Aware, Inc. (AWRE)Technology | Software - Application | Burlington, United States | NasdaqGM
1.26 USD
+0.03
(2.439%)
⇧
(Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 1.26 |
Hot Take ↕ | Aug. 22, 2026, 3:55 a.m. EDT
The investment case for this software application company is fundamentally broken. The business is hemorrhaging cash, with operating cash flow and free cash flow both deeply negative, while revenue contracted by 16.5% year-over-year. The company is posting widening losses, and the balance sheet shows negative returns on equity and assets, indicating capital destruction rather than value creation. While the stock trades at a low price-to-book ratio, this reflects the severe impairment of the underlying business quality rather than a margin of safety. The multi-year price trajectory confirms this deterioration, with the share price down over 52% from its peak nine years ago, despite a recent minor uptick. With no dividend to provide income and no credible path to profitability visible in the data, the security offers no compelling rationale for capital allocation. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoARIMA ✓ | 0.083332 |
| MSTL | 0.096547 |
| AutoETS | 0.098056 |
| AutoTheta | 0.118541 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 46% |
| H-stat | 5.49 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.303 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.93 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Ex Dividend Date | 2014-07-24 |
| Last Dividend Date | 2014-07-24 |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 18.461 |
| Revenue per Share | 0.77 |
| Market Cap | 27,483,922 |
| Forward P/E | -9.69 |
| Beta | 1.00 |
| Profit Margins | -51.90% |
| Website | https://www.aware.com |
As of Aug. 22, 2026, 3:55 a.m. EDT: Options activity is extremely thin with negligible open interest across all expirations. There is no meaningful positioning in either calls or puts to indicate a specific speculative bias; the market is effectively inactive regarding this name.
| Date | Dividend | Yield % |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-25 | 1.75 | 35.000000 |
| 2012-12-18 | 1.80 | 34.155598 |
| 2012-05-09 | 1.15 | 18.852459 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.4166667 |
| Address1 | 76 Blanchard Road |
| All Time High | 87.125 |
| All Time Low | 1.02 |
| Ask | 1.7 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 35,790 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 38,368 |
| Average Volume | 38,368 |
| Average Volume10Days | 35,790 |
| Beta | 1.002 |
| Bid | 0.936 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Book Value | 0.951 |
| City | Burlington |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 1.26 |
| Current Ratio | 3.734 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,786,665,600 |
| Day High | 1.29 |
| Day Low | 1.22 |
| Debt To Equity | 18.461 |
| Display Name | Aware |
| Dividend Date | 1,406,160,000 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,785,358,800 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,785,358,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,785,355,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,217,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,217,600 |
| Ebitda | -8,571,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | -0.52157 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | -1.687 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 0.88 |
| Enterprise Value | 14,456,923 |
| Eps Forward | -0.13 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -0.41 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Ex Dividend Date | 1,406,246,400 |
| Exchange | NGM |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 1.2538 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 0.006199956 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.004944932 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -41.666668 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 2.95 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -1.69 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.57288134 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 1.02 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 0.24000001 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.23529413 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 1.02 - 2.95 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 839,597,400,000 |
| Float Shares | 12,090,308 |
| Forward Eps | -0.13 |
| Forward P E | -9.692308 |
| Free Cashflow | -3,848,375 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGM |
| Full Time Employees | 80 |
| Fullday Change | 0.03 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 2.43902 |
| Fullday Price | 1.26 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Gross Margins | 0.89387 |
| Gross Profits | 14,689,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.44492 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.17793 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 21,812,637 |
| Industry | Software - Application |
| Industry Disp | Software - Application |
| Industry Key | software-application |
| Ir Website | http://ir.aware.com/ |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Dividend Date | 1,406,246,400 |
| Last Dividend Value | 1.75 |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Long Business Summary | Aware, Inc., a biometric identity platform company, provides biometrics software products and services for government agencies and commercial entities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company offers biometric software solution, including AwareID, a software-as-a-service that provides identity verification and continuous authentication capabilities; AwareABIS, an automated biometric identification system used for large-scale biometric identification and deduplication; AFIX suite used for small-scale law enforcement focused biometric identification; and AFIX Tracker for fingerprint, palmprint, and latent print identification, as well as AFIX Face, AFIX Verifier, AFIX Identifier, AFIX Comparator, AFIX Engine, and AFIX NIST Transaction Engine. It also provides BioSP, a biometric integration platform-as-a-service that enables biometric data processing and management functionality in a web services architecture; and WebEnroll, a browser-based biometric enrollment and data management solution. In addition, the company offers biometrics applications, such as Nexa line, a biometric search and match SDKs including Nexa Fingerprint, Nexa Face, Nexa Iris, and Nexa Voice; and AwareXM, an interoperable fingerprint matching SDK that provides fingerprint minutiae extraction, template generation, and fingerprint authentication. Further, it sells imaging products used in medical and advanced imaging applications; and offers software maintenance, program management, and software engineering services. The company sells its products and services through systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), value added resellers, partners, and directly to select end user customers. Aware, Inc. was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. |
| Long Name | Aware, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 27,483,922 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_348808 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | -8,529,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 27,047,669 |
| Open | 1.22 |
| Operating Cashflow | -6,748,000 |
| Operating Margins | -0.84172994 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 781 687 0300 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 1.26 |
| Post Market Time | 1,787,947,805 |
| Previous Close | 1.23 |
| Price Hint | 4 |
| Price To Book | 1.3249211 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 1.6724836 |
| Profit Margins | -0.51902 |
| Quick Ratio | 3.531 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.03 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 2.43902 |
| Regular Market Day High | 1.29 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 1.22 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 1.22 - 1.29 |
| Regular Market Open | 1.22 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 1.23 |
| Regular Market Price | 1.26 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,787,947,201 |
| Regular Market Volume | 35,861 |
| Return On Assets | -0.16865999 |
| Return On Equity | -0.35032 |
| Revenue Growth | -0.165 |
| Revenue Per Share | 0.77 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.20204377 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Shares Outstanding | 21,812,637 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.0046 |
| Shares Short | 99,549 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,784,073,600 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 70,024 |
| Short Name | Aware, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.0081 |
| Short Ratio | 2.44 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | MA |
| Symbol | AWRE |
| Total Cash | 16,838,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.772 |
| Total Debt | 3,811,000 |
| Total Revenue | 16,433,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -0.41 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 1.5529 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -0.29289997 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.18861483 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 35,861 |
| Website | https://www.aware.com |
| Zip | 1,803 |