# Dmc Global (BOOM.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/BOOM

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:27:03.270Z. Financial observations: FY1996–FY2025.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: $5.24 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 4 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- more than 2 net loss years

- operating margin variation exceeds 0.35

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 4

- Years with a net loss: 6

- Operating margin variation: 11.37×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -0.03×

- FY2017: -0.06×

- FY2018: 0.11×

- FY2019: 0.15×

- FY2020: -0.00×

- FY2021: -0.01×

- FY2022: 0.05×

- FY2023: 0.09×

- FY2024: -0.20×

- FY2025: 0.01×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- Recent gross margin fell 4.4pp below the typical margin (limit 4pp)

- ROIC, median of available years: 0.2%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: -8.0%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: 4.4 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 26.6%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 22.2%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 3.3%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: -0.1%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -3.7%

- FY2017: -8.0%

- FY2018: 21.4%

- FY2019: 22.1%

- FY2020: -0.5%

- FY2021: -0.5%

- FY2022: 5.1%

- FY2023: 11.0%

- FY2024: -29.4%

- FY2025: 0.8%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: -$53M

- Net income, five-year total: -$146M

- Return on incremental invested capital: 24.6%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: 0.6 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 1.8 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 32.1%

Chart: Owner earnings · five years; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: -$591K

- FY2022: $47M

- FY2023: $42M

- FY2024: -$141M

- FY2025: -$437K

### management: fail

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2016 to 2025 (9 years)

- potential debt-funded buybacks (informational)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: -3.7% vs 0.8%

- Per-share earnings: -1.31 to -0.90 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- five-year and ten-year diluted share growth both above threshold

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 3.6%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 6.1%

- Market cap gain: -$97M

- Cumulative retained earnings: -$94M

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 3.6%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 6.1%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2016

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value change: $0.42

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: -$1.31

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: -$0.90

- Buybacks concentrated in cheaper years (correlation): -0.28

- Average buyback yield: 0.4%

- Buyback history: 10 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: Yes

- Acquisition spending: $397M

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: -$108M

- ROIC, first three-year median: -3.7%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 0.8%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -$0.46

- FY2017: -$1.31

- FY2018: $2.08

- FY2019: $2.32

- FY2020: -$0.10

- FY2021: -$0.26

- FY2022: $0.73

- FY2023: $1.10

- FY2024: -$8.07

- FY2025: -$0.90

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -11.2%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 0.96×

- Restructuring years, last five: 1

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 10.4%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.64×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -15.2%

- FY2017: -14.8%

- FY2018: 1.2%

- FY2019: -11.0%

- FY2020: -11.4%

- FY2021: 0.9%

- FY2022: -3.5%

- FY2023: -5.0%

- FY2024: -30.6%

- FY2025: -11.2%

## Holders

## Price story

Down 87% since Oct 2021 · "DMC Global outlines $132M–$138M Q1 2026 sales target amid tariff headwinds and cost actions" (seekingalpha.com, Feb 2026) · sales -5.1%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:58:25.383Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

- 2025-08-06: DMC Global outlines $142M–$150M Q3 sales target as debt reduction accelerates amid tariff headwinds ([seekingalpha.com](https://seekingalpha.com/news/4479414-dmc-global-outlines-142m-150m-q3-sales-target-as-debt-reduction-accelerates-amid-tariff?utm_source=feed_news_all&utm_medium=referral&feed_item_type=news))

- 2026-02-24: DMC Global outlines $132M–$138M Q1 2026 sales target amid tariff headwinds and cost actions ([seekingalpha.com](https://seekingalpha.com/news/4555570-dmc-global-outlines-132m-138m-q1-2026-sales-target-amid-tariff-headwinds-and-cost-actions?utm_source=feed_news_all&utm_medium=referral&feed_item_type=news))

### Sales · FY2024–2025

sales -5.1%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34067/000003406726000009/boom-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-23.

