ACCESS Newswire Q3 continuing-operations loss widens to $80K
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ACCESS Newswire Inc. (ACCS) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $5.515 million, down 4% from $5.723 million a year earlier, and a continuing-operations net loss of $80,000 versus $45,000. For the first nine months, revenue was $16.460 million, down 2%; continuing-operations net loss was $1.045 million, compared with $1.049 million. Total net loss was $1.173 million, versus net income of $4.867 million in 2025; discontinued operations that year included an $8.974 million gain on disposal.
Operating cash flow for the first nine months was $1.513 million, compared with $300,000. As of September 30, 2026, cash was $2.989 million and current liabilities exceeded current assets by $1.643 million. The company reported 1,202 subscriptions and approximately $13.5 million in annual recurring revenue. In October, it implemented a cost initiative and expects annualized savings of more than $1.5 million, with partial benefit in fourth-quarter 2026 and full benefit beginning first-quarter 2027; actual savings may differ.
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Table of Contents
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION | ||
| Item 1. | Financial Statements | 3 |
| Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2026 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2025 | 3 | |
| Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | 4 | |
| Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | 5 | |
| Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | 6 | |
| Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | 7 | |
| Notes to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements | 8 | |
| Item 2. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 22 |
| Item 3. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 34 |
| Item 4. | Controls and Procedures | 34 |
| PART II – OTHER INFORMATION | ||
| Item 1. | Legal Proceedings | 35 |
| Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 35 |
| Item 2. | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds | 35 |
| Item 3. | Defaults Upon Senior Securities | 35 |
| Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosure | 36 |
| Item 5. | Other Information | 36 |
| Item 6. | Exhibits | 36 |
| Signatures | 37 | |
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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
ACCESS NEWSWIRE INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
| September 30, 2026 | December 31, 2025 | |||||||
| (unaudited) | ||||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accounts receivable (net of allowance for credit losses of $ | ||||||||
| Income tax receivable | ||||||||
| Other current assets | ||||||||
| Total current assets | ||||||||
| Capitalized software (net of accumulated amortization of $ | ||||||||
| Fixed assets (net of accumulated depreciation of $ | ||||||||
| Right-of-use asset – leases | ||||||||
| Other long-term assets | ||||||||
| Goodwill | ||||||||
| Intangible assets (net of accumulated amortization of $ | ||||||||
| Deferred tax asset | ||||||||
| Total assets | $ | $ | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accrued expenses | ||||||||
| Income tax payable | ||||||||
| Current portion of Notes payable | ||||||||
| Deferred revenue | ||||||||
| Total current liabilities | ||||||||
| Long-term debt (net of debt discount of $ | ||||||||
| Deferred tax liability | ||||||||
| Interest rate swap liability | ||||||||
| Lease liabilities – long-term | ||||||||
| Total liabilities | ||||||||
| Commitments and contingencies | ||||||||
| Stockholders’ equity: | ||||||||
| Preferred stock, $ par value, shares authorized, shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. | ||||||||
| Common stock $ par value, shares authorized, and shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively | ||||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | ||||||||
| Other accumulated comprehensive loss | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Retained earnings | ||||||||
| Total stockholders’ equity | ||||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | $ | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.
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ACCESS NEWSWIRE INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(UNAUDITED)
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
| For the Three Months Ended | For the Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues | ||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating costs and expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | ||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Product development | ||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||||||||||
| Total operating costs and expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating loss | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Interest income (expense), net | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||
| Other income (expense), net | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||
| Income (loss) before taxes | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Net income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||
| Loss from continuing operations per share – basic | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||
| Loss from continuing operations per share – fully diluted | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||
| Income (loss) from discontinued operations per share – basic | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||
| Income (loss) from discontinued operations per share – fully diluted | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||
| Income (loss) per share – basic | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||
| Income (loss) per share – fully diluted | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – basic | ||||||||||||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – fully diluted | ||||||||||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.
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ACCESS NEWSWIRE INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
(UNAUDITED)
(in thousands)
| For the Three Months Ended | For the Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income (loss) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.
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ACCESS NEWSWIRE INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(UNAUDITED)
(in thousands, except share amounts)
| Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income | Retained | Total Stockholders’ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares | Amount | Capital | (Loss) | Earnings | Equity | |||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2024 | $ | | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise of stock awards, net of tax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise of stock awards, net of tax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at September 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Balance at December 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise of stock awards, net of tax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock issued to consultants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock repurchase and retirement | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2026 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise of stock awards, net of tax | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock issued to consultants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock repurchase and retirement | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at June 30, 2026 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock issued to consultants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock repurchase and retirement | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | – | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at September 30, 2026 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.
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ACCESS NEWSWIRE INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(UNAUDITED)
(in thousands)
| For the Nine Months Ended | ||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | |||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||
| Loss (Gain) on disposal of business | ( | ) | ||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | ||||||||
| Change in fair value of interest rate swap | ( | ) | ||||||
| Deferred income taxes | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | ||||||||
| Non-cash interest expense | ||||||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
| Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Decrease (increase) in other assets | ||||||||
| Increase (decrease) in accounts payable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Increase (decrease) in income tax payable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Increase (decrease) in accrued expenses and other liabilities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Increase (decrease) in deferred revenue | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | ||||||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||
| Proceeds from Sale of Compliance Business | ||||||||
| Capitalized software | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Purchase of fixed assets | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | ( | ) | ||||||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||
| Payment of principal of Note Payable | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Payment for stock repurchase and retirement | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net change in cash and cash equivalents | ( | ) | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents – beginning | ||||||||
| Currency translation adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents – ending | $ | $ | ||||||
| Supplemental disclosures: | ||||||||
| Cash paid for income taxes | $ | $ | ||||||
| Cash paid for interest | $ | $ | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.
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ACCESS NEWSWIRE INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
Note 1: Basis of Presentation
The unaudited interim Consolidated Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2026 and Consolidated Statements of Operations, Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss), Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 included herein, have been prepared in accordance with the instructions for Form 10-Q under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and Article 10 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act. In the opinion of management, they include all normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the financial statements. Results of operations reported for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP") have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations relating to interim financial statements. The interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the 2025 audited financial statements of ACCESS Newswire Inc. (the “Company”, “We”, or “Our”) filed on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025.
Note 2: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. Significant intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
Cash Equivalents
For purposes of the Company’s financial statements, the Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity date of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Credit Losses
The Company calculates its allowance for credit losses using an expected losses model rather than using incurred losses. The model is based on the credit losses expected to arise over the life of the asset based on the Company’s expectations as of the balance sheet date, by analyzing historical customer data as well as taking into consideration current economic trends. The Company generally writes-off accounts receivable against the allowance when it determines a balance is uncollectible and no longer actively pursues its collection.
The following is a summary of the allowance for credit losses during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 (in thousands):
| For the Three Months Ended | For the Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Beginning balance | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | ||||||||||||||||
| Write-offs | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Recoveries | ||||||||||||||||
| Ending Balance | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
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Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments and related
items which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents and accounts
receivable. The Company places its cash and temporary cash investments with credit quality institutions. As of September 30, 2026, the
Company’s domestic cash balance is spread among different depository institutions such that there is
The Company believes it did not have any financial instruments that could have potentially subjected us to significant concentrations of credit risk for any relevant period.
The Company did not have any customers during the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2026 or 2025 that accounted for more than 10% of revenue.
Revenue Recognition
Substantially all the Company’s revenue comes from contracts with customers for its press release distribution and related products, investor relations website hosting or data feeds, events and webcast offerings and subscriptions to its incident hotline. Customers consist of public corporate issuers and professional firms, such as investor and public relations firms. In the case of news distribution and webcasting offerings, customers also include private companies. The Company accounts for a contract with a customer when there is an enforceable contract between the Company and the customer, the rights of the parties are identified, the contract has economic substance, and collectability of the contract consideration is probable. The Company’s revenues are measured based on consideration specified in the contract with each customer.
