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what it is
ClearOne sells meeting-room gear that moves voices and video between people, computers, and conference systems.
how it gets paid
Last year Clearone made $11M in revenue. Audio conferencing products was the main engine at $5.0M, or 46% of sales.
what just happened
ClearOne's latest quarter showed -$12.39 EPS on $0 revenue.
At a glance
C+ balance sheet — struggling to keep the lights on
5/100 earnings predictability — expect surprises
27.7% return on capital — every dollar works hard here
-$5.55 fy2024 eps est
$11M fy2024 rev est
xvary composite: 27/100 — weak
What they do
ClearOne sells meeting-room gear that moves voices and video between people, computers, and conference systems.
You are not buying a giant. You are buying 80 employees and $11M in annual sales. That is the contrast. The upside is a niche product set that plugs into rooms, PCs, tablets, phones, and conference systems. Leaving is painful because your existing setup has to be replaced, not just downloaded.
How they make money
$11M
annual revenue
Audio conferencing products
$5.0M
USB speakerphones
$2.8M
Professional microphones
$1.8M
Network streaming and other
$1.4M
The products that matter
audio DSP hardware
CONVERGE Pro 2
audio segment · $8.0M
this sits inside the audio conferencing business, which contributes about $8.0M, or 70% of total revenue. if this category keeps slipping, the rest of the catalog is too small to carry the company.
70% of revenue
configuration software
CONSOLE AI Software
visual collaboration · $2.3M
software is where you would want the mix to improve, but the base is still small. $2.3M of revenue means even a decent growth rate does not repair the whole income statement by itself.
20% of revenue
small-room audio
Huddle Audio DSPs
company scale · $11M
this is the product bucket you watch if you want proof the portfolio still has demand. the problem is scale: when the entire company is expected to do $11M in revenue, you do not get many slow quarters.
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Key numbers
80.9%
operating margin
Operating margin means profit after running the business. At -80.9%, every $100 in sales leaves about $81 gone.
$11M
annual revenue
Revenue means sales. $11M is tiny against public-company costs.
$12M
market cap
The whole company is worth about $12M. That is barely above one year of sales.
1.2
beta
Beta means how jumpy the stock is versus the market. At 1.2, your ride is about 20% rougher than average.
Financial health
C+
strength
- balance sheet grade C+ — weak — may struggle to fund operations
- risk rank 5 — safer than 5% of stocks
- price stability 5 / 100
- long-term debt $0M (2% of capital)
C+ — below average. watch for debt servicing and cash burn.
Total return vs. market
Return history isn't available for CLRO right now.
source: institutional data · return history unavailable
What just happened
missed estimates
ClearOne's latest quarter showed -$12.39 EPS on $0 revenue.
Revenue was $0, and EPS was -$12.39, down 56% vs. prior year. The gap between sales and losses is the whole problem.
$0.0M
revenue
-$12.39
eps
n/a
profit margin
the number that mattered
EPS of -$12.39 mattered because the company posted no quarterly revenue and still lost money.
source: company earnings report, 2026
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What could go wrong
the risk is not abstract here. this is a company with $11M in expected revenue, -$7.5M in free cash flow, and fresh reliance on shareholder funding while the core business is still shrinking.
med
cash burn stays the main character
A -205% profit margin and -$7.5M free cash flow tell the same story from two angles. The business is still consuming cash at a pace a roughly $12M market cap does not wear comfortably.
If that burn rate does not narrow, the clean debt picture stops mattering and the financing question takes over.
med
the biggest segment is still the one shrinking
Audio conferencing is about $8.0M, or 70% of sales, and it fell 15%. Visual collaboration grew 5%, but it starts from just $2.3M. That math does not rescue the consolidated business yet.
If the core line keeps slipping, you get a smaller company even if one newer category posts decent growth.
med
shareholder support becomes financing dependence
First Finance Ltd. bought $1.75M of stock and backed a conditional private placement. Helpful, yes. Also a signal that outside capital is now part of the operating plan.
That support can bridge a weak period. It can also raise dilution risk if operating improvement keeps arriving late.
med
the numbers are hard to model cleanly
Earnings predictability is 5/100, and the source data shows Q3 2025 revenue at -$4.2M. When the reported picture gets this messy, your analytical margin of error shrinks fast.
You are taking business risk and data-interpretation risk at the same time. That is a bad combination for a tiny stock.
If revenue keeps falling and free cash flow stays near -$7.5M, the question stops being whether the stock is cheap and starts being how many more financing steps it needs.
source: institutional data · regulatory filings · risk analysis
Pay attention to
calendar
next earnings date
Monday, March 30, 2026, after market close. For a company this small, one quarter can rewrite the story faster than any investor deck.
metric
audio conferencing revenue
This segment is about $8.0M, or 70% of sales. If it keeps falling, the newer lines are still too small to offset the damage.
trend
First Finance support
The largest shareholder bought $1.75M in stock and backed a conditional private placement. Watch whether that was a one-time bridge or the start of a longer funding cycle.
risk
cash burn versus time
No long-term debt helps. -$7.5M free cash flow hurts more. The key question is whether losses narrow fast enough to avoid more capital raises.
Analyst rankings
earnings predictability
5 / 100
The reported numbers swing around enough that forecasting is difficult. in human-speak, analysts do not have a stable earnings base to trust.
risk rank
5
This score says CLRO is safer than only 5% of stocks in the dataset. Plain English: the market sees a long list of ways this can still go wrong.
source: institutional data
Institutional activity
institutional ownership data for CLRO is being compiled.
source: institutional data
Price targets
3-5 year target range
n/a
n/a
$5
current price
n/a
target midpoint · n/a from current
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