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CERS
Cerus CorporationNASDAQ
Healthcare • Medical Devices
Factor tilt: Small-Cap Blend
$2.07+2.48%
Close Nov 9, 2026
- Market cap
- $417.42M
- 1 month
- -10.0%
- 3 months
- -19.3%
- 1 year
- +46.8%
- 52-week range
- $1.49$3.28
- Dividend
- No dividends on record
- Short interest
- 8.5% of float16.6M shares · settled Oct 15, 2026 · -5.4% since Sep 30, 2026 · FINRA
Reading stored signals…
Fundamentals · trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026
- Revenue
- $226.57M
- Net income
- -$7.31M
- Free cash flow
- $494K
- Book value
- $76.36M
- Total debt
- $40.11M
- P/E
- —
- Price / sales
- 1.8×
- Price / book
- 5.5×
- FCF yield
- +0.1%
- Net margin
- -3.2%
EODHD (TTM) · as of Nov 9, 2026
End-of-day close from stored market data, not a live quote.
About Cerus Corporation
Cerus Corporation operates as a biomedical products company. The company focuses on developing and commercializing the INTERCEPT Blood System to enhance blood safety. The company offers INTERCEPT Blood System, a proprietary technology for controlling biological replication that is designed to reduce blood-borne pathogens in donated blood components intended for transfusion.
Read more
The company also offers INTERCEPT Blood Systems for platelets plasma, and cryoprecipitation, which is designed to inactivate blood-borne pathogens in platelets and plasma donated for transfusion; INTERCEPT Blood System for red blood cells to inactivate blood-borne pathogens in red blood cells intended for transfusion; INTERCEPT Blood System for Cryoprecipitation that uses its plasma system to produce pathogen reduced cryoprecipitated fibrinogen complex for the treatment and control of bleeding, including massive hemorrhage associated with fibrinogen deficiency, as well as pathogen reduced plasma and cryoprecipitate reduced; and INTERCEPT Illuminator, an LED-based device for blood component treatment. It sells platelet and plasma systems through its direct sales force and distributors in the United States, Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Middle East, Latin America, and internationally. The company was formerly known as CERUS TECHNOLOGIES INC and changed its name to Cerus Corporation in July 1996. The company was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Concord, California.
- Website
- cerus.com
- Headquarters
- Concord, CA, United States
- Employees
- 261
- Listed
- Jan 30, 1997
- Fiscal year ends
- December
Company profile from EODHD, stored Nov 4, 2026.
Quarterly results
The last 8 fiscal quarters from EODHD’s latest stored vendor-normalized figures. These may include restatements. Year over year compares the same quarter a year earlier.
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026filed Nov 2, 2026 | $57.7M | +9.5% | 52.4% | $383.0K | -$550.0K |
| Jun 2026filed Jul 30, 2026 | $57.4M | +9.5% | 51.4% | -$1.9M | -$2.9M |
| Mar 2026filed Apr 30, 2026 | $53.7M | +24.1% | 52.0% | -$354.0K | -$1.6M |
| Dec 2025filed Mar 2, 2026 | $57.8M | +13.7% | 51.5% | -$641.0K | -$2.2M |
| Sep 2025filed Nov 6, 2025 | $52.7M | +14.5% | 53.4% | $1.2M | -$19.0K |
| Jun 2025filed Aug 5, 2025 | $52.4M | +16.3% | 55.2% | -$3.4M | -$5.7M |
| Mar 2025filed May 1, 2025 | $43.2M | +12.7% | 58.8% | -$5.9M | -$7.7M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 26, 2025 | $50.8M | +8.6% | 53.9% | -$1.4M | -$2.5M |
Balance sheet · cash, debt and near-term obligations
What resources sit beside the obligations? These are balances at each fiscal quarter end, not cash earned during the quarter. Amounts are in USD, the reporting currency.