The Company’s contracts include either a subscription to its entire platform, certain modules within the platform or to its Press Release Optimizer Plan (“PRO”), or an agreement to perform services, or any combination thereof, and often contain multiple subscriptions and services. For these bundled contracts, the Company accounts for individual subscriptions and services as separate performance obligations if they are distinct, which is when a product or service is separately identifiable from other items in the bundled package, and a customer can benefit from it on its own or with other resources that are readily available to the customer. Performance obligations include providing subscriptions to certain modules or our entire platform, distributing press releases on a per release basis or conducting webcasts, virtual annual meetings, or other events on a per event basis. PRO subscription contracts contain two performance obligations: (i) the first is a series of distinct services that include, but are not limited to, developing specific media plans, and creating content to be distributed and (ii) the second performance obligation being access to the PRO platform along with distribution of press releases, ongoing support, and assessment of performance as a stand-ready obligation. The Company’s subscription and service contracts are generally for one year, with automatic renewal clauses included in the contract until the contract is cancelled. The contracts do not contain any rights of returns, guarantees, or warranties. Since contracts are generally for one year, all the revenue is expected to be recognized within one year from the contract start date. As such, the Company has elected the optional exemption that allows the Company not to disclose the transaction price allocated to performance obligations that are unsatisfied or partially satisfied at the end of each reporting period.
The Company recognizes revenue for subscriptions evenly over the contract period, upon distribution for per release contracts and upon event completion for webcasting and virtual annual meeting events. For service contracts that include stand-ready obligations, revenue is recognized evenly over the contract period. For all other services delivered on a per project or event basis, the revenue is recognized at the completion of the event. The Company believes recognizing revenue for subscriptions and stand ready obligations using a time-based measure of progress, best reflects the Company’s performance in satisfying the obligations.
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For bundled contracts, revenue is allocated to each performance obligation based on its relative standalone selling price. Standalone selling prices are based on observable prices at which the Company separately sells the subscription or service. If a standalone selling price is not directly observable, the Company uses the residual method to allocate any remaining price to that subscription or service. The Company reviews standalone selling prices, at least annually, and updates these estimates if necessary.
The Company invoices its customers
based on the billing schedules designated in its contracts, typically upfront on either a monthly, quarterly or annual basis or per transaction
at the completion of the performance obligation. Deferred revenue for the periods presented was primarily related to press release packages
which have been invoiced or paid, however the releases have not yet been disseminated, as well as, subscription and service contracts,
which are billed upfront, quarterly, or annually, however the revenue has not yet been recognized. The associated deferred revenue is
generally recognized as releases are disseminated for press release packages and ratably over the billing period for subscriptions. Deferred
revenue as of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, was $
Costs to obtain contracts with
customers consist primarily of sales commissions. As of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Company has capitalized $
Earnings per share accounting guidance requires that basic net income per common share be computed by dividing net income for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income per share is computed by dividing the net income for the period by the weighted average number of common and dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during the period. Shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options totaling were excluded in the computation of diluted earnings per common share during both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 because their impact was anti-dilutive. Shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options totaling were excluded in the computation of diluted earnings per common share during both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, because their impact was anti-dilutive.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Significant estimates include the allowance for credit losses and the valuation of goodwill, intangible assets, deferred tax assets, and stock-based compensation. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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Income Taxes
Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred income tax assets to the amounts expected to be realized. For any uncertain tax positions, the Company recognizes the impact of a tax position, only if it is more likely than not of being sustained upon examination, based on the technical merits of the position. The Company’s policy regarding the classification of interest and penalties is to classify them as income tax expense in the financial statements, if applicable.
Capitalized Software
Costs incurred to develop the Company’s cloud-based platform products are capitalized when the preliminary project phase is complete, management commits to fund the project and it is probable the project will be completed and used for its intended purposes. Once the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use, the software is amortized over its estimated useful life, which is typically four years. Costs related to design or maintenance of the software are expensed as incurred. Amortization for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, is as follows (in thousands):
| For the Three Months Ended | For the Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Capitalized software development costs | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Amortization included in cost of revenues | ||||||||||||||||
Impairment of Long-lived Assets
In accordance with the authoritative guidance for accounting for long-lived assets, assets such as property and equipment, trademarks, and intangible assets subject to amortization, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset group may not be recoverable. Recoverability of asset groups to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset group to estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset group. If the carrying amount of an asset group exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized by the amount by which the carrying amount of an asset group exceeds fair value of the asset group.
Lease Accounting
The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating lease agreements are primarily for office space and are included within lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
ROU assets represent the right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Variable lease payments consist of non-lease services related to the lease and payments under operating leases classified as short-term. Variable lease payments are excluded from the ROU assets and lease liabilities and are recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments is incurred. As most of the leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. ROU assets include any lease payments due and exclude lease incentives. Rental expense for lease payments related to operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
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Fair Value Measurements
Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. Assets and liabilities recorded at fair value in the financial statements are categorized based upon the hierarchy of levels of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their fair value. Hierarchical levels directly related to the amount of subjectivity associated with the inputs to fair valuation of these assets and liabilities, are as follows:
| · | Level 1 – Quoted prices are available in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the reporting date. Generally, this includes debt and equity securities that are traded in an active market. Cash and cash equivalents are quoted at Level 1. | |
| · | Level 2 – Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities. The fair value of the Company’s interest rate swap is quoted at Level 2. | |
| · | Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities. Level 3 assets and liabilities include financial instruments whose value is determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, or other valuation techniques, as well as instruments for which the determination of fair value requires significant management judgment or estimation. |
As of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Company believes the fair value of its financial instruments, such as, accounts receivable, long-term debt, the line of credit, and accounts payable approximate their carrying amounts.
The authoritative guidance for stock compensation requires that companies estimate the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of the grant using an option-pricing model. The associated cost is recognized over the period during which an employee or director is required to provide service in exchange for the award.
Translation of Foreign Financial Statements
The financial statements of the foreign subsidiaries of the Company have been translated into U.S. dollars. All assets and liabilities have been translated at current rates of exchange in effect at the end of the period. Income and expense items have been translated at the average exchange rates for the year or the applicable interim period. The gains or losses that result from this process are recorded as a separate component of other accumulated comprehensive income until the entity is sold or substantially liquidated.
Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Comprehensive income (loss) consists of net income (loss) and other comprehensive income or loss related to changes in the cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment.
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Business Combinations, Goodwill, and Intangible Assets
The authoritative guidance for
business combinations specifies the criteria for recognizing and reporting intangible assets apart from goodwill. The Company records
the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations at their respective fair values at the date of acquisition, with
any excess purchase price recorded as goodwill. Goodwill is an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets
acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized. Intangible assets consist of client
relationships, customer lists, distribution partner relationships, software, technology, non-compete agreements and trademarks that are
initially measured at fair value. At the time of the business combination, trademarks may be considered an indefinite-lived asset and,
as such, are not amortized as there may be no foreseeable limit to cash flows generated from them. For the Newswire acquisition, the Company
originally determined the trademarks acquired were considered a definite lived asset which will be amortized over a period of 15 years,
however upon the re-brand of the Company to ACCESS Newswire and subsequent review of the trademarks associated with Newswire, determined
the life to be
As of September 30, 2026, the Company’s market capitalization is less than the carrying value of its equity. This may be an indicator of impairment of the Company’s long-lived assets, however, at this time, management believes the Company’s stock price is in temporary decline and also considers other factors such as future growth, positive cash flow and other measures the Company is able to control in determining the estimated fair value of the Company. Should the stock price continue to remain at levels below the Company’s carrying value, additional quantitative tests may be necessary, which could conclude an impairment exists.
