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DUOT, Duos Technologies Group Inc.
Duos also continues to operate as a technology company which designs, develops, deploys and operates intelligent technology solutions with a focus on software applications and artificial intelligence in addition to large project, consulting, implementation and asset management.
Our original business operations consisted of consulting services for asset management of large corporate data centers and the development and licensing of information technology ("IT") asset management software.
In late 2014, ISA entered negotiations with Duos Technologies, Inc.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What it is
- Revenue is Asset Management Services (83%), Technologies (16%) and Technology Solutions (1%).
- Situation
- Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn. Capital build-out. Capital spending has surged to 88% of sales, today's earnings are charged less depreciation than tomorrow's will be.
- What moves the needle
- Operating margin has run around −83% through the cycle on a 29% gross margin, the operating line deeply negative — so the lever is the path to a margin at all: revenue growth against the cost curve and the cash runway, not the level of a margin that isn't there yet. The cash cycle has run negative through the cycle (a median of −29 days): the operation is paid before it pays, so working capital releases cash as the business grows rather than tying it up. Read this kind of business on retention and the cost of growth. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Return on capital has rarely cleared the cost of capital (median −240%, above 15% in 0 of 4 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. This is price-taker territory, where the balance sheet and the cycle matter more than any multiple; the rest is in the 10-K.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
Where the money comes from
read the 10-K →Asset Management Services is 83% of revenue, with Technologies the other meaningful segment at 16%.
- Asset Management Services83%$22M
- Technologies16%$4M
- Technology Solutions1%$349K
- Data Center Hosting and Related Services0%$56K
From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2016–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2016’16 | 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMMar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | |||||||||||
| $6M | $4M | $12M | $14M | $8M | $8M | $15M | $7M | $7M | $27M | $25M | RevenueRevenue |
| — | 62% | 43% | 48% | 3% | 25% | 32% | 18% | 6% | 29% | 33% | Gross marginGross mgn |
| 15% | 27% | 12% | 16% | — | 70% | 57% | 126% | 107% | 58% | 72% | SG&A / revenueSG&A/rev |
| 4% | 8% | 4% | 11% | 1% | 30% | 11% | 24% | 21% | 3% | 3% | R&D / revenueR&D/rev |
| ($2M) | ($3M) | ($2M) | ($2M) | ($7M) | ($7M) | ($7M) | ($11M) | ($11M) | ($10M) | ($12M) | Operating incomeOp. inc. |
| −28.6% | −88.6% | −13.0% | −17.6% | −82.5% | −90.3% | −45.7% | −153.2% | −150.9% | −36.1% | −46.8% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| ($3M) | ($5M) | ($2M) | ($2M) | ($7M) | ($6M) | ($7M) | ($11M) | ($11M) | ($10M) | ($11M) | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| ($2M) | ($4M) | ($345K) | ($4M) | ($4M) | ($7M) | ($8M) | ($9M) | ($3M) | ($14M) | ($10M) | Operating cash flowOp. cash |
| $41K | $43K | $74K | $159K | $197K | $270K | $268K | $316K | $2M | $2M | $2M | DepreciationDeprec. |
| $680K | $2M | $714K | ($2M) | $2M | ($1M) | ($2M) | $1M | $5M | ($10M) | ($6M) | Working capital & otherWC & other |
| $35K | $42K | $212K | $206K | $279K | $546K | $345K | $497K | $2M | $24M | $24M | CapexCapex |
| 0.6% | 1.1% | 1.8% | 1.5% | 3.5% | 6.6% | 2.3% | 6.6% | 25.2% | 87.6% | 95.4% | Capex / revenueCapex/rev |
| ($2M) | ($4M) | ($419K) | ($4M) | ($4M) | ($7M) | ($8M) | ($9M) | ($5M) | ($16M) | ($12M) | Owner earningsOwner earn. |
| −30.7% | −92.8% | −3.5% | −30.6% | −55.1% | −82.9% | −54.2% | −121.3% | −73.1% | −58.7% | −50.4% | Owner earnings marginOE mgn |
| ($2M) | ($4M) | ($558K) | ($4M) | ($5M) | ($7M) | ($8M) | ($9M) | ($5M) | ($37M) | ($34M) | Free cash flowFCF |