- FY2016: $159M 

- FY2017: $193M 

- FY2018: $326M 

- FY2019: $398M 

- FY2020: $229M 

- FY2021: $260M 

- FY2022: $654M 

- FY2023: $719M 

- FY2024: $643M 

- FY2025: $610M 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 22.2%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34067/000003406726000009/boom-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-23.

- FY2016: 24.4% 

- FY2017: 30.8% 

- FY2018: 33.9% 

- FY2019: 36.5% 

- FY2020: 24.8% 

- FY2021: 22.9% 

- FY2022: 28.4% 

- FY2023: 29.5% 

- FY2024: 23.4% 

- FY2025: 22.2% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in conglomerates; annual sales are USD 609.8 million.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34067/000003406726000009/boom-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-23); FY2025: revenue 609840000; grossProfit 135253000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 22.2% to 29.5% during 2023–25; it earns 0.2% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 29.5%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 23.4%.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34067/000003406726000009/boom-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-23); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 22.2%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,-0.03686708608744127],[2017,-0.07963395382490299],[2018,0.2144334778181829],[2019,0.22121271254070238],[2020,-0.004829105727980753],[2021,-0.005073743315508021],[2022,0.05108118589793983],[2023,0.10983207038422087],[2024,-0.2937943090605672],[2025,0.008233741957005858]]; median 0.0017023181145125522. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 7 of 10 years; bought back USD 1.2 million of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); FY2018: growth capex 35575000; upkeep 9520000; owner earnings 30473000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 1.167426902503856.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); FY2019: growth capex 17350000; upkeep 9860000; owner earnings 34041000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.5096795041273758.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); FY2022: growth capex 0; upkeep 18584000; owner earnings 46807000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); FY2023: growth capex 0; upkeep 15974000; owner earnings 41922000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); Dividend observations: [[2016,1150000],[2017,1174000],[2018,1189000],[2019,2762000],[2020,3749000],[2021,150000000],[2022,0],[2023,0],[2024,2500000],[2025,0]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34067/000003406726000009/boom-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-23); FY2025: cash repurchases 1165000 USD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 7.3% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-05); BOOM.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 7.272 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-05.

### What the price says

The price is 0.2 times annual sales; cash earnings are negative.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-23); Closing price 5.24 USD; reporting-to-trading FX 1; FY2025 annual sales per share 30.626726971949605; price multiple 0.1710923927587564. FY2025 cash earnings/share -0.02194654284196179. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (USD per share)

