Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$8.16
-2.74% today
1Y Change
+540.46%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (LWLG) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $2.42B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $8.16 and up 540.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +147.7%, EPS growth of +15.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +147.7%, EPS +15.8%, free cash flow +17.4% with operating margin -8765.5% and ROIC -26.0%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at price/sales 10223.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LWLG price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
LWLG
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
LWLG Max Drawdown
-53.95%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for LWLG and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$0.0
FY Net Income
-$18.6M
-8.1% YoY
Free Cash Flow
-$11.4M
+5.6% YoY
Revenue Growth
+147.7%
EPS Growth
+15.8%
Gross Margin
-352.4%
Net Margin
-8576.5%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 237K | 96K | 41K | 0 | 0 |
| Gross Profit | -2M | 88K | 38K | -1M | -879K |
| Operating Income | -21M | -23M | -21M | -17M | -17M |
| EBITDA | -19M | -21M | -20M | -16M | -18M |
| Net Income | -20M | -23M | -21M | -17M | -19M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 69M | 28M | 31M | 24M | 23M |
| Total Assets | 82M | 38M | 42M | 29M | 27M |
| Total Liabilities | 7M | 4M | 5M | 2M | 2M |
| Shareholder Equity | 75M | 33M | 36M | 28M | 25M |
| Total Debt | 3M | 3M | 3M | 358K | 536K |
| Net Debt | -66M | -25M | -29M | -24M | -23M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
10M
+2.2% YoY
Capital Expenditures
1M
+28.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
11M
+5.6% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
-352.4%
Operating Margin
-8765.5%
Net Margin
-8576.5%
ROE
-46.1%
Debt / Equity
0.03x
Next Step
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