Kartoon Studios, Inc. (TOON)
As-reported financials and SEC filings for Kartoon Studios, Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.
About Kartoon Studios, Inc.
Kartoon Studios, Inc. is a global company that creates, produces, licenses, and distributes animated content for children. It owns and operates Mainframe Studios, a large animation production studio, and Frederator Networks, which runs an animation-focused creator network on YouTube. The company distributes its content through various streaming platforms, television, and its own video-on-demand services, serving children and family audiences worldwide.
Snapshot
Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 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 Kartoon Studios
- Revenue grew 20.7% to $39M in FY2025, after a 26.1% decline the year before.
- Operating margin is -32.8% in FY2025, +776.9 pp against -809.8% in FY2021.
- Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $6M, down 43.4% from Q2 FY2025.
- Free cash flow was negative $12M in FY2025.
- Net loss widened to $25M in FY2025, from $21M 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 Kartoon Studios’s fundamentals sit among the 213 Communication Services companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).
Kartoon Studios’s net margin of -62.3% ranks in the 5th percentile of the 188 Communication Services companies reporting it. Kartoon Studios’s FCF margin of -29.4% ranks in the 7th percentile of the 162 Communication Services companies reporting it. Kartoon Studios’s operating margin of -32.8% ranks in the 12th percentile of the 182 Communication Services companies reporting it.
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Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector 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 2 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.
| Investor | As of | Position value | Shares | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance Technologiesquant | Q2 2026 | $419,094 | 590.3K | Added |
| Citadel Advisorsquant | Q2 2026 | $136,084 | 191.7K | Reduced |
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.
| Settlement | Shares short | Change | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 1.8M | +47.1% | 3.72 |
| 2026-09-15 | 1.2M | -2.3% | 4.83 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1.2M | -34.0% | 5.66 |
| 2026-08-14 | 1.9M | +8.9% | 6.62 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1.7M | -41.9% | 5.04 |
| 2026-07-15 | 2.9M | +125.1% | 1.00 |
| 2026-06-30 | 1.3M | -22.9% | 1.04 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1.7M | +83.7% | 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)
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $39.4M | $32.6M | $44.1M | $62.3M | $7.9M |
| Gross profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating income | $-12.9M | $-17.0M | $-72.4M | $-43.7M | $-63.8M |
| Net income | $-24.5M | $-20.7M | $-77.1M | $-45.6M | $-126.3M |
| Diluted EPS | $-0.49 | $-0.54 | $-2.29 | $-1.45 | $-4.24 |
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 (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.
Balance sheet (as reported)
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and equivalents | $2.9M | $8.4M | $4.1M | $7.4M | $10.1M |
| Current assets | $35.8M | $34.7M | $55.7M | $139.5M | $136.2M |
| Total assets | $70.9M | $85.5M | $111.4M | $239.6M | $174.1M |
| Current liabilities | $33.5M | $33.4M | $45.6M | $110.9M | $21.1M |
| Long-term debt | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total liabilities | $43.4M | $49.0M | $58.2M | $126.7M | $29.4M |
| Total equity | $27.5M | $36.5M | $53.3M | $112.9M | $144.7M |
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 (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.
Cash flow (as reported)
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $-11.4M | $-3.5M | $-16.1M | $-25.9M | $-23.8M |
| Capital expenditure | $151,000 | $117,000 | $72,000 | $592,000 | $302,000 |
| Free cash flow |
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 (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.
Quarterly trend
| Quarter | Revenue | Revenue YoY | Net income | Diluted EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 FY2026 | $5.8M | -43.4% | $27.0M | $0.38 |
| Q1 FY2026 | $7.2M | -23.8% | $-6.4M | $-0.10 |
| Q4 FY2025 | 2.9% | |||
| Q3 FY2025 | $9.9M | 13.4% | $-6.6M | $-0.14 |
| Q2 FY2025 | $10.3M | 22.6% | $-6.2M | $-0.13 |
| Q1 FY2025 | $9.5M | 56.4% | $-6.5M | $-0.14 |
| Q4 FY2024 | 6.9% | |||
| Q3 FY2024 | $8.7M | -13.5% | $-2.1M | $-0.05 |
Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.
Company facts
Selected SEC filings
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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.