Advertising
The Company expenses advertising
as incurred. During the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2026, advertising expense was $
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of September 30, 2026, we
had $
As of September 30, 2026, our current liabilities exceeded our current assets by $1,643,000. While our current liabilities exceed current assets, we believe our ability to renegotiate our Credit Agreement (see Note 9 below) and ability to continue to generate cash will benefit us in the future.
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Effective
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. This update requires enhanced disclosures of certain costs and expenses in the notes to the financial statements. This update is applicable to all public entities and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The amendments in this update should be applied prospectively; however, retrospective application is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact the new accounting guidance will have on its disclosures.
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Note 3: Discontinued Operations
On February 28, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), the Company and Direct Transfer, LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Equiniti Trust Company, LLC (the “Buyer”). Pursuant to, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Purchase Agreement, the Buyer purchased certain assets related to the Company’s compliance business (the “Purchased Assets”). The Purchased Assets consisted of certain accounts receivable, prepaid assets, contracts and intellectual property, among other things, related to the Company’s services of providing i) disclosure software and services for financial reporting, ii) stock transfer services, iii) annual meeting, print and shareholder distribution and fulfillment services and iv) virtual annual meeting services (but not the intellectual property relating to the virtual annual meeting services). Revenue related to these services was previously included in the Company’s “compliance revenue” stream as reported with the SEC in previous filings, except revenue related to virtual annual meeting services, which was previously reported in “communications revenue” stream in previous SEC filings. Additionally, revenue related to providing SEDAR services and revenue related to our whistleblower hotline, which was previously reported as “compliance revenue” will be retained by the Company. The Buyer assumed certain liabilities related to the Purchased Assets, which included certain accounts payable, accrued liabilities and deferred revenue.
Performance obligations of contracts included in discontinued operations include providing subscriptions to certain modules of our compliance software or other stand-ready obligations to deliver services and annual report printing and distribution. Additionally, services are provided on a per project basis. Set up fees for disclosure services are considered a separate performance obligation and are satisfied upfront. Set up fees for the transfer agent module and investor relations content management module are immaterial. For service contracts that include stand ready obligations, revenue is recognized evenly over the contract period. For all other services delivered on a per project or event basis, the revenue is recognized at the completion of the event. The Company believes recognizing revenue for subscriptions and stand ready obligations using a time-based measure of progress, best reflects the Company’s performance in satisfying the obligations.
As of the Closing Date, there
was $
On July 16, 2026, the Company
and the Buyer agreed to settle a dispute related to the $500,000 holdback which was part of the (Purchase Agreement). As a result, the
Company received $
The following table sets forth the details of income from discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 as presented in the Consolidated Statement of Operations (in thousands):
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| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | | $ | | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Cost of revenues | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
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| Operating costs and expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
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| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||||||||||
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| Operating income (loss) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
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| Gain (loss) on disposal of business | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Income (loss) before taxes | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) from discontinued operations | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||
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The following table presents the significant non-cash items related to discontinued operations for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 that are included in the accompanying statements of cash flows (in thousands):
| September 30, 2026 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | $ | $ | ||||||
| Provision for credit losses | ||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | ||||||||
| Gain (Loss) on disposal of business | ( | ) | ||||||
Note 4: Equity
Dividends
The Company did not pay any dividends during the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2026 and 2025.
Preferred stock and common stock
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, there were and shares, respectively, of common stock issued to consultants in exchange for services. common stock was issued to consultants during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025. There were no other issuances of common or preferred stock during the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, other than stock awarded to employees and the Board of Directors.
Stock repurchase and retirement
On December 4, 2025, the Company’s
board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program under which the Company was authorized to repurchase up to $
| Shares Repurchased | ||||||||||||||||
| Period | Total Number of Shares Repurchased | Average Price Paid Per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program | Maximum Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program | ||||||||||||
| December 1-31, 2025 | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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| Total | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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2023 Equity Incentive Plan
On June 7, 2023, the shareholders of the Company approved the 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2023 Plan”). Under the terms of the 2023 Plan, the Company is authorized to issue incentive awards for common stock up to shares to employees and other personnel. The awards may be in the form of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units and performance awards. The 2023 Plan is effective through April 1, 2033. As of September 30, 2026, there are shares which remain to be granted under the 2023 Plan, including shares assumed under the Company’s previous 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended.
The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding and exercisable at September 30, 2026:
| Options Outstanding | Options Exercisable | |||||||||||||||
| Exercise Price Range | Number | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (in Years) | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Number | ||||||||||||
| $ - | $ | |||||||||||||||
| $ - | – | $ | ||||||||||||||
| $ - | $ | |||||||||||||||
| $ - | $ | |||||||||||||||
| $ - | $ | |||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | |||||||||||||||
As of September 30, 2026, the Company had unrecognized stock compensation related to the options of $, which will be recognized through 2027.
stock was granted during the three-month periods ended September 30, 2026 and 2025. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2026, the Company granted restricted stock units to its Board of Directors, which vest at the earlier of June 26, 2027, or the Company’s 2027 annual meeting. The average grant date fair value of these grants was $. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2025, the Company granted restricted stock units to its Board of Directors. The average grant date fair value of these grants was $.
shares vested during the three-month periods ended September 30, 2026 and 2025. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2026, shares issued to employees and directors vested with an average intrinsic value of $ per share. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2025, restricted stock units with an average intrinsic value of $, vested. As of September 30, 2026, there was $ of unrecognized compensation cost related to our unvested restricted stock units, which will be recognized through 2028.
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Note 5: Income Taxes
The Company recognized an income
tax benefit of $
Note 6: Leases
Leasing activity generally consists
of office leases. In March 2019, a lease was signed to move the corporate headquarters to Raleigh, North Carolina. The lease had a lease
commencement date of October 2, 2019 and expires December 31, 2027. Minimum lease payments are $
Lease liabilities totaled $
| For the Three Months Ended | For the Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Lease expense | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating lease expense | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Variable lease expense | ||||||||||||||||
| Total lease expense | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
The weighted-average remaining
non-cancelable lease term for our operating leases was
| Year Ended December 31: | ||||
| 2026 | $ | |||
| 2027 | ||||
| Total lease payments | ||||
| Present value adjustment | ( | ) | ||
| Lease liability | $ | |||
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We have performed an evaluation of our other contracts with customers and suppliers in accordance with Topic 842 and have determined that, except for the leases described above, none of our contracts contain a lease.
On December 18, 2025, the Company
entered into a Commercial Sublease Agreement (the “Sublease”), to lease 100% of the corporate headquarters for the remaining
term of the lease, commencing on March 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. Under the terms of the Sublease, future minimum lease payments
are $
Note 7: Segment Reporting
Operating segments are components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available and is evaluated periodically by management, namely the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) of an organization, in order to determine operating and resource allocation decisions. By this definition, the Company has identified its Chief Executive Officer as the CODM. The Company considers itself to be in a reportable segment under the authoritative guidance for segment reporting, specifically a communications company for publicly traded and private companies. The CODM uses operating income to evaluate our capital allocation, which could be re-investing income back into the Company, executing a share-repurchase, paying dividends or acquiring other entities. Operating income is used to monitor budget versus actual results. The CODM also uses operating income in competitive analysis by benchmarking to the Company’s competitors. The competitive analysis along with the monitoring of budgeted versus actual results are used in assessing performance of the Company. Below provides a further breakdown of costs and expenses of our one reporting segment (in thousands):
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| Operating costs and expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| Employee costs | ||||||||||||||||
| Consultants and professional services | ||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||||||||||
| Advertising | ||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | ||||||||||||||||
| Tradeshows | ||||||||||||||||
| Software licensing | ||||||||||||||||
| Stock compensation | ||||||||||||||||
| Hosting | ||||||||||||||||
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| Capitalized Software | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||
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| Operating loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||
| (1) |
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Note 8: Commitments and Contingencies
From time to time, the Company may be involved in litigation that arises through the normal course of business. As of the date of this filing and except as set forth below, the Company is neither a party to any litigation nor is it aware of any such threatened or pending litigation which the Company believes might result in a material adverse effect to the Company’s business.
