“Gross profit margin for the first nine months of fiscal 2026, when compared to the same period last year, was positively impacted by higher volumes, as fixed charges were spread over higher sales—the impact of our manufacturing operating leverage.”10-Q · Sep 9, 2026 ↗
Optical Cable Corporation
OCC
You’ve read what changed. Here’s whether the market is confirming it.
Market read
Optical Cable Corporation's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 0 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Higher volumes helped spread fixed manufacturing costs across more sales and lifted gross margin.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if OCC's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 0 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Higher volumes helped spread fixed manufacturing costs across more sales and lifted gross margin.
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 +9.5% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +4.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +4.3 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
No qualifying adverse evidence was identified; that is not proof there is no downside.
No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
14.67Reported 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 cash for the six months ended April 30, 2026 primarily resulted from net cash used in operating activities of $1.4 million and capital expenditures of $211,000, partially offset by net cash provided by financing activities of $1.5 million.”10-Q · Jun 8, 2026 ↗
“Inventories increased largely as a result of the timing of certain raw material purchases and increases in work in process levels related to pending shipments.”10-Q · Sep 9, 2026 ↗
“Other expense, net for the first nine months of fiscal year 2024 is comprised of interest expense and other miscellaneous items, partially offset by gain on insurance proceeds totaling $309,000.”10-Q · Sep 11, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales — · EV/sales —. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
No usable price/earnings or price/sales multiple (need a fresh price).
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 11 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 OCC. 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 OCC. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind OCC
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
OCC is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group Fiber Optic Solutions. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. No verified filing-linked names are available yet.
This group is retained as the last observed read for OCC; 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.