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Processa Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Next earnings Aug 5, 2026 · consensus $-1.02 EPS

Avoid
$2.16
▲ +11.34%
$2.16▼ -55.92%
over 1Y
L $1.85H $11.98
Earnings Dividend Split Congress buy Congress sellGrouped by date · hover a pin to expand
Today+11.3%
1W+14.3%
1M-26.0%
3M-22.0%
YTD-26.3%
1Y-55.9%
OverviewFinancialsValuationQualityTimelineFilings
Rating
Avoid
Quality
F
Valuation
Fair value
Filings
Flagged
Avoid
Conviction
Horizon
Long (>12mo)
Street · 7 analysts
Buy

Pre-revenue cancer-drug developer with explicit going-concern doubt and under a year of cash — an unknowable binary, not investable.

Cash & equivalents $5.54M · FY2025

Processa is a clinical-stage biopharma with zero product revenue in any year on record (FY2021–FY2025) and a $101M accumulated deficit. Every dollar of value rests on unapproved pipeline candidates — NGC-Cap (PCS6422/capecitabine) and NGC-Iri (PCS11T), plus earlier-stage PCS12852 and PCS499 — none of which has demonstrated efficacy sufficient for FDA approval. Management itself states its financials 'contain a statement regarding a substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern,' and the risk factors lead with the need to 'raise additional capital to complete the development efforts for NGC-Cap and/or NGC-Iri.' This is the textbook profile of a company whose equity is a lottery ticket on clinical readouts, not an investable business.

The balance sheet makes the timing acute. FY2025 cash of $5.54M against operating cash burn of $11.4M implies roughly six months of runway — the company must raise, and it has already filed a $50M S-3 shelf and an active ATM sales agreement to do so. With only 2.66M shares outstanding after a share count that fell 49.5% YoY (a reverse split), the diluted loss is $10.36 per share and ROE is -243%. Dilution from the ATM is not a risk, it is the stated funding mechanism, and it will fall on existing holders at whatever price the market offers.

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

The options angle

model · matches our verdict
Bear put spread (caution)~90d expiry
  • Long put 2 @ ~0.37 est
  • Short put 2 @ ~0.37 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$0.00$0.00———
Gross profit—————
Operating income-$12.1M-$27.5M-$11.5M-$12.1M-$14.0M
Net income-$11.4M-$27.4M-$11.1M-$11.9M-$13.6M
Diluted EPS—-$34.05-$8.48-$96.78-$10.36
Net margin—————

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$672K
EV / EBITDA—
EV / Sales—
EV / FCF—
P / FCF—
PEG (trailing)—
Earnings yield-226.9%
FCF yield-190.5%

Quality & risk

ROIC (est.)-190.3%
Free cash flow-$11.4M
Total debt$230K
Net cash$5.31M
Altman Z-Score-21.83 distress
Piotroski F-Score4/7

Capital returns

Buyback yield—
Dividend yield (est.)0.7%
Shareholder yield0.7%
Shares Δ YoY-49.5%

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. DEF 14A Proxy statement2026-06-18

    Annual proxy: board elections, auditor, likely share-authorization increase

  2. 10-Q Quarterly report2026-05-07

    Q1'26: ongoing net losses, going-concern doubt, ~$5M cash — tight runway

  3. 8-K Officer / director change2026-04-30

    10-K/A amendment (Part III/exec comp) — no restatement of financials

  4. 10-K/A Restated periodic report2026-04-30

    10-K/A amendment (Part III/exec comp) — no restatement of financials

  5. 10-K Annual report2026-03-18

    FY25: -$13.6M loss, going-concern doubt; NGC-Cap/NGC-Iri in Phase 2

  6. 8-K Agreement terminated2026-02-19

    Terminated a material agreement — possible loss of a license/collaboration

  7. 8-K Other event2026-01-07

    Other-events update (Item 8.01) — corporate/clinical disclosure

  8. 8-K Material event2025-12-15

    Charter amendment to shareholder rights — likely reverse split for listing

  9. 10-Q Quarterly report2025-11-06

    Q3'25: continued operating losses; needs capital to fund NGC programs

Recent filings

all on EDGAR ↗
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Quality score

F
ValueGrowthProfitHealthMom.
Value—
GrowthF
ProfitabilityF
Financial healthB-
MomentumF
  • ✗Profitable (positive net income)
  • ✗Return on equity above 15%
  • ✓Liabilities below 2× equity
1.8552-week11.97
Revenue
$0.00
Net margin
—
ROE
-243.2%
P/E
—

SEC fundamentals · FY 2025

■ revenue · ■ net income, by fiscal year

Revenue$0.00
Net income-$13.6M-14.5%
Gross profit$5.00K+140.2%
Operating income-$14.0M-16.1%
Diluted EPS-$10.36+89.3%
Cash & equivalents$5.54M+364.8%
Total assets$7.81M+142.0%
Total liabilities$2.24M+45.9%
Stockholders' equity$5.58M+228.8%
L/E: 0.40x

Frequently asked

Is Processa Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PCSA) a buy?
PCSA currently carries a Avoid rating with 5/5 conviction, derived from its latest SEC filings. Pre-revenue cancer-drug developer with explicit going-concern doubt and under a year of cash — an unknowable binary, not investable.
What is Processa Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s quality score?
PCSA scores 35.09064051164566/100 (grade F) on a SEC-grounded quality model spanning value, growth, profitability, financial health and momentum.

Sources: SEC EDGAR (CIK 0001533743, latest 10-Q filed 2026-05-07) · EODHD · Proprietary analysis · as of 7/4/2026, 9:53:53 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, 5:53 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

Last 90 days: 5 open-market buys · 0 sales

2026-07-01
Ng George K
Chief Executive Officer
Buy3.06K @ $1.93$5.90K
2026-06-30
Guy Wendy
Chief Administrative Officer
Buy2.44K @ $1.93$4.70K
2026-06-30
Lin Patrick
Chief Business - Strategy Off
Buy2.11K @ $1.93$4.06K
2026-06-30
SKIBSTED RUSSELL
Chief Financial Officer
Buy3.28K @ $1.93$6.32K
2026-06-30
Young David
Pres. Research & Development
Buy2.53K @ $1.93$4.88K
2026-06-26
Yorke Justin W
Director
Exercise203.00
2026-06-26
Pannu Geraldine
Director
Exercise203.00
2026-06-26
Neal James R
Director
Exercise203.00

Earnings history

beat/miss · move
2023-03-31—▼ -2.08%8-K ↗
2022-11-08—▲ +0.46%8-K ↗
2022-08-12—▼ -3.25%8-K ↗
2021-08-13—▼ -9.74%8-K ↗
2021-05-13——8-K ↗
2021-03-25——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 Score35 vs 67
Revenue growth— vs 7.5%
Net margin— vs 10.0%
Return on equity-243.2% vs 12.0%
P/E— vs 26.2