On April 1, 2026, Cycurion, Inc. filed a complaint against the Company in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Wake County, North Carolina, together with an unidentified “John Doe” defendant. The complaint alleges that on March 16, 2026, the Company disseminated a press release concerning Cycurion that the plaintiff contends was fabricated and submitted to the Company by an unauthorized third party, and asserts claims against the Company for common law defamation, violation of the North Carolina Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and common law negligence. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages. The Company believes the claims against it are without merit and intends to defend the matter vigorously. This litigation matter is covered under the Company’s insurance policies. At this time, the Company is unable to reasonably estimate the amount or range of possible loss, if any, that may result from this matter, and accordingly no accrual for any loss contingency has been recorded in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company does not expect the outcome of this litigation to have a material adverse effect on its financial condition or results of operations, or cash flows, although there can be no assurance as to the ultimate outcome.
Note 9: Credit Agreement
On March 20, 2023 (the “Closing
Date”), the Company entered into a $
Pursuant to the terms of the Credit
Agreement, the per annum interest rate of the Term Loan is variable based on the one-month secured overnight financing rate (“SOFR”)
plus 2.35%, subject to a minimum SOFR of 2.00%. However, the Term Loan issued on the Closing Date has a per annum interest rate of
Effective June 25, 2024, the aggregate
principal amount of the Revolving LOC was reduced to $
On February 28, 2025 and in connection with the Purchased Assets transaction described above, the Company and each of its wholly-owned subsidiaries entered into a Third Modification to Credit Agreement and Partial Release (the “Third Modification to Credit Agreement”) with Pinnacle with respect to the Credit Agreement.
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Pursuant to the terms of the Third
Modification to Credit Agreement and a subsequent amendment, the Company and Pinnacle agreed to the following: (i) to pay down the current
principal balance of the Term Loan (as defined in the Credit Agreement) by $
The Credit Agreement, as amended, currently contains the following financial covenants:
| As Amended | ||
| Fiscal Quarter | Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio | |
| Each fiscal quarter ending on or after June 30, 2025 | 1:2:1.0 |
Additionally, the Company is required to maintain unrestricted liquidity, as follows.
| Leverage Ratio | Unrestricted Liquidity | |||
| If the Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.5:1.00 | $ | 1,500,000 | ||
| If the Leverage Ratio is greater than 1.5:1.00 but less than or equal to 1.75:1.00 | $ | 1,000,000 | ||
| If the Leverage Ratio is greater than 1.75:1.00 | $ | 500,000 | ||
The Credit Agreement also contains customary affirmative covenants for a transaction of this nature, including among other things, covenants relating to: maintenance of adequate financial and accounting books and records, delivery of financial statements and other information, preservation of existence of the Company and subsidiaries, payment of taxes and claims, compliance with laws, maintenance of insurance, foreign qualification, use of proceeds, cash management system, maintenance of properties, and conduct of business.
The Credit Agreement also contains customary negative covenants for a transaction of this nature, including, among other things, covenants relating to debt, liens, investments, negative pledges, dividends and other debt payments, restriction on fundamental changes, sale of assets, transactions with affiliates, restrictive agreements, and changes in fiscal year.
The Credit Agreement also contains various Events of Default (subject to certain grace periods, to the extent applicable), including among other things, Events of Default for the nonpayment of principal, interest or fees; breach of certain covenants; inaccuracy of the representations or warranties in any material respect; bankruptcy or insolvency; dissolution or change of control; certain unsatisfied judgments; defaults under material agreements; certain unfunded liabilities under employee benefit plans; certain unsatisfied judgments; certain ERISA violations; and the invalidity or unenforceability of the Credit Agreement. If an Event of Default occurs, the Company may be required to repay all amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement. The Term Loan and any advances under the Revolving LOC are secured by a first priority lien and security interest to the benefit of Pinnacle in the Event of Default on all of the Company’s current or future assets and each of the Guarantor’s current or future assets.
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Note 10: Interest Rate Swap
The Company entered into an interest
rate swap agreement to convert its interest rate exposure from variable rate to fixed rate to control cash outflows related to interest
on its variable rate debt. The Company originally had $
The carrying amount for the Company’s derivative financial instrument is the estimated fair value of the financial instrument. The Company’s derivative is not exchange listed and therefore the fair value is estimated under a mark-to-market approach using an analytics model that is a readily observable market input. This model reflects the contractual terms of the derivative, such as notional value and expiration date, as well as market-based observables including interest rates, yield curves, and the credit quality of the counterparty. The model also incorporates the Company’s creditworthiness in order to appropriately reflect non-performance risk. Inputs to the derivative pricing model are generally observable and do not contain a high level of subjectivity, and accordingly, the Company’s derivative is classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. While the Company believes its estimate results in a reasonable reflection of the fair value of the instrument, the estimated value may not be representative of actual value that could have been realized or that will be realized in the near future.
In accounting for the interest
rate swap, the Company has determined it does not qualify for hedge accounting. The fair value of the swap agreement as of September 30,
2026 was an asset of $
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
The discussion of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company set forth below should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. This Form10-Q contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The statements contained in this Form10-Q that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. When used in this Form 10-Q, or in the documents incorporated by reference into this Form 10-Q, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “intend” and “expect” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the statements regarding the Company’s strategy, future sales, future expenses, future liquidity, and capital resources. All forward-looking statements in this Form 10-Q are based upon information available to the Company on the date of this Form 10-Q, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. The Company’s actual results could differ materially from those discussed in this Form 10-Q for many reasons. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences (“Cautionary Statements”) include, but are not limited to, those discussed in Item 1. Business — “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, which are incorporated by reference into this Form 10-Q. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company, or persons acting on the Company’s behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the Cautionary Statements.
Overview
ACCESS Newswire Inc. and its subsidiaries are hereinafter collectively referred to as “ACCESS,” “ACCESS Newswire,” the “Company,” “We” or “Our” unless otherwise noted.
We are a Delaware corporation formed in October 1988 under the name Docucon Incorporated. In December 2007, we changed our name to Issuer Direct Corporation, and then effective January 27, 2025, we changed our name from Issuer Direct Corporation to ACCESS Newswire Inc.
Our principal executive offices are located at One Glenwood Ave., Suite 1001, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27603, and our main telephone number is 888-808-ACCS (2227). Our website address is https://www.accessnewswire.com.
Both the Company and its executive officers announce material financial information to our investors using our investor relations website, SEC filings, investor events, news and earnings releases, public conference calls, webcasts, and social media. We use these channels to communicate with our investors and the public about our company, our products and services and other related matters. It is possible that information we post on some of these channels could be deemed to be material information. Therefore, we encourage investors, the media and others interested in ACCESS to review the information we post to all our channels, including our social media accounts.
We offer a dynamic customer platform that empowers businesses to connect, engage and build their brands. Our platform streamlines Public Relations (PR) and Investor Relations (IR), helping organizations manage events, enhance communication and strategically distribute their messaging to key stakeholders, including investors, media professionals, markets, and regulatory systems worldwide. Today, thousands of customers—from emerging startups to multi-billion-dollar global brands—trust our ACCESS platforms to elevate their reach and impact.
Specifically, the core products that encompass our platform are the following: Press Release Distribution, Media Monitoring, Database and Pitching, as well as Investor Relations Websites and Earnings and Event technologies.
We focus on selling to small and mid-market businesses, which we define as companies that have between 2 and 2,000 employees. In late 2024, we launched our new subscription platform to existing customers only, and at the beginning of 2025, officially released it as part of our rebrand to ACCESS Newswire. As of September 30, 2026, we had 1,202 subscriptions with an annual recurring revenue (“ARR”) of approximately $13.5 million.