As of
- Reported cash
- $16.4M
- Reported total debt
- $40.1M
- Current assets
- $156.6M
- Current liabilities
- $80.0M
Vendor filing date:
As of
- Reported cash
- $18.0M
- Reported total debt
- $76.8M
- Current assets
- $157.3M
- Current liabilities
- $85.8M
Vendor filing date:
As of
- Reported cash
- $27.9M
- Reported total debt
- $97.4M
- Current assets
- $175.3M
- Current liabilities
- $107.4M
Vendor filing date:
As of
- Reported cash
- $20.0M
- Reported total debt
- $96.9M
- Current assets
- $174.4M
- Current liabilities
- $100.8M
Vendor filing date:
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Compare cash and debt across dates when reviewing its reliance on financing. Current assets can include receivables and inventory; current liabilities include bills as well as borrowings. They are not all spendable cash or all debt. These figures alone do not establish the ability to repay.
Source: EODHD’s latest stored vendor-normalized balance sheets, matched to the same security and fiscal end as these income periods. They may include restatements and are not an originally-filed or knowledge-time history. No net debt, coverage ratio or replacement balance is calculated. Read the SEC guide to financial statements for the distinction between balances and cash flows.
Fiscal years · last 6
| Fiscal year | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025filed Mar 2, 2026 | $206.1M | +14.3% | 54.5% | -$8.7M | -$15.6M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 26, 2025 | $180.3M | +15.3% | 55.2% | -$14.2M | -$20.9M |
| Dec 2023filed Mar 5, 2024 | $156.4M | -3.5% | 55.3% | -$30.1M | -$37.5M |
| Dec 2022filed Mar 1, 2023 | $162.0M | +23.8% | 53.7% | -$34.1M | -$42.8M |
| Dec 2021filed Feb 22, 2022 | $130.9M | +42.4% | 51.5% | -$48.9M | -$54.4M |
| Dec 2020filed Feb 25, 2021 | $91.9M | +23.1% | 55.2% | -$58.3M | -$59.9M |
Annual cash generation
Does profit turn into cash? Compare CERS’s accounting profit with operating cash flow and capital spending. Amounts are in USD.
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$15.6M
- Operating cash flow
- $11.4M
- Capital spending
- $2.8M
- Free cash flow
- $8.5M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$20.9M
- Operating cash flow
- $11.4M
- Capital spending
- $2.8M
- Free cash flow
- $8.5M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$37.5M
- Operating cash flow
- -$43.2M
- Capital spending
- $4.6M
- Free cash flow
- -$47.8M
Earlier cash-flow years
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$42.8M
- Operating cash flow
- -$25.6M
- Capital spending
- $2.0M
- Free cash flow
- -$27.6M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$54.4M
- Operating cash flow
- -$33.9M
- Capital spending
- $910.0K
- Free cash flow
- -$34.8M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$59.9M
- Operating cash flow
- -$41.8M
- Capital spending
- $1.6M
- Free cash flow
- -$43.4M
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Compare cash generation and investment needs with your thesis. Working capital and non-cash charges can separate profit from cash. Capital spending can reduce free cash flow while earnings rise. For a long or short position, that gap alone does not predict a price move.
Cash-flow source and meaning
Source: EODHD annual financial statements, latest stored vendor-normalized figures. These may include restatements and may differ from the filer’s own XBRL. A filing date is not the knowledge date of this version of the values.
Free cash flow is the vendor’s reported figure, shown only when it agrees with operating cash flow less capital spending recorded as a positive outflow. It is not cash guaranteed for dividends or buybacks, and it does not subtract every financing obligation. Missing or sign-incompatible inputs are not filled in. An unlabelled currency is used only for a confirmed domestic USD filer. These are annual statements, not forecasts or an originally-filed history.
Cash allocation: dividends, shares and debt
Where did CERS’s financing cash go? Compare cash paid as dividends with net share and debt transactions across fiscal years. Amounts are in USD, the reporting currency. These are company-wide totals, not per-share payouts.