| −30.7% | −92.8% | −4.6% | −31.0% | −56.1% | −86.3% | −54.7% | −123.7% | −73.1% | −138.4% | −137.5% | Free cash flow marginFCF mgn |
| — | — | — | — | — | -454% | -171% | -309% | — | -23% | -12% | ROICROIC |
| — | -828% | — | — | -358% | -769% | -169% | -209% | -476% | -20% | -11% | Return on equityROE |
| — | −828% | — | — | −358% | −769% | −169% | −209% | −476% | −20% | −11% | Retained to equityRetained/eq |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| $174K | $2M | — | $56K | $4M | $894K | $1M | $2M | $6M | $15M | $33M | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| $257K | $298K | $2M | $3M | $1M | $2M | $3M | $1M | $109K | $730K | $3M | ReceivablesReceiv. |
| — | — | — | — | $112K | $298K | $1M | $2M | $605K | $307K | $307K | InventoryInvent. |
| $843K | $813K | $1M | $3M | $599K | $1M | $2M | $596K | $970K | $5M | $4M | Accounts payablePayables |
| ($586K) | ($514K) | $122K | ($30K) | $758K | $992K | $3M | $2M | ($255K) | ($4M) | ($2M) | Operating working capitalOper. WC |
| $1M | $3M | $4M | $5M | $6M | $3M | $7M | $6M | $8M | $23M | $41M | Current assetsCur. assets |
| $5M | $2M | $5M | $5M | $4M | $4M | $4M | $3M | $16M | $11M | $12M | Current liabilitiesCur. liab. |
| 0.2× | 1.2× | 0.9× | 0.9× | 1.6× | 0.8× | 1.5× | 1.9× | 0.5× | 2.1× | 3.4× | Current ratioCurr. ratio |
| $1M | $3M | $4M | $6M | $6M | $9M | $13M | $13M | $35M | $63M | $123M | Total assetsAssets |
| $1M | $50K | $48K | $42K | $43K | $1M | $243K | — | $2M | — | $2M | Total debtDebt |
| $1M | ($2M) | $48K | ($14K) | ($4M) | $517K | ($879K) | — | ($4M) | — | ($31M) | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| — | -0.8× | -91.4× | -34.7× | -44.2× | -367.9× | -746.9× | -1598.9× | -38.4× | -22.2× | -26.4× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| ($6M) | $623K | ($171K) | ($127K) | $2M | $781K | $4M | $5M | $2M | $49M | $107M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| — | — | 3.7% | 0.3% | 4.4% | 3.2% | 5.5% | 9.5% | 1.5% | 15.0% | 17.9% | Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 1.9M | 3.6M | 20.8M | 1.8M | 3.3M | 3.7M | 6.2M | 7.2M | 7.7M | 15.3M | 23.6M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $3.24 | $1.08 | $0.58 | $7.66 | $2.42 | $2.24 | $2.43 | $1.04 | $0.94 | $1.77 | $1.05 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| $-1.36 | $-1.43 | $-0.08 | $-1.39 | $-2.03 | $-1.63 | $-1.11 | $-1.56 | $-1.39 | $-0.64 | $-0.48 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| $-1.00 | $-1.00 | $-0.02 | $-2.35 | $-1.33 | $-1.85 | $-1.32 | $-1.26 | $-0.69 | $-1.04 | $-0.53 | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| $-1.00 | $-1.00 | $-0.03 | $-2.37 | $-1.36 | $-1.93 | $-1.33 | $-1.28 | $-0.69 | $-2.45 | $-1.44 | Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh |
| $0.02 | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.12 | $0.08 | $0.15 | $0.06 | $0.07 | $0.24 | $1.55 | $1.00 | Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh |
| $-2.93 | $0.17 | $-0.01 | $-0.07 | $0.57 | $0.21 | $0.66 | $0.74 | $0.29 | $3.18 | $4.53 | Book value / shareBVPS |
The diluted share count moved ×1.91 into 2017 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×5.77 into 2018 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1/11.67 into 2019 — shares retired, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.86 into 2020 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.67 into 2022 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.97 into 2025 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.55 into TTM — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | −6.5%/yr | −6.1%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +63.3%/yr | +79.1%/yr |
| Book value / share | — | +41.2%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Owner earnings vs. net income
Owner earningsNet incomeThe accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.
Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.
In fiscal 2025 the business earned ($16M) of owner earnings, the operating cash left after the $2M it takes just to hold its position. It put $22M more into growth; free cash flow, after that spending, was ($37M).
