CreditRiskMonitor Announces First Quarter Results
VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. - May 12, 2023 - CreditRiskMonitor (OTCQX:CRMZ) reported operating revenues of $4.6 million, an increase of approximately $253 thousand or 6%, for the three months ended March 31, 2023, as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2022. The Company reported that pre-tax income of approximately $355 thousand, an increase of approximately $159 thousand, as compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2022. The increase in pre-tax income was primarily driven by slower growth rates in selling, general, and administrative expenses relative to operating revenue and an increase in interest earned from our cash balance.
Mike Flum, CEO & President, said, “In Q1 2023, our performance reflects increased recessionary concern in the economy among B2B risk professionals. Corporate bankruptcies have surged as compared to the record lows of the past two years, highlighting that the most effective strategy for focusing corporate risk teams on alternative solutions is experiencing bankruptcy. More prospect and client conversations are centered around the recent failures of some of our competitors’ credit risk models to identify a counterparty’s financial distress before a bankruptcy filing. Many of these models are driven by sparse and stale payment data mixed with generalized firmographic data. Using such error-prone models creates a false sense of security around counterparty creditworthiness only to be exposed in periods of high volatility.
At CreditRiskMonitor, we consider the pursuit of model coverage above long-term predictive accuracy as a dangerous proposition for our subscribers. We use a Hippocratic philosophy when it comes to our FRISK® and PAYCE® analytics so we will only produce scores on businesses with enough robust and entity-specific data to stand behind our predictions for the full business cycle. The current economic conditions show why the standard operating playbook for financial risk mitigation established during the low-volatility zero interest rate policy period cannot persist without significant pain.
Our roadmap for 2023 includes updating the FRISK® model, incorporating a third-party ESG data add-on, augmenting our business records with certification data, and introducing our new confidential financial statement engine that automatically standardizes, spreads, and scores uploaded financial statements for our clients. We continue leveraging AI developments such as Large Language Models and new technologies to improve our efficiency as we remain committed to reinvesting through product development, data acquisition, and expanded capacity to deliver subscription services whose value exceeds their cost.”
A full copy of the financial statements can be found at https://crmz.ir.edgar-online.com/
Overview
CreditRiskMonitor (creditriskmonitor.com) sells a suite of web-based, SaaS subscription products providing access to comprehensive commercial credit reports, bankruptcy risk analytics, financial and payment information, and curated news on public and private companies worldwide. The products help corporate credit and procurement professionals stay ahead of and manage financial risk more quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively.
The Company’s newest platform, SupplyChainMonitor™, leverages its financial risk analytics expertise to create a risk management solution built specifically for procurement, supply chain, sourcing, and finance personnel involved in the supplier lifecycle, risk assessment, and ongoing risk monitoring. Users can assess counterparty risks at the aggregate and granular levels under a variety of categories including geography and industry, as well as customized, customer-specific configurations. The platform features mapping capabilities with real-time weather/natural disaster event overlays as well as customizable news notifications, reports, and charts.
Our subscribers, including nearly 40% of the Fortune 1000 and well over a thousand other large corporations worldwide, use the Company's timely news alerts, research, and reports on public and private companies to make important risk decisions. The Company's comprehensive commercial credit reports covering both public and private companies worldwide are published through its web-based platform and feature detailed analyses of financial statements, including ratio analysis and trend reports, peer analysis, corporate issuer ratings from key Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations ("NRSROs"), as well as the Company's proprietary bankruptcy analytics: the FRISK® and PAYCE® scores. One of the FRISK® scoring model's exclusive input features is the aggregate risk sentiment of our subscribers based on their crowdsourced usage behaviors resulting in the improved classification of bankruptcy risk for the riskiest corporations and boosting overall accuracy.
The Company, through its Trade Contributor Program, receives confidential accounts receivables data from hundreds of subscribers and non-subscribers every month. This trade receivable data is parsed, processed, aggregated, and finally reported to summarize the invoice payment behavior of B2B counterparties, without disclosing the specific contributors of this information. The Trade Contributor Program's current trade credit file exceeds $2.5 trillion of transaction data annually.
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CONTACT:
CreditRiskMonitor.com, Inc.
Mike Flum, CEO & President
845.230.3037
ir@creditriskmonitor.com