- 2016-10: $10.85 per share

- 2016-11: $16.35 per share

- 2016-12: $15.85 per share

- 2017-01: $15.95 per share

- 2017-02: $14.95 per share

- 2017-03: $12.40 per share

- 2017-04: $15.30 per share

- 2017-05: $12.65 per share

- 2017-06: $13.10 per share

- 2017-07: $13.90 per share

- 2017-08: $12.95 per share

- 2017-09: $16.90 per share

- 2017-10: $21.75 per share

- 2017-11: $20.15 per share

- 2017-12: $25.05 per share

- 2018-01: $22.90 per share

- 2018-02: $21.20 per share

- 2018-03: $26.75 per share

- 2018-04: $38.70 per share

- 2018-05: $44.85 per share

- 2018-06: $44.90 per share

- 2018-07: $41.05 per share

- 2018-08: $39.25 per share

- 2018-09: $40.80 per share

- 2018-10: $38.55 per share

- 2018-11: $36.40 per share

- 2018-12: $35.12 per share

- 2019-01: $34.52 per share

- 2019-02: $46.98 per share

- 2019-03: $49.64 per share

- 2019-04: $69.30 per share

- 2019-05: $67.64 per share

- 2019-06: $63.35 per share

- 2019-07: $52.24 per share

- 2019-08: $43.43 per share

- 2019-09: $43.98 per share

- 2019-10: $44.74 per share

- 2019-11: $46.09 per share

- 2019-12: $44.94 per share

- 2020-01: $41.83 per share

- 2020-02: $36.06 per share

- 2020-03: $23.01 per share

- 2020-04: $25.81 per share

- 2020-05: $28.55 per share

- 2020-06: $27.60 per share

- 2020-07: $29.38 per share

- 2020-08: $35.43 per share

- 2020-09: $32.94 per share

- 2020-10: $35.57 per share

- 2020-11: $40.85 per share

- 2020-12: $43.25 per share

- 2021-01: $57.17 per share

- 2021-02: $62.99 per share

- 2021-03: $54.26 per share

- 2021-04: $54.00 per share

- 2021-05: $52.97 per share

- 2021-06: $56.21 per share

- 2021-07: $43.77 per share

- 2021-08: $40.17 per share

- 2021-09: $36.91 per share

- 2021-10: $41.78 per share

- 2021-11: $36.50 per share

- 2021-12: $39.61 per share

- 2022-01: $40.34 per share

- 2022-02: $29.40 per share

- 2022-03: $30.50 per share

- 2022-04: $19.99 per share

- 2022-05: $27.67 per share

- 2022-06: $18.03 per share

- 2022-07: $22.76 per share

- 2022-08: $22.32 per share

- 2022-09: $15.98 per share

- 2022-10: $21.64 per share

- 2022-11: $18.39 per share

- 2022-12: $19.44 per share

- 2023-01: $22.74 per share

- 2023-02: $26.77 per share

- 2023-03: $21.97 per share

- 2023-04: $18.94 per share

- 2023-05: $16.22 per share

- 2023-06: $17.76 per share

- 2023-07: $18.86 per share

- 2023-08: $24.02 per share

- 2023-09: $24.47 per share

- 2023-10: $18.95 per share

- 2023-11: $15.95 per share

- 2023-12: $18.82 per share

- 2024-01: $17.02 per share

- 2024-02: $16.68 per share

- 2024-03: $19.49 per share

- 2024-04: $15.85 per share

- 2024-05: $12.99 per share

- 2024-06: $14.42 per share

- 2024-07: $13.50 per share

- 2024-08: $12.37 per share

- 2024-09: $12.98 per share

- 2024-10: $10.09 per share

- 2024-11: $8.05 per share

- 2024-12: $7.35 per share

- 2025-01: $8.14 per share

- 2025-02: $8.48 per share

- 2025-03: $8.42 per share

- 2025-04: $6.49 per share

- 2025-05: $6.46 per share

- 2025-06: $8.06 per share

- 2025-07: $8.09 per share

- 2025-08: $6.70 per share

- 2025-09: $8.45 per share

- 2025-10: $8.06 per share

- 2025-11: $6.21 per share

- 2025-12: $6.69 per share

- 2026-01: $8.60 per share

- 2026-02: $5.89 per share

- 2026-03: $5.21 per share

- 2026-04: $6.18 per share

- 2026-05: $6.81 per share

- 2026-06: $5.81 per share

- 2026-07: $6.74 per share

- 2026-08: $7.07 per share

- 2026-09: $5.58 per share

- 2026-10: $5.24 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2022: low $29.67 per share, central $37.46 per share, high $43.69 per share

- FY2023: low $27.27 per share, central $34.58 per share, high $40.23 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original 10-K filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34067/000003406726000009/boom-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-23.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.

## Reported holder observations



# BOOM — DMC Global Inc.

Held by 1 investor · USD 85,960 total · 2025 Q3 · reported price USD 8.42 (split-adjusted).
Page: https://gigainvestors.com/s/BOOM

## Holders (2025 Q3)

| Investor | Value | % of their portfolio | This quarter |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Arnold Van Den Berg (https://gigainvestors.com/VAN) | USD 85,960 | <0.1% | new |

## Total held by quarter

- 2024 Q2: USD 2,639,797 · 1 holder · USD 14.42
- 2024 Q3: USD 796,864 · 1 holder · USD 12.97
- 2024 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2025 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2025 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2025 Q3: USD 85,960 · 1 holder · USD 8.42
- 2025 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders