coherent Theme. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for CLFD; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.