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- Unavailable
- Net borrowing / repayment
- -$329.0K
- Total financing cash flow
- $5.0M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- Unavailable
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $4.3M
- Total financing cash flow
- $5.0M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- $10.5M
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$175.0K
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $9.9M
- Total financing cash flow
- $10.7M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- $4.2M
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$104.0K
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $212.0K
- Total financing cash flow
- $4.2M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- $13.1M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $21.2M
- Total financing cash flow
- $34.3M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- $88.3M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $3.5M
- Total financing cash flow
- $91.8M
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Compare these uses of cash with operating cash generation and the debt on the balance sheet. A negative net share movement means purchases exceeded issuance; it does not give gross buybacks. A dividend or share purchase can be financed with borrowing, and none of these flows guarantees a future payment or price return.
Allocation source and sign conventions
Source: EODHD annual cash-flow statements, latest stored vendor-normalized values for the same security and fiscal year. These can include restatements; a filing date is not the knowledge date of this version.
Dividends are positive cash paid out. For net share transactions, net borrowing and total financing, positive means cash in and negative means cash out. Net share transactions combine issuance and purchases; they are not gross repurchases, a change in shares outstanding, or stock compensation. Total financing includes other flows and is not the sum of just these three lines. Missing amounts stay unavailable; zero means a reported zero. No FX conversion, shareholder-return total or forecast is inferred.
Company Quality Grade
How steadily did the business compound its per-share book value with dividends over 40 quarters? This historical measure is not a stock-price return or a forecast.
As of · Window to
Grade withheld by the published method. This is not a zero or a poor-quality verdict.
- The filings do not provide the intangible-asset inputs the method requires.
intangibles_untagged - A published method rule prevents admission.
shares_untagged
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Use this to question the durability of the business behind your investment case, alongside its filings and valuation. A withheld grade is a data or method limit, not a sell signal. For a short position, it does not predict timing, borrowing costs or downside. It does not measure your account’s return.
Method, filing sources and publication receipt
Source: SEC first-filed XBRL. Midas Edge API’s published Green Compounders method uses only filings public by the as-of date, split-adjusted shares and the original filed values. Restatements do not replace them. Issuer pools and entity types reflect the SEC submissions captured for this run, not historical classifications at each as-of date.
The primary form fits log book value with reinvested dividends against time. The method checks the starting book and market-cap floors and excludes identified non-reliance/enforcement windows. Its cohort is fixed at capture time, so historical percentiles have capture and survival limits. It does not check audit-opinion going-concern text. This grade is separate from InsiderIQ, HolderIQ and NetCredibility.
Input filings (41 in this window): 0000950170-22-001641; 0000950170-22-007920; 0000950170-22-014855. The links show up to three of the input filings.
Method labels: cover_shares_fallback, going_concern_unchecked, intangibles_carried_forward, no_dividend_fact_zero, preferred_untagged_zero, red_finding_basis_d1_enforcement_naming_issuer, weighted_shares_fallback
- Parameters
- pg-g2-params.v17
- Plane
- sha256:841c1bb46826c45b96472bf9adff6a93c8ce5f5392636cff297045298e9bf517
- Grade row SHA-256
- sha256:5f7e50caa614f3a7c54c344ab939f3c7f580530fd8db228be7cc1e1754682856
- Manifest SHA-256
- sha256:c94c0931ffa7d9818ad0d34110b400f347a53da8a9c7d9aee1013095384d6a8a
- Engine SHA-256
- sha256:defa2e17f100b92a30576940d1632532b5cc4f37a2cb4bcc7fcc881856417811
- Hand-check receipt SHA-256
- sha256:03dd742b7b83e1130b4c01f9beaaf2671b20562c447a337dd047a41ad675ed3c
Short-interest history
FINRA reports open short positions for a settlement date. The publication date is later. These are reported positions, with a separate date for each observation.
Compare the reported short exposure around the dates you bought, sold or watched CERS. A long position benefits from price rises; a short position benefits from falls. A change in these counts does not predict either move.
