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DFNS

T3 Defense Inc.

Next earnings Aug 10, 2026

Avoid
$0.16
▼ -8.36%
$0.16▼ -98.40%
over 1Y
L $0.16H $13.22
Earnings Dividend Split Congress buy Congress sellGrouped by date · hover a pin to expand
Today-8.4%
1W-10.7%
1M-52.3%
3M-76.7%
YTD-96.2%
1Y-98.4%
OverviewFinancialsValuationQualityTimelineFilings
Rating
Avoid
Quality
C-
Valuation
Undervalued
Filings
Flagged
Avoid
Conviction
Horizon
Long (>12mo)

Going-concern penny stock mid-pivot from fintech to defense with negative equity, an accounting-driven 'profit,' and a live dilution machine — uninvestable.

Operating income -$32.6M · FY2025

The read

It screens cheap (~190259% below fair value), but the weak fundamentals are why — more potential value trap than bargain.

DFNS is a $6M-market-cap ($0.16) shell in the middle of an admitted 'unprecedented transformation from financial technology to aerospace and defense' that the company itself says 'lacks any operational track record and may completely fail,' warning of 'total loss of invested capital.' The headline FY2025 net income of $78.5M is an accounting artifact, not earnings: operating income was NEGATIVE $32.6M (a -551% operating margin) and operating cash flow was -$6.2M. The gap is non-operating, largely non-cash items (the filing flags $24.5M of stock-purchase-warrant liabilities 'which will not require any cash to extinguish'). So the $7.96 diluted EPS, the 0.0 P/E, and the 1328% net margin are all noise — the real business burned cash on collapsing revenue (FY2024 revenue $5.91M, down 72% YoY, with FY2025 revenue not even reported here).

The balance sheet is broken: stockholders' equity is NEGATIVE $19.8M (a deficit the filing puts at $15.6M), retained earnings are -$123M, and management discloses ~$30M of negative working capital and explicit substantial-doubt going-concern language. Only $2.63M of cash sits on the XBRL balance sheet (down 62% YoY). Survival depends entirely on external capital — an Esousa ELOC with ~$6.6M/month drawdown capacity and a $20M PIPE (Series B preferred + 1.5x warrants) — i.e., the plan to stay alive IS relentless dilution. Shares already ballooned 690% YoY to 37.8M, and the warrant/preferred overhang guarantees more.

Is DFNS a buy? The one-page verdict, explained →

The options angle

model · matches our verdict
Bear put spread (caution)~90d expiry
  • Long put 0 @ ~0.00 est
  • Short put 0 @ ~0.00 est
debit $0max +$0max $0

AVOID means we wouldn't engage at all — if expressing the short side anyway, only with capped risk.

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Educational template, not a trade recommendation. Strikes and premiums are Black-Scholes model estimates from the last close and 30-day realized volatility — real chains, spreads and IV will differ. Options involve substantial risk.

Financials · annual, by fiscal year

Line itemFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
Revenue—$21.5M$21.3M$5.91M—
Gross profit—-$661K-$343K$999K—
Operating income-$671K-$11.1M-$17.5M-$7.11M-$32.6M
Net income-$599K-$11.8M-$17.4M-$8.52M$78.5M
Diluted EPS-$0.10-$1.21-$1.73-$4.93$7.96
Net margin—-55.1%-81.8%-144.1%—

10-year statements — income, cash flow, balance sheet & CSV export →

Annual figures from SEC 10-K XBRL filings. Open the filing links below for full statement detail.

Key statistics

Valuation

Enterprise value$15.8M
EV / EBITDA—
EV / Sales2.7
EV / FCF—
P / FCF—
PEG (trailing)0.00
Earnings yield521.3%
FCF yield-41.3%

Quality & risk

ROIC (est.)—
Free cash flow-$6.23M
Total debt$3.33M
Net cash-$699K
Altman Z-Score-1.33 distress
Piotroski F-Score4/8

Capital returns

Buyback yield—
Dividend yield (est.)—
Shareholder yield—
Shares Δ YoY+689.6%

Computed from SEC XBRL annual figures + the current quote. EV and ROIC use long-term + current debt where filed; estimates, not investment advice.

Disclosure timeline

SEC · 8-Ks + reports
Recent disclosure tone has skewed negative — read the flagged items.
  1. 8-K Shareholder vote2026-06-29

    Annual meeting vote results disclosed (Item 5.07); routine governance outcome

  2. S-1/A Securities registration2026-06-25

    Amended registration of resale shares — enlarges dilution overhang

  3. 8-K Other event2026-06-18

    Other-events disclosure (8.01) — likely business/PR update amid defense pivot

  4. 8-K Other event2026-06-15

    Other-events disclosure (8.01) — corporate/strategy update, no financials

  5. 8-K Officer / director change2026-06-11

    Officer/director change (5.02) amid transformation; leadership continuity risk

  6. S-1 Securities registration2026-06-04

    Registers more shares for resale — added dilution overhang for holders

  7. DEF 14A Proxy statement2026-05-27

    Proxy for annual meeting; routine governance/voting items

  8. 10-Q Quarterly report2026-05-20

    Q1 report: going-concern doubt persists, ongoing operating losses, thin cash

  9. NT 10-Q Late filing notice2026-05-15

    Late-filing notice for 10-Q — signals reporting/control strain

Recent filings

all on EDGAR ↗
424B3Filing2026-07-01open ↗EFFECTFiling2026-06-30open ↗8-KPeriod ending 2026-06-242026-06-29open ↗S-1/AFiling2026-06-25open ↗8-KPeriod ending 2026-06-182026-06-18open ↗DEFA14AFiling2026-06-17open ↗8-KPeriod ending 2026-06-152026-06-15open ↗3Period ending 2026-06-112026-06-11open ↗8-KPeriod ending 2026-06-112026-06-11open ↗S-1Filing2026-06-04open ↗DEFR14AFiling2026-06-01open ↗DEF 14APeriod ending 2026-06-182026-05-27open ↗