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported net income | ($10M) | ($11M) | ($11M) | ($7M) | ($6M) |
| Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back | +$2M | +$2M | +$316K | +$268K | +$270K |
| Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost | +$4M | +$109K | +$710K | +$819K | +$262K |
| Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items | −$10M | +$5M | +$1M | −$2M | −$1M |
| Cash from operations | ($14M) | ($3M) | ($9M) | ($8M) | ($7M) |
| Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume | −$2M | −$2M | −$316K | −$268K | −$270K |
| Owner earnings | ($16M) | ($5M) | ($9M) | ($8M) | ($7M) |
| Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still | −$22M | — | −$181K | −$77K | −$276K |
| Free cash flow | ($37M) | ($5M) | ($9M) | ($8M) | ($7M) |
| Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue | -59% | -73% | -121% | -54% | -83% |
Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position (here about $2M, roughly its depreciation, the rate its assets wear out). The other $22M of its capital spending is growth it chose, not upkeep it owed; charged only with the maintenance it must do, the business earns well more than the year's free cash flow shows. The cash-flow statement also adds stock comp back as non-cash, but it is a real cost paid in shares; counted as the expense it is (less $4M), owner earnings is nearer ($20M).
Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Will it survive?
- Can it pay its interest? -22.2×Does not cover its interestOperating income ($10M) ÷ interest expense $439K
What this means
A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.
- Net cashCash $15M − debt $2M
What this means
Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $13M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.
- Negative, funded by othersDSO 10 + DIO 6 − DPO 93 days
What this means
Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. A negative cycle is a quiet moat: suppliers and customers fund the operation (Buffett's “float”), the company grows on other people's money.
Is it a good business?
- Below average through the cycle4-yr median, range -454%–-23%; -22% latest = NOPAT ($8M) ÷ invested capital $35MIndustry peers: median -12%
What this means
The rate the business earns on the money tied up in it, Buffett's north star, because over time a stock tracks the ROIC beneath it. Above ~15% sustained hints at a moat; a return below the cost of capital (~8%) erodes value as a business grows rather than building it — the test Buffett weighs most. The headline is the median of the last 4 years (it ran -22% most recently), so one peak or trough year doesn't set the verdict. Asset-light businesses (R&D expensed, little capital) read artificially high, pair this with Owner Earnings.
- Consumes cash through the cycle10-yr median margin, range -121%–-3%; latest ($16M) = operating cash ($14M) − maintenance capex $2MIndustry peers: median -29%
What this means
What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's -59% of revenue this year, a -59% median across 10 years. It chose to put $22M more into growth, so free cash flow this year was ($37M) — the gap is investment, not weakness. Treating stock comp as the real expense it is (less $4M of SBC) leaves ($20M).
- Are earnings backed by cash? ($14M)Loss, and burning cashNet income ($10M) · cash from operations ($14M)
What this means
The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did not.
How is the cash used?
- No surplus to allocate
What this means
The business didn't generate positive Owner Earnings this year, so any distributions came from the balance sheet or borrowing, not from operations.
- Investing or harvesting? 11.20×ExpandingCapex $24M ÷ depreciation $2M
What this means
Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.
Graham’s defensive tests · 2 of 5 met
Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.
- Adequate size MissRevenue ≥ $2B · $27M
What this means
Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.
- Strong liquidity PassCurrent ratio ≥ 2× · 2.08×
What this means
Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.
- Conservative debt PassDebt ≤ working capital · $2M vs $12M WC
What this means
Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.
- Earnings stability MissA profit every year (10-yr record) · 10 loss years
What this means
Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.
- Dividend record MissUninterrupted dividends · none paid
What this means
An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.
- Earnings growth —Earnings +33% over the record · —
What this means
Earnings were negative early in the record, a growth rate isn't meaningful.
- Moderate price —P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
What this means
Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $-0.36/share (latest year $-0.34), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $1.66/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.
Durability & moat, 2016–2025
Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.
- Profitable years 0 of 10
What this means
Lost money in 10 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.
- Operating margin −43% → −113% (3-yr avg ends)
What this means
The recent-years average (−113%) sits below the early years (−43%), but the latest year (−36%) is back near the early level: a cyclical trough dragging the window down, not a one-way slide. The through-cycle median is −83% — read it across the cycle, not on the dip.
- Reinvestment, incremental ROIC returns capital
What this means
The capital base barely grew: this business returns cash through dividends and buybacks rather than reinvesting. Judge it on the cash returned, not on compounding.
