CERSCerus Corporation
Is the business good?
Margins widening. That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is CERS?
Cerus Corporation earns −1.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 10 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Share count, year on year
- +4.8%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −51% |
| FY2021 | −31% |
| FY2022 | −18% |
| FY2023 | −16% |
| FY2024 | −7.1% |
| FY2025 | −3.7% |
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- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$1.8M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$6.8M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −1.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Customers and suppliers
Who buys from CERS and who it buys from, as the companies report it.
- American Red Cross33%
Share of revenue · FY2025 10-K
- Etablissement Francais du Sang10%
Share of revenue · FY2025 10-K
None disclosed.
A company has to disclose every customer behind 10% or more of its revenue. Each share comes from the latest annual report of the company that states it and shows on both companies’ pages; CERS’s own figures are from its FY2025 10-K. Smaller customers and suppliers go unreported.