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Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (BLIN)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for Bridgeline Digital, Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q3 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

Snapshot

Revenue
$15.4M
Revenue growth (YoY)
0.2%
Net income
$-2.5M
Diluted EPS
$-0.25
Gross margin
66.6%
Operating margin
-15.8%
Net margin
-16.4%
FCF margin
-7.3%
ROE
-26.3%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
trailing when available, otherwise FY EPS
Market cap
$12.3M
Long-term debt / equity
0.02×
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended September 30, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at Bridgeline Digital

  • Revenue grew 0.2% to $15M in FY2025, after a 3.3% decline the year before.
  • Operating margin is -15.8% in FY2025, -6.9 pp against -8.9% in FY2021.
  • Most recent quarter Q3 FY2026: revenue $4M, up 2.0% from Q3 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was negative $1M in FY2025.
  • Net loss widened to $3M in FY2025, from $2M in FY2024.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where Bridgeline Digital’s fundamentals sit among the 332 software companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Gross margin66.6%
48th percentile of 264
Operating margin-15.8%
21st percentile of 303
Net margin-16.4%
21st percentile of 307
FCF margin-7.3%
13th percentile of 285
Revenue growth (YoY)+0.2%
20th percentile of 325
ROE-26.3%
21st percentile of 285
Long-term debt / equity0.02×
12th percentile of 127
Short interest1.00d
1st percentile of 330

Bridgeline Digital’s long-term debt to equity of 0.02 ranks in the 12th percentile of the 127 software companies reporting it. Bridgeline Digital’s FCF margin of -7.3% ranks in the 13th percentile of the 285 software companies reporting it.

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Percentiles describe where a figure sits among industry peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 1 quant / multi-strat book among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

Conviction investors
0
+1 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
0
0 new, 0 added
Reduced / exited
2
1 trimmed, 1 exited
Combined position
$181,806
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
Renaissance TechnologiesquantQ2 2026$181,806156.7KReduced

No longer held by: Citadel Advisors (as of Q2 2026)

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
66.4K
settled 2026-08-14
Change vs prior
-28.2%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
1.00
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
76.4K
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-08-1466.4K-28.2%1.00
2026-07-3192.5K-7.4%1.84
2026-07-1599.9K+114.8%1.00
2026-06-3046.5K+2545.5%1.00
2026-06-151.8K-90.8%1.00
2026-05-2919.0K+46.6%1.00
2026-05-1513.0K+99.3%1.00
2026-04-306.5K-23.2%1.00

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue$15.4M$15.4M$15.9M$16.8M$13.3M
Gross profit$10.2M$10.4M$10.9M$11.7M$8.7M
Operating income$-2.4M$-2.0M$-9.9M$-1.9M$-1.2M
Net income$-2.5M$-2.0M$-9.4M$2.1M$-6.7M
Diluted EPS$-0.25$-0.19$-0.91$0.20$-1.47

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Cash and equivalents$1.6M$1.4M$2.4M$2.9M$8.9M
Current assets$3.5M$2.9M$3.7M$4.3M$10.4M
Total assets$15.3M$15.6M$17.6M$27.5M$35.0M
Current liabilities$5.0M$4.7M$4.7M$4.8M$8.3M
Long-term debt$170,000$500,000$700,000$1.0M$1.9M
Total liabilities$5.8M$5.6M$6.2M$7.2M$17.4M
Total equity$9.6M$10.0M$11.5M$20.4M$17.6M

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$-1.1M$-765,000$277,000$-134,000$-989,000
Capital expenditure$18,000$29,000$25,000$117,000$79,000
Free cash flow$-1.1M$-794,000$252,000$-251,000$-1.1M

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend (as reported)

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q3 FY2026$3.9M2.0%$-468,000$-0.04
Q2 FY2026$3.9M1.1%$-432,000$-0.04
Q1 FY2026$3.9M3.2%$-86,000$-0.01
Q4 FY2025$3.9M0.2%$-365,000$-0.03
Q3 FY2025$3.8M-2.3%$-789,000$-0.07
Q2 FY2025$3.9M1.9%$-730,000$-0.10
Q1 FY2025$3.8M1.0%$-634,000$-0.06
Q4 FY2024$3.9M1.7%$-432,000$-0.04

Latest 8 reported quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR.

Company facts

ExchangeNasdaq
SectorTechnology
SIC industryServices-Prepackaged Software
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended September 30, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ3 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2006
SEC CIK1378590

Selected SEC filings

10-K2025-12-19
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10-Q2026-08-13
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10-Q2026-05-15
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10-Q2026-02-12
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10-Q2025-08-14
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8-K2026-08-18
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8-K2026-07-14
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8-K2026-06-16
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.