- Worst year 2023 · −153.2% op. margin
What this means
Operations went underwater in 2023, understand why before trusting the good years.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Elevated contestabilityThe product is software or information, the very thing capable AI now produces more cheaply, so the moat is more contestable than the record alone implies.
Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat.
“These new entrants are focused on using technology and innovation, including artificial intelligence, to simplify and improve client experience, increase efficiencies, alter business models and effect other potentially disruptive changes in the industries in which we operate.”
AI has collapsed the cost of building a capable substitute for the very thing this business sells. When a credible alternative can be assembled for a fraction of the incumbent's price, it is pricing power that erodes first, not revenue tomorrow. The live question is whether the moat survives that, not whether it held in the past. Whether that question is answerable at all is yours to decide, against your own circle of competence.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Current Position
as of the latest quarter, Mar 31, 2026Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.
- Cash & short-term investments$33M
- Receivables$3M
- Inventory$307K
- Other current assets$5M
- Accounts payable$4M
- Other current liabilities$8M
From the company's latest filing.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.
- Insider ownership3.5%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- Stock-based compensation$4M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 15% of revenue. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.
Inverting the record
Invert: instead of why Duos Technologies Group Inc. is a good business, the question is what would make owning it a mistake, and whether those marks are in the record. Disconfirming tests across 2016–2025.
All 3 tests turned up something to look into. A record that trips every wire is one to understand slowly.
- Look hereIs it less profitable than it was?−84.4% vs −42.3%
The business ran at a loss early in the record (an owner-earnings margin of −42.3%) and the loss has widened to −84.4% across the last three years, with the latest year at −58.7%. Ask the filing where the widening sits — price, cost, or spending growing faster than revenue — and what would narrow it.
- Look hereDid debt outgrow the business?$1M → $2M
Debt rose from $1M to $2M while owner earnings went from about ($2M) to ($10M): the borrowing grew and the earnings that would carry it are not there now. Debt raised for buybacks or deals rather than growth is the kind that bites in a downturn.
- Look hereDid receivables and inventory outpace sales?4% → 10% of sales
Receivables and inventory grew from $257K to $3M while revenue grew 306%: working capital is climbing faster than sales (4% of revenue then, 10% now). That can mean customers paying slower, stock building up, or revenue pulled forward. The filing's cash-flow and receivables notes say which.
Each test is read from the filings and is noisy alone; a flag can mark a cyclical trough or a year of heavy investment as easily as a problem. The filing says which.
Peers, Software
The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | Gross margin | Op. margin | ROIC | Owner earn. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RDVTRed Violet Inc. Common Stock | $90M | — | -3.0% | -3% | 20% |
| SVCOSilvaco Group Inc. | $63M | 80% | -67.5% | -40% | -34% |
| RCATRed Cat Holdings Inc. | $41M | 18% | -562.0% | -53% | -250% |
| DUOTDuos Technologies Group Inc. | $27M | 29% | -64.1% | -240% | -57% |
| QXLQuantum X Labs Inc. | $27M | 95% | -9.4% | -2% | 3% |
| QBTSD-Wave Quantum Inc. | $25M | 68% | -724.6% | -1142% | -582% |
| GEGGLGreat Elm Group, Inc. | $16M | 93% | -46.5% | -12% | -3% |
| NXTTNext Technology Holding Inc. | $12M | 59% | -24.0% | -1% | -29% |
| Group median | — | 68% | -55.3% | -26% | -31% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFDuos Technologies Group Inc. is profitable, but owner earnings are negative this year because capital spending currently outruns operating cash, a build-out, so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no positive base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the steady-state profitability it demands, then set the mature margin you would believe and weigh the two against each other. Nothing leaves your browser unless you enter it in your notebook.
Revenue, delivered15%/yr’20→’25
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Two reads of one future. From your price: the owner earnings the company must reach, valued at a mature multiple and discounted back at your rate, expressed as the margin it implies on revenue grown at your rate. From your belief: the mature margin you would credit, set on the dial above. When the margin the price demands runs above the one you would believe, you are paying for a future taken on faith. For a deep cyclical at a trough, normalized through-cycle earnings are the better lens; this mode is for the genuinely unprofitable, and for the profitable business whose capital spending currently outruns its cash.
Manual order: ← DUOL its page in the Manual DV →
Industry order: ← DUOL the Software chapter DV →