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Sale of our Compliance Business
On February 28, 2025, the Company and Direct Transfer, LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary, entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Equiniti Trust Company, LLC (the “Buyer”). Pursuant to, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Purchase Agreement, the Buyer purchased certain assets related to the Company’s Compliance business (the “Purchased Assets”). The Purchased Assets consisted of certain accounts receivable, prepaid assets, contracts and intellectual property, among other things, related to the Company’s services of providing i) disclosure software and services for financial reporting, ii) stock transfer services, iii) annual meeting, print and shareholder distribution and fulfillment services and iv) virtual annual meeting services (but not the intellectual property relating to the virtual annual meeting services). Revenue related to these services was previously included in the Company’s “compliance revenue” stream as reported with the SEC in previous filings, except revenue related to virtual annual meeting services, which was previously reported in the “communications revenue” stream in previous SEC filings. Additionally, revenue related to providing SEDAR services and revenue related to our whistleblower hotline, which was previously reported as “Compliance revenue” was retained by the Company. The Buyer only assumed certain liabilities related to the Purchased Assets, which included certain accounts payable, accrued liabilities and deferred revenue.
Our Platform
In previous periods we have sold our products in different bundles and names, such as Media Suite and/or as a Communications platform. As part of our rebrand, in January 2025 we consolidated the naming conventions, product sets and subscriptions to be less onerous on the customers, easier to subscribe to and significantly clearer to the investment community.
Our communications platform consists of the following subscriptions:
ACCESS PR – a subscription that includes press release distribution, media monitoring, pitching and database.
ACCESS IR – a subscription that includes investor relations website, quarterly earnings calls, and press release distribution to cover the announcement of your earnings date and actual earnings releases.
ALL ACCESS – encompasses the best of both ACCESS PR and ACCESS IR into a customized platform for each customer.
As an option, the Company provides customers with the ability to purchase stand-alone solutions to try each of its products before subscribing to our platform. For example, a small company looking to build their brand and tell their story would utilize the press release distribution product from ACCESS Newswire in a pay-as-you-go option.
Products in the Platform
Press Release Distribution. Our flagship press release distribution service—marketed under the brands ACCESS Newswire, Newswire.com, and PressRelease.com—offers comprehensive news dissemination and media outreach solutions for both private and public companies worldwide. We believe ACCESS is emerging as a competitive force in the newswire industry, leveraging advanced technology to provide customers with greater control and flexibility. Users can choose self-publishing or AI-assisted creations of their press releases, which is reviewed by our expert editorial team for compliance and professional review. We continue to expand our distribution network, refine targeting capabilities, and enhance analytics reporting to maximize impact.
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Our platform also includes a seamless e-commerce experience, allowing customers to self-select distribution options, register, and upload their press releases for editorial review within minutes. These innovations have contributed to the historical growth of press release distribution products, a trend we anticipate will continue in the coming years.
Additionally, we maintain high gross margins while offering flexible pricing options, enabling customers to pay per release or opt for long-term contract commitments. Our core press release distribution service is integrated into all three ACCESS subscription plans, ensuring greater value for our customers.
Insight & Analytics is our new AI-Assisted platform that replaces the industry's old, static, traditional distribution report by combining real-time distribution data with AI-powered editorial intelligence to deliver something we believe the PR industry has never had - useful information. There are two components: 1) Insights Report – a report generated within 24 hours of a release going out that scores press release content across specific structured AI metrics. 2) Analytics Report – a report which refreshes on demand (up to 10 times per day), showing real-time media pickups, engagement rates, and geographic reach. This new feature was introduced in the second quarter of 2026 and is available either as a subscription add-on or individually to agencies and customers who want the benefits of sentiment and engagement for important press releases.
Media Database. Our media database is based on the idea that pitching the media should be a targeted endeavor. Our dataset includes only the journalists that are actively writing and publishing articles. We built this component in reverse, looking at the tens of millions of articles published annually and sorted articles by industry, publication and journalist, then curated the most accurate data of each contact and made it available within our media database. Additionally, within the interface we made it easy to see each article published by every journalist a user may want to connect with, making our media suite a compelling combination of the right features and intelligence between database, pitching, and monitoring.
Media Pitching. Pitching is a critical part of our media suite because it allows the user to contact and connect with the most active journalists in their industry. Our media suite not only gives the user the professionals to pitch, it also offers AIMee, our AI writing and recommendation engine, to enhance the user’s message, write a new message and highlight engage-able content to help bring their pitch to the forefront.
Media Monitoring. A brand monitoring solution is extremely important, and every company should consider monitoring not only their brands, but their products, executives and competitors mentioned in all mediums – print, broadcast media and television, web, radio, video, blogs and social media. Our monitoring solution offers many of these mediums and we will continue to undergo expansion in each of these mediums with a goal of being a comprehensive media monitoring solution within the next year. Our media monitoring solution ties together our journalist contacts and mention analytics into and with a customer’s dashboard of daily activity.
Social Monitoring. A new monitoring add-on to our ACCESS PR suite of products is a comprehensive brand intelligence solution integrated directly into all new ACCESS PR Subscriptions. It provides real-time tracking of brand mentions, competitor activity, and industry trends across eight major social platforms — X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Reddit, YouTube, Weibo, and Threads — all accessible from a single unified dashboard. Core capabilities include sentiment analysis, real-time alerts for activity spikes, and competitive benchmarking, enabling PR and communications teams, brand marketers, and agencies to stay ahead of emerging conversations before they reach mainstream coverage. By consolidating social monitoring alongside press release distribution, media monitoring, media pitching and analytics within one platform, ACCESS Newswire eliminates the need for disconnected point solutions and gives users a seamless, end-to-end view of their earned media impact and social presence.
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Media Room. A natural addition to our public relations and investor relations website business. This product offering can be an add-on to any customer’s subscription. The media room suite includes a custom newsroom page builder, a brand asset manager and contact manager.
Our media room addresses the needs of our customers looking to build connections with media, journalists, customers and if applicable the investment community. According to TekGroup’s latest survey, a majority of journalists and media professionals indicated the importance of media rooms that include digital media, press kits and video. We believe our media room accomplishes this by making it a part of our subscription platform or stand-alone offering, giving us a further competitive advantage in the market. This also allows our customers to have one media platform to manage all their assets, brands and outreach.
Press Release Optimizer (“PRO”). Our PRO offering automates media and marketing communications for businesses seeking to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time for the right purpose. Through the PRO offering, we provide content and media communications services that provide customers the opportunity to optimize their content and increase their media visibility, therefore building their brand awareness and engaging a larger audience. With the flexibility of these offerings, customers have the ability to now choose to add a PRO solution to any of their ACCESS subscriptions.
Webcasting & Events. Our webcasting and events business is comprised of our earnings call webcasting solutions and our virtual meeting and events software (such as deal/non-deal road shows, analyst days and shareholder days).
Our Webcasting Platform is a cloud-based webcast, webinar and virtual meeting platform that allows customers to create, produce and deliver live and on-demand streaming of events to audiences of all sizes. The platform architecture gives us the ability to host thousands of webcasts each year, expanding and diversifying our webcast business from our historical earnings-based events to include any type of virtual event.
Traditional earnings calls and webcasts are a highly competitive market with the majority of the business being driven from practitioners in investor relations and communications firms. We estimate there are approximately 4,000 companies in North America conducting earnings events each quarter that include a teleconference, webcast or both as part of their events. Our platform incorporates other elements of the earnings event, including earnings date/call announcement, and earnings press release. There are a handful of our competitors that can offer this integrated full-service solution today, however, we believe our real-time event setup and integrated approach offers a more effective way to manage the process. As we expand our platform, it is vital for us to have solutions that service both our core public companies but also a growing segment of private customers.
