If You Invested in Signal Advance Inc (SIGL)
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Real historical value by amount invested and how long ago| If you invested | 1 year ago | 5 years ago | 10 years ago | Since Jan 11, 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $256 -74% | $97 -90% | — | $1.96 -99.80% |
| $10,000 | $2,560 -74% | $974 -90% | — | $20 -99.80% |
Based on real historical closing prices adjusted for stock splits, without dividends, through 2026-11-05. Figures with dividends reinvest each cash dividend at the previous close less the dividend, before taxes. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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SIGL annual performance| Year | Start Price | End Price | Annual Return | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021Jan 11, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021 | $38.70 | $0.28 | -99.3% | -99.3% |
| 2022 | $0.28 | $0.1103 | -60.6% | -99.7% |
| 2023 | $0.1103 | $0.0650 | -41.1% | -99.8% |
| 2024 | $0.0650 | $0.0710 | +9.2% | -99.8% |
| 2025 | $0.0710 | $0.1619 | +128.0% | -99.6% |
| 2026Dec 31, 2025 to Nov 5, 2026 | $0.1619 | $0.0760 | -53.1% | -99.8% |
About Signal Advance Inc
Technology · OTC
Signal Advance, Inc. (SIGL) is an emerging technology research and development company focused on proprietary analog signal technologies and physics-based cybersecurity. According to company disclosures, Signal Advance develops technologies at the intersection of analog signal processing, temporal signal management, and cybersecurity, with applications in multiple technical and industrial domains.
The company’s work centers on its patented Signal Advance technology, which is designed to offset or reduce signal delays to improve response time in analog signal detection. This core technology underpins a range of potential applications in medical, commercial, industrial controls, communications, transportation, cybersecurity, and military defense markets. By addressing latency and timing in analog signals, the company targets environments where faster and more precise responses can improve performance and safety.
A major focus for Signal Advance is its Analog Guard® platform, described as a physics-based, analog-domain encryption system. The company states that Analog Guard is designed to provide AI-resistant and quantum-resilient cybersecurity by embedding protection directly into analog signal behavior rather than relying on traditional math-based, digital encryption. This approach is intended to reduce exploitable structure in encrypted data, making it difficult for both conventional and advanced machine-learning models to infer keys or messages.
Business focus and technology
Signal Advance describes itself as an emerging technology research and development company. Its activities include developing, testing, and seeking to commercialize proprietary technologies based on analog signal processing and temporal signal management. The patented Signal Advance technology is characterized as a means to offset or reduce signal delays in analog detection systems, which can improve response times in systems that depend on timely signal recognition.
Building on this foundation, the company has applied its technology to cybersecurity through the Analog Guard division. Analog Guard encryption integrates the company’s proprietary Signal Advance technology with multiple analog methodologies. The company states that this system is designed to transform cybersecurity by making remote hacking extremely difficult and aiming to virtually eliminate remote attacks on protected systems.
Analog Guard® encryption platform
Signal Advance describes Analog Guard as an analog-domain encryption platform that replaces conventional math-based security with physics-based signal modulation. In company testing and simulations, Analog Guard has been characterized as producing encrypted outputs that are statistically indistinguishable from noise while still allowing precise recovery of the original data upon decryption. The company reports that its simulations demonstrated near-perfect randomness in encrypted signals and perfect data recovery, including in multi-stage encryption configurations.
The company also reports AI-resistance test results in which modern machine-learning architectures, including deep-learning neural networks, performed no better than random guessing when analyzing Analog Guard–encrypted data. According to Signal Advance, these tests showed no learnable relationship between the encrypted signals and their original content, supporting the claim that the analog-domain architecture is inherently resistant to AI-driven cryptanalysis.
In addition, Signal Advance highlights Analog Guard as a post-quantum, physics-based encryption platform intended to address emerging quantum-era and AI-enabled cyber threats. The company states that Analog Guard is designed from the outset using physics rather than mathematical complexity, with the goal of sidestepping computational vulnerabilities that could be exposed by large-scale quantum computing.
Intellectual property and patent activity
Signal Advance emphasizes intellectual property protection around its Analog Guard platform. The company has announced a fast-track U.S. patent allowance for Analog Guard through a Track One process, which it characterizes as a rapid allowance timeline. Following this allowance, Signal Advance reports that it filed a U.S. continuation application to broaden and strengthen claims related to the core Analog Guard mechanism, including timing-synchronized, analog-key-modulated dynamic carriers mixed with message signals.
The company also reports filing a U.S. continuation-in-part application to capture newer proprietary circuit embodiments, multi-channel encryption paths, and end-to-end analog-domain workflows developed since the original patent filing. In addition, Signal Advance states that it has filed national-phase patent applications in China, Germany, and India, which it identifies as strategic jurisdictions for semiconductor manufacturing, defense systems, critical infrastructure, and high-volume OEM/ODM integration.
Target applications and markets
According to company statements, Signal Advance’s technologies are intended for use across a range of sectors. The patented Signal Advance technology is positioned for medical, commercial, industrial controls, communications, transportation, cybersecurity, and military defense applications. In cybersecurity, the Analog Guard platform is described as suitable for industrial and infrastructure control systems (such as SCADA, DCS, PLC, and building controls), IoT devices and sensors, personal communications, wireless wearable devices, implanted medical devices, connected vehicles, as well as government, satellite, military defense, and commercial data communications.
Signal Advance characterizes Analog Guard as a hardware-native encryption alternative that operates in the analog domain while remaining compatible with existing digital networks and future quantum-safe systems. The company has indicated interest in deployment across defense, finance, telecommunications, industrial control, and secure communications markets, and has referenced multi-market licensing potential for its technology.
Corporate and trading information
Signal Advance, Inc. is based in Texas, with company announcements referencing locations such as Houston and Rosharon, Texas. The company’s shares are quoted on the over-the-counter market under the symbol SIGL. Signal Advance has stated that it is current in its periodic filings under the OTC Markets Alternative Reporting Standard and that investors may purchase shares through licensed U.S. brokerage firms in accordance with applicable regulations governing over-the-counter securities.
The company has reported prior financial results, including consolidated results of operations for past fiscal years, through disclosures on OTC Markets and its own channels. It has also held shareholder meetings at which board members were elected or re-elected and corporate proceedings were ratified.
Position within cybersecurity and signal technology
Within cybersecurity, Signal Advance positions Analog Guard as a platform focused on AI-resistant and quantum-resilient encryption, emphasizing its physics-based, analog-domain design. The company describes this as a shift from mathematical cryptography to security rooted in signal physics and temporal behavior. Within signal processing, the underlying Signal Advance technology is presented as a method for improving response times by addressing analog signal delays, with potential relevance to time-sensitive control and detection systems.
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Signal Advance Inc investment returns
How much would $1,000 invested in Signal Advance Inc be worth today?
If you invested $1,000 in Signal Advance Inc (SIGL) 5 years ago on 2021-11-08, your investment would be worth $97 as of 2026-11-05, a -90.3% price return without dividends, growing at a compounded rate of -37.3% per year (CAGR).
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What is Signal Advance Inc's average annual return?
The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of SIGL’s share price over the past 5 years is -37.3%, without dividends. Individual years vary a great deal, and SIGL’s best recent full year was 2025 (+128.0%) while the worst was 2022 (-60.6%).
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