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Daily Journal Corp Stock: price and insider trades · United States
Daily Journal Corp: what insiders have been doing
Headquartered in Los Angeles, United States, Daily Journal Corp belongs to the Media & Communication sector and traces its origins to 1986. Filings by its managers are published through SEC (Form 4). 3 insiders have disclosed 3 filings since 18 October 2025.
None of the filings is a plain purchase or sale on the open market; they cover grants, option exercises and other movements. Compensation-driven entries like these are tracked, but they say little about how insiders judge the share price.
With 3 filings in twelve months, the company is quieter than the median of 19 filings across the 5,812 companies we follow on the same exchange.
Over the last twelve months, not one insider purchase of Daily Journal Corp stock was filed. Filings reach the SEC (Form 4) feed a median of 1 day after the trade. For comparison, the SEC allows two business days to file a Form 4.
Other companies in the same sector with recent insider buying flagged by our signals: Globalstar, Inc. and Liberty Latin America Ltd. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
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Fundamental score
Ranked 5,547 of 24,158 companies
65.2
score / 100
Value75
Quality56
FCF yld1.5%
Earn yld13%
EV/EBITDA6.0x
ROE-3.3%
Gross mgn37%
Net mgn·
Debt/EBITDA0.2x
Pillars2/3
Transparent value + quality ranking, distinct from the insider signal.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended September 2025 · cache
US$642.18
Analyst consensus
Income statement
RevenueUS$87.7M
Gross profitUS$32.1M37% margin
EBITDAUS$151.7M173% margin
Net incomeUS$112.1M-11.6% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)58.0x
P/Book2.6x
Beta0.83
Balance sheet & cash
Market capUS$884.9M
Total debtUS$23M
Free Cash FlowUS$13.3M
Debt / Equity6%
Profitability & ownership
ROE-3.3%
ROA2.1%
% insiders4.4%
% institutions79.0%
Last declaration on 8 January 2026
Declarations6 total
21 shares0Common StockSEC:0001437749-26-000930:0
50 shares0Common StockSEC:0001437749-25-038178:0
50 shares0Common StockSEC:0001437749-25-038179:0
21 shares0Common StockSEC:0001437749-25-030488:0
21 shares0Common StockSEC:0001437749-25-030487:0
3,720 shares0Common StockSEC:0001209191-22-037721:0
6 of 6 declarations
About Daily Journal Corp
Daily Journal Corp. (ticker: DJCO) is a U.S.-listed company traded on the NASDAQ market in the United States. The company combines a legacy publishing business with a specialized legal- and public-sector software platform. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, at 915 East First Street. Its historical roots go back to its flagship newspapers, the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily Journal, which were established in 1888 and 1893, respectively. ([ir.dailyjournal.com](https://ir.dailyjournal.com/?utm_source=openai))
Today, Daily Journal operates through two main segments. The first is the Traditional Business, which includes ten general-circulation newspapers and related online publications, with a strong emphasis on legal news and public-notice advertising. This segment serves a specialized readership made up largely of lawyers, judges, law firms, businesses, and institutions that need targeted legal information and mandatory notice publication. The second and increasingly important pillar is Journal Technologies, a software division that provides case-management systems, e-filing tools, and related digital services to courts, government agencies, and other public institutions. That software business has become the company’s primary growth engine. ([ir.dailyjournal.com](https://ir.dailyjournal.com/hubfs/djco/governance/DJCO_ANNL2024.pdf?hsLang=en))
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From a competitive standpoint, Daily Journal occupies a niche position rather than competing as a broad-based media or software platform. In publishing, its strength comes from a defensible professional audience and the structural importance of legal notices. In software, it benefits from demand for judicial modernization, workflow digitization, and recurring maintenance and support revenue. This makes the company unusual: it is part content publisher, part vertical software provider, with exposure concentrated in legal and public-administration end markets. ([ir.dailyjournal.com](https://ir.dailyjournal.com/hubfs/djco/governance/DJCO_ANNL2024.pdf?hsLang=en))
Recent developments reinforce that shift. For fiscal year 2025, Daily Journal reported consolidated revenue of $87.7 million, up 25% year over year, with growth driven primarily by Journal Technologies. The company then reported first-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $19.5 million, up 10% year over year, including Journal Technologies revenue of $15.2 million, up 12%. Management said growth was supported by higher e-filing and other public-service fees as well as recurring license and maintenance revenue, while the company continued investing in implementation capacity and modernization. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783412/000143774925038840/ex_902817.htm?utm_source=openai))
For investors, DJCO is a distinctive NASDAQ-listed small-cap name in the United States: a legacy media franchise with a growing software component, limited geographic reach outside California and Arizona for the publishing arm, and an increasingly software-led revenue mix. The stock remains noteworthy because its economics are shaped less by mass-market media exposure and more by specialized legal-information and public-sector workflow demand. ([ir.dailyjournal.com](https://ir.dailyjournal.com/hubfs/djco/governance/DJCO_ANNL2024.pdf?hsLang=en))
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