Settlement Oct 15, 2026
16,628,657 shares short
-951,766 shares (-5.4%) vs Sep 30, 2026
8.5% of the stored float. Published Oct 26, 2026.
Settlement Sep 30, 2026
17,580,423 shares short
-414,398 shares (-2.3%) vs Sep 15, 2026
9% of the stored float. Published Oct 9, 2026.
Settlement Sep 15, 2026
17,994,821 shares short
+277,105 shares (+1.6%) vs Aug 31, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Sep 24, 2026.
Settlement Aug 31, 2026
17,717,716 shares short
+386,930 shares (+2.2%) vs Aug 14, 2026
9.8% of the stored float. Published Sep 10, 2026.
Settlement Aug 14, 2026
17,330,786 shares short
+2,370,624 shares (+15.8%) vs Jul 31, 2026
9.6% of the stored float. Published Aug 25, 2026.
Settlement Jul 31, 2026
14,960,162 shares short
+1,271,473 shares (+9.3%) vs Jul 15, 2026
8.2% of the stored float. Published Aug 11, 2026.
Change = this settlement’s shares short − the previous recorded settlement’s shares short; percentage change divides by that earlier count. A zero earlier count has no percentage change. Split-spanning counts are left uncompared. Float percentages use the stored settlement observation, not today’s float.
Source: stored FINRA equity short-interest records, up to six settlements from the last 240 days. FINRA data and reporting dates · How to read short interest
Dividends and stock splits
See the recorded cash amounts and dates behind CERS’s income, and the splits that change its share count. Dates below are stored event records, not confirmation of a payment to your account.
Cash-dividend records
No qualified cash-dividend records are stored. This does not establish that the company pays no dividend.
Up to six Polygon cash-dividend events, including recorded ex-dates within the next 120 days. Amounts retain their recorded currency and decimal precision. Historical amounts are not restated to a common split basis, annualized, or converted to dollars.
For a long holding, compare the ex-date with when you held the shares and check the pay date against your broker’s cash history. Owning the stock today does not establish past entitlement. For a short holding, a dividend can create a payment obligation to the share lender.
Ex-dates and special dividend rules · Short-sale dividend obligations · Dividend data definitions
Split history
No qualified split events are stored. This does not establish that the stock has never split.
Up to six stored split dates through Nov 10, 2026. Equivalent vendor ratios are combined; conflicting ratios are left out. This history may be incomplete.
A split changes the share count and per-share price basis; it does not by itself add investment value. Put your holding’s earlier and later share counts on the same basis before comparing them. This applies to both long shares and shares owed on a short position.
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Smart money context
Holder IQ: MEDIUM
27 smart-money holders: institutions with a high Holder IQ
Q2 2026, filed Oct 30, 2026
Smart-money 13F trend: distributing (heavy)
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Sentiment: neutral
Last trade: sell 85 days ago
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What it means for you
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: neutral. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Red flags: 2
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What it means for you
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: neutral. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Largest 13-F holders · Q2 2026
187 filers reported a long position in CERS for Q2 2026. 13-F holdings are filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends.
The top 10 hold
55.5%
of the 150.4M shares 13-F filers reported
Moves vs Q1 2026
7 added3 trimmed
Net shares held
-0.4%
across the 10 holders with a comparable Q1 2026 book
| Rank | Holder | Value | Shares | Shares vs Q1 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock, Inc. | $64.9M · 22.2M shares | 22.2M | +3% |
| 2 | ARK Investment Management LLC | $52.4M · 17.9M shares | 17.9M | -6.4% |
| 3 | Vanguard Capital Management LLC | $25M · 8.6M shares | 8.6M | +5.3% |
| 4 | Baker Bros. Advisors LP | $18.7M · 6.4M shares | 6.4M | -36.1% |
| 5 | D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | $16M · 5.5M shares | 5.5M | +47% |
| 6 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | $15M · 5.1M shares | 5.1M | +10.4% |
| 7 | State Street Corp | $13.9M · 4.8M shares | 4.8M | +12.8% |
| 8 | Senvest Management, LLC | $13.5M · 4.6M shares | 4.6M | +12.2% |
| 9 | Acadian Asset Management LLC | $12.5M · 4.3M shares | 4.3M | +15.1% |
| 10 | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, Inc. | $12.1M · 4.1M shares | 4.1M | -8.3% |
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Sign in5% holder filings (13D / 13G)
Holders of more than 5% of CERS file with the SEC within days. A 13D holder may seek to influence the company; a 13G holder is passive. Each holder’s latest filing from the last three years.