Professional Conference and Events Software. Our professional conference and events software is a subscription offering we currently license to investor conference organizers. This software, which is also available as a native mobile app, offers organizers, issuers and investors the ability to register, request and approve one-on-one meetings, manage schedules, perform event promotion and sponsorship, print attendee badges and manage lodging. This cloud-based product can be used in a virtual or in-person conference setting and is integrated within other offerings of press release distribution, media rooms and webcasting and events. We believe this integration gives us a unique offering for professional conference organizers that is not available elsewhere in the market.
Investor Relations Websites. Our investor relations content network is another component of our platform, which is used to create the investor relations’ tab of a company’s website. This investor relations content network is a robust series of data feeds including news feeds, stock feeds, fundamentals, regulatory filings, corporate governance and many other components which are aggregated from most of the major exchanges and news distribution outlets around the world. Customers can subscribe to one or more of these data feeds or as a component of a fully designed and hosted website for pre-IPO companies, SEC reporting companies and partners seeking to display our content on their corporate sites. The clear benefit to our investor relations content network is its integration with our other offerings. As such, companies can produce content for public distribution and it is automatically linked to their corporate website, distributed to targeted groups and placed into our data feed partners.
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Incident Hotline. Formerly our whistleblower hotline offering, this system delivers secure notifications and basic incident workflow management processes that align with a company’s corporate governance policies. As a supported and subsidized bundle product of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) offerings, we are introduced to new IPO customers and other larger cap customers listed on the NYSE. Since 2014, we have been a named NYSE subsidy provider of this incident response and management solution.
Recent Developments
In October 2026, we implemented a cost savings initiative designed to align our cost structure with current market conditions and our strategic priorities. The initiative included a reduction in headcount across our sales, product development, editorial and operations functions, and some other changes across our vendor expenditures. We expect the initiative to generate annualized cost savings of more than $1,500,000, with a partial benefit in the fourth quarter of 2026 and the full benefit beginning in the first quarter of 2027. Severance payments as a result of the terminations are immaterial and we do not expect to incur other material charges in connection with the initiative.
Our estimates of the expected cost savings, their timing and the related costs are forward-looking statements based on current assumptions. Actual savings and costs may differ materially from our estimates. For example, we may need to reinvest a portion of the savings in our business, or we may be unable to realize the savings without adversely affecting our sales, customer service or product development efforts. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”.
Results of Operations
Comparison of results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 (in thousands):
Three Months Ended September 30, | Percentage of Revenue | |||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 5,515 | $ | 5,723 | ||||||||||||
| Cost of Revenues | 1,358 | 1,455 | 25% | 25% | ||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 4,157 | 4,268 | 75% | 75% | ||||||||||||
| Operating Expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 1,408 | 1,484 | 26% | 26% | ||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 1,707 | 1,626 | 31% | 28% | ||||||||||||
| Product development | 538 | 684 | 10% | 12% | ||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 646 | 658 | 12% | 11% | ||||||||||||
| Total expenses | 4,299 | 4,452 | 78% | 78% | ||||||||||||
| Operating loss | (142 | ) | (184 | ) | (3% | ) | (3% | ) | ||||||||
| Interest income (expense), net | (34 | ) | 207 | (1% | ) | 4% | ||||||||||
| Other income (expense) | 88 | (1 | ) | 2% | – | |||||||||||
| Income (loss) before income taxes | (88 | ) | 22 | (2% | ) | – | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (8 | ) | 67 | – | 1% | |||||||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations | $ | (80 | ) | $ | (45 | ) | (1% | ) | (1% | ) | ||||||
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Nine Months Ended September 30, | Percentage of Revenue | |||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 16,460 | $ | 16,820 | ||||||||||||
| Cost of Revenues | 4,240 | 3,994 | 26% | 24% | ||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 12,220 | 12,826 | 74% | 76% | ||||||||||||
| Operating Expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 4,539 | 5,189 | 28% | 31% | ||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 5,277 | 4,682 | 32% | 28% | ||||||||||||
| Product development | 1,631 | 2,072 | 10% | 12% | ||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 1,940 | 1,993 | 12% | 12% | ||||||||||||
| Total expenses | 13,387 | 13,936 | 81% | 83% | ||||||||||||
| Operating loss | (1,167 | ) | (1,110 | ) | (7% | ) | (7% | ) | ||||||||
| Interest income (expense), net | (111 | ) | 14 | (1% | ) | – | ||||||||||
| Other income (expense) | 157 | (80 | ) | 1% | – | |||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (1,121 | ) | (1,176 | ) | (7% | ) | (7% | ) | ||||||||
| Income tax benefit | (76 | ) | (127 | ) | – | (1% | ) | |||||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations | $ | (1,045 | ) | $ | (1,049 | ) | (6% | ) | (6% | ) | ||||||
Revenues
Total revenue was $5,515,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2026, down 4%, or $208,000, compared to $5,723,000 for the same period in 2025. Total revenue decreased $360,000, or 2%, to $16,460,000 during the nine months ended September 30, 2026, as compared to $16,820,000 for the same period in 2025. For the three months ended September 30, 2026, the decrease is primarily due to a decrease in core press release business due to a decrease in volume resulting from softer industry conditions. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, the decrease is due to a combination of lower core press release revenue, lower revenue from our PRO product and lower revenue from our webcasting and events business.
Revenue Backlog
As of September 30, 2026, our deferred revenue balance was $5,011,000, which we expect to recognize over the next twelve months, as compared to $5,265,000 at December 31, 2025. Deferred revenue primarily consists of advance billings for pre-paid packages of our news distribution products as well as advance billings for subscriptions of our cloud-based products.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues consist primarily of direct labor costs, newswire distribution costs, teleconferencing costs, and third-party licensing costs. Cost of revenues decreased by $97,000, or 7%, for the three months ended September 30, 2026 and increased $246,000, or 6%, during the nine months ended September 30, 2026, as compared to the same periods of 2025. The decrease for the three months ended September 30, 2026 was primarily the result of decreased distribution costs from variable contracts mostly due to the decrease in volume. However, for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, the increase is primarily due to increases in press release distribution costs resulting from a combination of new partners, increased prices from current partners and additional usage under variable contracts. Overall gross margin decreased $111,000, or 3%, and $606,000, or 5%, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, compared to the same periods of 2025. As a result, gross margin percentage was 75% and 74% during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to 75% and 76% during the same periods of 2025. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, the decrease in gross margin percentage is primarily the result of the increase in cost of revenues.
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General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries, bonuses, stock-based compensation, insurance, professional service fees, general corporate expenses (including bad debt expense) and facility and equipment expenses. General and administrative expenses decreased $76,000 or 5%, and $650,000, or 13%, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to the same period of 2025. The decrease is primarily due to a reduction in non-recurring and bad debt expenses during the periods. Additionally, insurance and office expenses were lower as a result of selling the compliance business and moving to a remote work environment.
As a percentage of revenue, general and administrative expenses were 26% and 28% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to 26% and 31% for the same periods of 2025.
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of salaries, stock-based compensation, sales commissions, advertising expenses, tradeshow expenses and other marketing expenses. Sales and marketing expenses increased $81,000, or 5%, and $595,000, or 13%, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to the same periods of 2025. This increase is primarily due to our increased investment in tradeshows and advertising. As noted above in “Recent Developments”, we expect sales and marketing expenses to decrease in the near-future due to our recent cost savings initiative.
As a percentage of revenue, sales and marketing expenses were 31% and 32% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to 28% for the same periods of 2025.
Product Development Expenses
Product development expenses consist primarily of salaries, stock-based compensation, bonuses, and licenses to develop new products and technology to complement and/or enhance our platform. Product development expenses decreased $146,000, or 21%, and $441,000, also 21%, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to the same period of 2025. This decrease was primarily due to an increase in capitalized software, as the Company capitalized software in the amounts of $94,000 and $303,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, compared to $0 and $23,000 during the same periods of the prior year.
As a percentage of revenue, both capitalized and non-capitalized product development expenses were 11% and 12% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, compared to 12% for the same periods of 2025.
Interest Income (Expense), Net
We recognized interest expense of $39,000 and $124,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, respectively, as compared to $57,000 and $325,000 during the same periods of 2025, which is all related to our long-term credit agreement. The decrease in interest expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 is due to the reduction in debt as a result of the pay down from the sale of the compliance business. These amounts are offset by interest income on deposit and money market accounts of $5,000 and $13,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared to $264,000 and $339,000 for the same periods of the prior year.
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Other income (expense)
Other income (expense) represents the change in fair value of our interest rate swap. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, Other income (expense) also includes rental income from our office sub-lease of $73,000 and $123,000, respectively.
Income Taxes
We recognized income tax benefit of $8,000 and $76,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared to an income tax expense of $67,000 and an income tax benefit of $127,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, the variance between our effective tax rate and the U.S. statutory rate of 21% is primarily attributable to state income tax, a benefit related to the Foreign Derived Intangible Income ("FDII") deduction and a lower statutory tax rate applied to the Company's Canadian income. This is partially offset by additional expense associated with vesting of stock-based compensation awards
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of September 30, 2026, we had $2,989,000 in cash and cash equivalents and $3,423,000 in net accounts receivable. Current liabilities as of September 30, 2026, totaled $8,970,000 including the current portion of our long-term debt, accounts payable, deferred revenue, accrued payroll liabilities, income taxes payable, current portion of lease liabilities and other accrued expenses.
As of September 30, 2026, our current liabilities exceeded our current assets by $1,643,000. While our current liabilities exceed current assets, we believe our ability to renegotiate our Credit Agreement (see Note 9) and ability to continue to generate cash will benefit us in the future.
As of September 30, 2026, the aggregate principal amount of our Revolving LOC was $1,500,000 and is set to expire June 30, 2028. We currently have no plans to utilize the Revolving LOC but may do so in the future. If the Company does utilize any funds under the Revolving LOC, the funds will bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the then current SOFR plus 2.05%. As of September 30, 2026, there was no outstanding balance under the Revolving LOC and the interest rate was 5.73%.
Disclosure about Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any transactions, agreements or other contractual arrangements that constitute off-balance sheet arrangements.
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Non-GAAP Measures
The non-GAAP adjustments referenced below and herein relate to the exclusion of stock-based compensation, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and other expenses the Company believes to be non-recurring. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP historical financial measures has been provided in the tables below.
Management believes that the use of EBITDA from continuing operations, Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations, non-GAAP net income from continuing operations, non-GAAP net income from continuing operations per share, free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow is helpful to its investors. These measures, which are referred to as non-GAAP financial measures, are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP. Our management uses these non-GAAP financial measures as tools for financial and operational decision making and for evaluating our own operating results over different periods of time.
EBITDA from continuing operations is calculated by excluding depreciation and amortization, interest expense, net, and income taxes from the loss from continuing operations. Adjusted EBITDA also excludes stock-based compensation expense, acquisition and integration costs, certain other expenses which the Company believes to be non-recurring as well as the gain or loss on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap.
Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations is calculated by excluding stock-based compensation expense and amortization expense for acquisition-related intangible assets from loss from continuing operations and certain other adjustments noted in the tables below. Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations per share is calculated by dividing non-GAAP net income from continuing operations by the weighted-average diluted shares outstanding as presented in the calculation of GAAP net income (loss) from continuing operations per share. Because of varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of equity instruments that can impact a company’s non-cash expenses, management believes that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude stock-based compensation expense allows for more meaningful comparisons between its operating results from period to period. For business combinations, management generally allocates a portion of the purchase price to intangible assets. The amount of the allocation is based on estimates and assumptions made by management and is subject to amortization. The amount of purchase price allocated to intangible assets and the term of its related amortization can vary significantly and are unique to each acquisition and thus management does not believe they are reflective of ongoing operations.
Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measure, represents cash flow from operating activities less purchases of property and equipment and capitalized software. Adjusted free cash flow also deducts certain cash payments which the Company believe to be non-recurring in nature. Management considers free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow to be liquidity measures that provide useful information to investors about the amount of cash generated or used by the business.
Non-GAAP financial measures may not provide information that is directly comparable to that provided by other companies in our industry, as other companies in the industry may calculate non-GAAP financial results differently. In addition, there are limitations in using non-GAAP financial measures because the non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies and exclude expenses that may have a material impact on our reported financial results.
The presentation of non-GAAP financial information below and herein is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Investors should review the reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures included below and not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.
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A reconciliation of net income to adjusted EBITDA for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 is presented in the following table (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||
| Amount | Amount | |||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations: | $ | (80 | ) | $ | (45 | ) | ||
| Adjustments: | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 742 | 722 | ||||||
| Interest expense, net | 34 | (207 | ) | |||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (8 | ) | 67 | |||||
| EBITDA from continuing operations | 688 | 537 | ||||||
| Acquisition and/or integration costs (1) | – | 42 | ||||||
| Other non-recurring expenses (2) | (15 | ) | 174 | |||||
| Stock-based compensation expense (3) | 156 | 180 | ||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations: | $ | 829 | $ | 933 | ||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||
| Amount | Amount | |||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations: | $ | (1,045 | ) | $ | (1,049 | ) | ||
| Adjustments: | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 2,174 | 2,203 | ||||||
| Interest expense, net | 111 | (14 | ) | |||||
| Income tax benefit | (76 | ) | (127 | ) | ||||
| EBITDA from continuing operations | 1,164 | 1,013 | ||||||
| Acquisition and/or integration costs (1) | – | 243 | ||||||
| Other non-recurring expenses (2) | 305 | 505 | ||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense (3) | 566 | 572 | ||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations: | $ | 2,035 | $ | 2,333 | ||||
| (1) | This adjustment gives effect to one-time corporate projects, including acquisition, divestiture and integration related expenses, incurred during the periods. | |
| (2) | For the three months ended September 30, 2026, this adjustment gives effect to the gain on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $15,000. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, this adjustment gives effect to the gain on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $34,000 and non-recurring fees of $339,000. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, this adjustment gives effect to the loss on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $2,000 and non-recurring fees of $172,000. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, this adjustment gives effect to the loss on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $80,000, as well as corporate re-brand costs of $132,000 and non-recurring fees of $293,000. | |
| (3) | The adjustments represent stock-based compensation expense from continuing operations related to awards of stock options, restricted stock units, or common stock in exchange for services. Although we expect to continue to award stock in exchange for services, the amount of stock-based compensation is excluded as it is subject to change as a result of one-time or non-recurring projects. |
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A reconciliation of net income to adjusted net income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 is presented in the following table (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| Amount | Per diluted share | Amount | Per diluted share | |||||||||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations: | $ | (80 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (45 | ) | $ | (0.01 | ) | ||||
| Adjustments: | ||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets(1) | 619 | 0.16 | 622 | 0.16 | ||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense(2) | 156 | 0.04 | 180 | 0.05 | ||||||||||||
| Other unusual items(3) | (15 | ) | – | 216 | 0.06 | |||||||||||
| Tax impact of adjustments(5) | (160 | ) | (0.04 | ) | (213 | ) | (0.06 | ) | ||||||||
| Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations: | $ | 520 | $ | 0.14 | $ | 760 | $ | 0.20 | ||||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – diluted | 3,819 | 3,870 | ||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| Amount | Per diluted share | Amount | Per diluted share | |||||||||||||
| Net loss from continuing operations: | $ | (1,045 | ) | $ | (0.27 | ) | $ | (1,049 | ) | $ | (0.27 | ) | ||||
| Adjustments: | ||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets(1) | 1,859 | 0.48 | 1,882 | 0.49 | ||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense(2) | 566 | 0.15 | 572 | 0.14 | ||||||||||||
| Other unusual items(3) | 305 | 0.08 | 748 | 0.19 | ||||||||||||
| Discrete items impacting income tax expense(4) | 113 | 0.03 | 41 | 0.01 | ||||||||||||
| Tax impact of adjustments(5) | (574 | ) | (0.15 | ) | (672 | ) | (0.17 | ) | ||||||||
| Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations: | $ | 1,224 | $ | 0.32 | $ | 1,522 | $ | 0.39 | ||||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding – diluted | 3,844 | 3,857 | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | The adjustments represent the amortization of intangible assets related to acquired assets and companies. | |
| (2) | The adjustments represent stock-based compensation expense from continuing operations related to awards of stock options, restricted stock units, or common stock in exchange for services. Although we expect to continue to award stock in exchange for services, the amount of stock-based compensation is excluded as it is subject to change as a result of one-time or non-recurring projects. | |
| (3) | For the three months ended September 30, 2026, this adjustment gives effect to the gain on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $15,000. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, this adjustment gives effect to the gain on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $34,000 and non-recurring fees of $339,000. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, this adjustment gives effect to the loss on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $2,000 and non-recurring fees, including acquisition, integration and divestiture costs of $214,000. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, this adjustment gives effect to the loss on the change in fair value of our interest rate swap of $80,000, as well as corporate re-brand costs of $132,000 and non-recurring fees, including acquisition, integration and divestiture costs of $536,000. | |
| (4) | This adjustment gives effect to discrete items that impact income tax expense. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, this relates to additional expense associated with vesting of stock-based compensation awards. | |
| (5) | This adjustment gives effect to the tax impact of all non-GAAP adjustments at the current Federal tax rate of 21%. |
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For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow were as follows (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities (GAAP) | $ | 469 | $ | (582 | ) | |||
| Payments for purchase of fixed assets and capitalized software | (94 | ) | (8 | ) | ||||
| Free cash flow from continuing operations (Non-GAAP) | 375 | (590 | ) | |||||
| Cash paid for other unusual items (2) | – | 172 | ||||||
| Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations (Non-GAAP) | $ | 375 | $ | (418 | ) | |||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities (GAAP) | $ | 1,513 | $ | 300 | ||||
| Payments for purchase of fixed assets and capitalized software | (325 | ) | (43 | ) | ||||
| Free cash flow from continuing operations (Non-GAAP) | 1,188 | 257 | ||||||
| Cash paid for acquisition and integration related items (1) | – | 118 | ||||||
| Cash paid for other unusual items (2) | 189 | 424 | ||||||
| Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations (Non-GAAP) | $ | 1,377 | $ | 799 | ||||
| (1) | This adjustment gives effect to one-time corporate projects, including acquisition, divestiture and integration related expenses, paid during the periods. | |
| (2) | For the nine months ended September 30, 2026 this adjustment relates to payments related to non-recurring expenses. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, this relates to payments related to our corporate re-brand and other non-recurring fees. |
Outlook
The following statements are forward looking and are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested here, including, without limitation, demand for and acceptance of our services, new developments, competition and general economic or market conditions, particularly in the domestic and international capital markets. Refer also to the Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward Looking Statements included in this report.
Market factors like the current military conflicts in Ukraine, Israel and the Middle East, tariff wars, instability in global energy markets, global inflation and the increase of interest rates have contributed to significant global economic and political uncertainty, disrupted global trade and supply chains, adversely impacted many industries, and contributed to significant volatility in financial markets. Overall, despite many uncertainties in the market regarding the economic and political outlook, we believe the demand for our platforms and services is stable in a majority of the markets we serve.
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We believe there is demand for our products around the world as companies seek to find better platforms and tools to disseminate and communicate their messages in a more efficient and collaborative way.
During the quarter, we continued to deploy generative AI tools across our customer-facing platform, including AI assisted press release creation and our Insight & Analytics product, certain of which began generating revenue in the second quarter of this year. Our next planned upgrade to our platform will support Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that allow customers’ AI applications to interact with our services and we have begun using AI tools internally across our operations, data operations, customer analytics and marketing. We expect to introduce additional AI-enabled products in the fourth quarter of this year and to continue investing in these capabilities to remain competitive in an evolving market.
We also believe the continued transition to a platform subscription model has been and will continue to be key for our long-term sustainable growth. We will also continue to focus on the following key strategic initiatives during the remainder of 2026 and into 2027:
| · | Expanding our products and adapting to this changing industry, | |
| · | Expanding customer base, | |
| · | Expanding our newswire distribution, | |
| · | Investing in technology advancements and upgrades, | |
| · | Evaluating acquisitions in areas of strategic focus, | |
| · | Generating profitable sustainable growth, | |
| · | Generating cash flows from operations. |
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to stockholders.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
Not applicable.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
As of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer conducted an evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). Based upon this evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of the end of the period covered by this report and have not materially changed since its most recent annual report. There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended September 30, 2026 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
From time to time, we may be involved in litigation that arises through the normal course of business. As of the date of this filing and except as set forth below, we are neither a party to any litigation nor are we aware of any such threatened or pending litigation which we believe might result in a material adverse effect to our business.
On April 1, 2026, Cycurion, Inc. filed a complaint against the Company in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Wake County, North Carolina, together with an unidentified “John Doe” defendant. The complaint alleges that on March 16, 2026, the Company disseminated a press release concerning Cycurion that the plaintiff contends was fabricated and submitted to the Company by an unauthorized third party, and asserts claims against the Company for common law defamation, violation of the North Carolina Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and common law negligence. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages. The Company believes the claims against it are without merit and intends to defend the matter vigorously. This litigation matter is covered under the Company’s insurance policies. At this time, the Company is unable to reasonably estimate the amount or range of possible loss, if any, that may result from this matter, and accordingly no accrual for any loss contingency has been recorded in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company does not expect the outcome of this litigation to have a material adverse effect on its financial condition or results of operations, or cash flows, although there can be no assurance as to the ultimate outcome.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.
There have been no material changes to our risk factors as previously disclosed in our most recent Form 10-K filing.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS.
Except as set forth below, none.
On December 4, 2025, the Company’s board of directors authorized a stock repurchase program under which the Company was authorized to repurchase up to $1,000,000 of its common shares. The table below shows the shares that have been repurchased under the stock repurchase program during the three months ended September 30, 2026 ($ in thousands, except per share amounts):
| Shares Repurchased | ||||||||||||||||
| Period | Total Number of Shares Repurchased | Average Price Paid Per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program | Maximum Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program | ||||||||||||
| July 1-31, 2026 | 21,230 | $ | 6.95 | 21,230 | $ | 358 | ||||||||||
| August 1-31, 2026 | 29,476 | 5.62 | 29,476 | 193 | ||||||||||||
| September 1-30, 2026 | 24,289 | 5.13 | 24,289 | 68 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 74,995 | $ | 5.84 | 74,995 | $ | – | ||||||||||
ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES.
None.
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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE.
Not applicable.
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION.
Director and Officer Trading Arrangements
During the three months ended
September 30, 2026, no director or officer of the Company
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS.
(a) Exhibits.
| Exhibit Number | Description | |
| 31.1 | Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.* | |
| 31.2 | Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.* | |
| 32.1 | Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.* | |
| 32.2 | Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.* | |
| 101.INS | XBRL Instance Document.** | |
| 101.SCH | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.** | |
| 101.CAL | XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document.** | |
| 101.LAB | XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document.** | |
| 101.PRE | XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document.** | |
| 101.DEF | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document. ** |
_______________________________
| * | filed or furnished herewith |
| ** | submitted electronically herewith |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Date: November 10, 2026
| ACCESS Newswire, Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Brian R. Balbirnie | ||
| Brian R. Balbirnie | |||
| Chief Executive Officer | |||
| By: | /s/ Steven Knerr | ||
| Steven Knerr | |||
| Chief Financial Officer |
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