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what it is
Chicago Rivet makes rivets, fasteners, and automated machines that help car factories put parts together.
how it gets paid
Last year Cvr made $27M in revenue. Fasteners and rivets was the main engine at $10M, or 37% of sales.
what just happened
Q3 2025 posted about $7.4M of revenue and roughly $0.07 EPS (returned to a small quarterly profit).
At a glance
C++ balance sheet — some cracks in the foundation
10/100 earnings predictability — expect surprises
0.9% dividend yield — cash in your pocket every quarter
9.3% return on capital — nothing to write home about
-$5.81 fy2024 eps est
xvary composite: 40/100 — below average
What they do
Chicago Rivet makes rivets, fasteners, and automated machines that help car factories put parts together.
You do not swap this supplier like a paper clip. The company has 161 employees and sells through independent reps into auto factories. Beta (stock wiggle versus the market) is 0.75, so the stock moves less than the market while operating margin sits at -19.1%.
How they make money
$27M
annual revenue
Fasteners and rivets
$10M
2.5%
Cold-formed parts
$6M
2.5%
Screw machine products
$4M
0.0%
Automatic riveters
$4M
2.5%
Assembly equipment systems
$3M
0.0%
The products that matter
manufactures industrial fasteners
Cold-Formed Rivets
$22M · 81.5% of revenue
This is the core business on an annual view: about $22M of the company’s ~$27M full-year revenue, and it declined about 10% last year. If this line does not steady, nothing else on the page will save the story.
core revenue base
builds rivet-setting equipment
Automatic Rivet Setting Systems
$5M · 18.5% of revenue
This segment generated about $5M last year and declined 9%. In plain English, the higher-value equipment side is not yet acting like a rescue line for the core fastener business.
no offset yet
Key numbers
$13M
market cap
You are looking at a company the market values like a rounding error. That makes every dollar of revenue and margin swing matter more.
$27M
annual revenue
The company brings in about $27M a year. The market is paying about 0.48x sales for that stream.
19.1%
operating margin
For every $100 of sales, the business loses about $19 before interest and taxes. That is the punchline, not a footnote.
$1M
long-term debt
Debt is tiny at 6% of capital. That lowers blow-up risk, even if it does not fix the loss-making business.
Financial health
C++
strength
- balance sheet grade C++ — below average — limited financial resources
- risk rank 3 — safer than 50% of stocks
- price stability 30 / 100
- long-term debt $1M (6% of capital)
C++ — below average. watch for debt servicing and cash burn.
Total return vs. market
Return history isn't available for CVR right now.
source: institutional data · return history unavailable
What just happened
beat expectations
Q3 2025 posted about $7.4M of revenue and roughly $0.07 EPS.
Sales rose about 6% vs. prior year vs Q3 2024; the quarter flipped to a small net profit after prior losses. Gross margin improved versus the weak year-ago compare.
$7.4M
revenue (Q3)
$0.07
eps (Q3)
18.1%
gross margin
the number that mattered
The ~$7.4M quarter is the right scale for this company; the swing to ~$0.07 EPS matters because it breaks a string of quarterly losses—execution still has to prove it sticks.
source: company earnings report, 2025
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What could go wrong
CVR does not need a dramatic disaster to disappoint you. It just needs one more year of small-company math working against it: lower sales, negative margins, and a cash balance that does not leave much room for denial.
high
Revenue keeps sliding
Quarterly sales fell 9.8% to $7.3M, and full-year revenue declined 14.3% to $27M.
If the top line keeps shrinking, the valuation argument breaks. This stock only looks cheap if the revenue base holds.
high
Losses eat the cushion
Net margin is still weak on a trailing basis, and the business has posted plenty of red quarters—Q3 2025 was a rare small profit (~$0.07 EPS), not a solved turnaround.
On a $13M market cap, a return to losses erodes the thin cash cushion fast.
med
Cash is real, but thin
CVR had $1.68M in cash and $1M in long-term debt in the most recent quarter.
Low debt helps. The catch is that $1.68M is not an endless safety net if losses keep showing up quarter after quarter.
med
No coverage means no external check
There are 0 analysts covering the stock, and short interest is only 0.22% of the float.
In plain English, almost nobody is paid to debate this name. If the numbers get worse, price discovery gets thin and your feedback loop gets slower.
Put those together and you get a business with $27M in revenue, negative margins, and a $1.68M cash buffer. That is enough for a watchlist. It is not enough for complacency.
source: institutional data · regulatory filings · risk analysis
Pay attention to
calendar
Next earnings release
The next quarter matters more than usual. On a $27M revenue base, another sales miss will show up immediately.
metric
Profit margin
Net margin is -13.6%. Before you think about upside, you want to see that loss rate moving toward zero.
trend
Segment stabilization
Rivets & Fasteners fell 10% and Machines & Tooling fell 9%. You want one of them to stop falling first. Right now both say the same thing.
risk
Cash versus losses
Cash was $1.68M. If losses keep chewing through that balance, the conversation shifts from valuation to survival math.
Analyst rankings
earnings predictability
10 / 100
in human-speak, one quarter can rewrite the story because the business is small and the results are inconsistent.
risk rank
3
That sits around the middle on reported risk metrics. It does not erase the shrinking revenue base or the thin cash cushion.
source: institutional data
Institutional activity
institutional ownership data for CVR is being compiled.
source: institutional data
Price targets
3-5 year target range
n/a
n/a
$14
current price
n/a
target midpoint · n/a from current
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