| Filed | Holder | % of class |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2026 | Baker Bros. Advisors LP13G · passive · amended | 3.2%under 5% |
| Aug 14, 2026 | ARK Investment Management LLC13G · passive · amended | 8.95% |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Soleus Capital Master Fund LP13G · passive · amended | 1.2%under 5% |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Vanguard Group Inc13G · passive · amended | 0%under 5% |
Moves the factor model did not explain
How much of CERS’s move accompanied the market and its measured style leanings, and how much was left? The residual is unexplained by this fitted model. It does not establish a cause, skill or future alpha.
- Market
- -4.45%
- Style leanings
- -12.97%
- Unexplained residual
- +5.25%
- Stock move
- -12.17%
Window contributions are percentage points of starting stock value. The market bar is the fitted common intercept, not an index return. Market + styles + residual = stock move; opposite signs can offset. Source: daily_returns, dated security_factor_exposures × barra_factor_returns, and stored security_specific_returns; 2026-10-09–2026-11-06, model v1.2.0. Returns are dimensionless on the USD listing; no currency conversion.
Link an account with dated transactions to see what share of your own holding’s move since its purchase-date close was unexplained, with long and short positions distinguished. Your private holdings never enter this public chart.
Dated model observations (20)
Daily percentage returns, not window contributions. Source: the same dated warehouse rows and model v1.2.0; observed 2026-11-10T10:53:30.485Z. Absent sessions are never interpolated; missing or failed inputs stay unavailable.
| Date | Stock | Market | Styles | Residual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1.74% | -0.08% | -2.79% | +1.12% | |
| 0.00% | +0.02% | -1.60% | +1.58% | |
| -0.88% | -1.18% | -3.07% | +3.36% | |
| +0.89% | +0.52% | +1.34% | -0.97% | |
| -3.54% | -1.05% | -4.30% | +1.81% | |
| +1.83% | +0.36% | -0.23% | +1.71% | |
| +4.05% | +0.43% | -0.07% | +3.69% | |
| +3.46% | +0.49% | +0.68% | +2.30% | |
| -3.35% | -1.09% | -2.59% | +0.33% | |
| +0.87% | -0.46% | +0.70% | +0.62% | |
| +1.72% | +0.50% | -0.06% | +1.27% | |
| +1.27% | +0.68% | +2.53% | -1.94% | |
| +0.83% | +0.37% | +0.78% | -0.32% | |
| +0.83% | -0.46% | +1.43% | -0.15% | |
| -6.56% | -1.77% | -3.41% | -1.37% | |
| +3.51% | -0.24% | -1.74% | +5.48% | |
| -0.85% | +0.35% | +0.83% | -2.03% | |
| +3.21% | +1.75% | +0.51% | +0.95% | |
| -11.80% | -3.95% | -3.42% | -4.43% | |
| -5.16% | +0.71% | +1.72% | -7.60% |
How this split is calculated
Each day uses that day’s fitted market intercept and style exposures multiplied by that day’s published factor returns. Their sum plus the independently stored residual must reconcile to the stock return. Window effects are weighted by stock wealth at each day’s start and added; the stock return compounds. Every expected US market session must be present and pass source, identity, model and numerical checks. This retrospective fit is an explanation of measured returns, not evidence of causation or an investable forecast. The window ends at the latest published model session, which can lag the market; today’s unfinished session is excluded.
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