Quality score

C-
ValueGrowthProfitHealthMom.
ValueA-
GrowthC
ProfitabilityC
Financial healthF
MomentumF
  • ✗Revenue growing year-over-year
  • ✓Profitable (positive net income)
  • ✓Net margin above 10%
  • ✓Liabilities below 2× equity
  • ✓P/E below 25

Fair value est.

$302.48

Undervalued +190259% vs price

cheapfair valueexpensive

Modified Graham: EPS $7.96 × (8.5 + 1.5 × 22.0% growth) × 1.05 quality = 38.0× multiple. An estimate, not a price target.

0.1652-week13.22
Revenue
$5.91M
-72.2% YoY
Net margin
1328.3%
ROE
—
P/E
0.0

SEC fundamentals · FY 2025

'21'22'23'24'25

■ revenue · ■ net income, by fiscal year

Revenue$5.91M-72.2%
Net income$78.5M+1022.0%
Gross profit$999K+391.0%
Operating income-$32.6M-358.8%
Diluted EPS$7.96+261.5%
Cash & equivalents$2.63M-61.9%
Total assets$202M+2121.8%
Total liabilities$45.2M-73.8%
Stockholders' equity-$19.8M+87.9%
Gross: 16.9%Op.: -551.3%L/E: -2.28x

Frequently asked

Is T3 Defense Inc. (DFNS) a buy?
DFNS currently carries a Avoid rating with 5/5 conviction, derived from its latest SEC filings. Going-concern penny stock mid-pivot from fintech to defense with negative equity, an accounting-driven 'profit,' and a live dilution machine — uninvestable.
What is DFNS's fair value?
A Modified-Graham model based on DFNS's SEC fundamentals estimates a fair value of about $302.48. It is an estimate from reported earnings, not a price target.
Is DFNS overvalued or undervalued?
Against a Modified-Graham fair-value estimate, DFNS currently appears undervalued relative to its SEC-grounded earnings power.
What is T3 Defense Inc.'s quality score?
DFNS scores 51.004731546486575/100 (grade C-) on a SEC-grounded quality model spanning value, growth, profitability, financial health and momentum.

Sources: SEC EDGAR (CIK 0001787518, latest 10-Q filed 2026-05-20) · EODHD · Proprietary analysis · as of 7/4/2026, 5:12:29 AM.

›About this recommendation — produced by TENK/calls (tenkcalls.com), Luxembourg · not investment advice

AI-generated analysis, produced by our proprietary engine from SEC filing data.

Investment recommendation produced by TENK/calls (tenkcalls.com), Luxembourg. Completed Jul 4, 2026, 1:12 AM ET. Ratings & methodology: definitions · All recommendations to date: track record · Conflicts: disclosures. Not investment advice.

Research and education only — not financial advice. TENKis not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer and gives no personalized advice. Every call is impersonal — identical for all users, generated on a schedule from SEC filings plus a delayed/third-party price feed — may be wrong or out of date, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. The operator and an affiliated trading operation may hold or trade the securities TENK rates; see Disclosures. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do your own research.

Insider activity

Form 4 · SEC
2026-04-27
Shalom Menachem
Chief Executive Officer
Acquired (J)4.17M @ $0.51$2.14M
2026-04-27
Shalom Menachem
Chief Executive Officer
Acquired (J)67.0K
2026-01-29
Shalom Menachem
CEO
Acquired (X)200K @ $1.50$300K
2026-01-16
Shalom Menachem
CEO
Acquired (J)1.99M
2025-12-30
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell75.0K @ $4.03$302K
2025-12-29
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell75.0K @ $4.09$307K
2025-12-26
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell55.6K @ $4.26$237K
2025-12-24
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell55.6K @ $4.49$250K
2025-12-23
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell70.0K @ $4.57$320K
2025-12-22
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell30.0K @ $4.41$132K
2025-12-19
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell70.0K @ $4.53$317K
2025-12-18
Kotaieva Anastasiia
Insider
Sell38.7K @ $4.72$183K

Earnings history

beat/miss · move
2026-04-15—▲ +19.14%8-K ↗

Dates from 8-K (Item 2.02); beat/miss = reported EPS vs consensus (Finnhub, recent quarters); move = prior close → close on/after.

Vs tracked universe

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1195 tracked peers · median

TENK Score51 vs 67
Revenue growth-72.2% vs 7.5%
Net margin1328.3% vs 10.0%
Return on equity— vs 12.0%
P/E0.0 vs 26.2