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Imageware Systems Inc Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by MILLER S JAMES, was filed 19 Sept 2019.
Imageware Systems Inc: what insiders have been doing
Every trade that managers of Imageware Systems Inc disclose to SEC (Form 4) is tracked on this page. The company sits in the Technology sector. Imageware Systems Inc has had no insider filing for more than a year; the last one goes back to 24 March 2022.
Since 2006, the database holds 48 purchases and 65 sales by insiders of the company.
Other companies in the same sector with recent insider buying flagged by our signals: Lime Technologies AB (publ). This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Insider Decl.
167
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€1M
48 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€5M
65 ops. · all time
Since the insiders bought
- +22.4%Entry US$1.07 · Close at T+365 US$1.31
- -9.1%Entry US$1.21 · Close at T+365 US$1.10
- -9.1%Entry US$1.21 · Close at T+365 US$1.10
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Financial data
as of FY 2021FY ended December 2021 · cache
US$0.00
Analyst consensus
Income statement
RevenueUS$3.5M
Gross profitUS$2.8M81% margin
EBITDAUS$9.4M269% margin
Net incomeUS$9.3M236.3% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)0.0x
Beta-40.13
Balance sheet & cash
Total debtUS$1.8M
Free Cash Flow-US$7.8M
Profitability & ownership
ROA-72.2%
% institutions0.0%
Last declaration on 24 March 2022
Declarations167 total
3,473,361 shares@ US$0.015235.3% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001415889-22-003339:0
3,472,361 shares@ US$0.019544.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001415889-21-006223:0
2,675,000 shares0Common StockSEC:0001415889-21-005326:0
1,937,500 shares0Common StockSEC:0001415889-21-005325:0
2,675,000 shares0Common StockSEC:0001415889-21-005327:0
1,130,000 shares@ US$0.0373Common StockSEC:0001415889-21-004533:1
1,500,000 shares@ US$0.0316Common StockSEC:0001415889-21-004533:2
793,035 shares@ US$0.0416100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001415889-21-004533:0
160,000 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001415889-20-002167:0
30,000 shares@ US$0.49Common StockSEC:0001415889-19-001068:0
Canonical exit: 16 Dec 2019 (T+90)
60,000 shares0Common StockSEC:0001415889-19-000443:0
100,000 shares@ US$0.20Common StockSEC:0001415889-19-000103:0
50,000 shares@ US$0.20Common StockSEC:0001415889-19-000101:0
60,000 shares@ US$0.20Common StockSEC:0001415889-19-000102:0
5,000 shares@ US$0.20100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001415889-19-000057:0
5,000 shares@ US$0.20100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001415889-19-000026:0
5,000 shares@ US$0.20100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001415889-18-001753:0
105,000 shares@ US$1.43Common StockSEC:0001415889-18-000856:0
15,000 shares0Common StockSEC:0001415889-17-001931:0
100 shares@ US$1.08Common StockSEC:0001415889-15-004051:0
Canonical exit: 13 Mar 2016 (T+90)
4,900 shares@ US$1.08Common StockSEC:0001415889-15-004051:1
Canonical exit: 13 Mar 2016 (T+90)
50,000 shares@ US$0.90Common StockSEC:0001415889-15-003929:0
Canonical exit: 22 Feb 2016 (T+90)
200,000 shares@ US$1.13Common StockSEC:0001415889-15-003926:0
Canonical exit: 22 Feb 2016 (T+90)
1,200 shares@ US$1.53Common StockSEC:0001415889-15-003225:0
Canonical exit: 27 Dec 2015 (T+90)
13,800 shares@ US$1.52Common StockSEC:0001415889-15-003209:0
Canonical exit: 27 Dec 2015 (T+90)
25 of 167 declarations
About Imageware Systems Inc
ImageWare Systems, Inc. (ticker: IWSY) is a U.S. technology company focused on biometric identity and authentication software. The company is based in San Diego, California, in the United States, and is incorporated in Delaware. Based on the sources reviewed, its shares are quoted on the OTCQB marketplace rather than on the NYSE or NASDAQ. For French-speaking investors evaluating the name, this places ImageWare in the small-cap, niche-software category, with a business model that is highly dependent on commercial execution and contract timing. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/941685/000165495420007527/iwsy_424b.htm?utm_source=openai))
ImageWare’s core business is to identify, verify, and authenticate individuals using biometric characteristics rather than passwords, badges, or codes. Its flagship offering is the Imageware Identity Platform, built around three main functional areas: Enroll & Identify, Badge & Credential, and Authenticate. The platform is layered on top of the patented Biometric Engine, a proprietary multimodal, vendor-agnostic biometric database and matching engine. The company also describes solutions for law enforcement, federal agencies, state and local government customers, and enterprise use cases such as secure access control and credential issuance. In practical terms, the product set is aimed at digital identity, biometric enrollment, matching, and authentication workflows. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/941685/000143774922008996/iwsy20211231_10k.htm?utm_source=openai))
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From a historical perspective, ImageWare dates back to February 1987 and has positioned itself as an early pioneer in software-based biometric identity management. The company states that it holds dozens of patents and emphasizes its long experience in multimodal biometrics. That history gives it technical credibility in a specialized segment, but its competitive position is still that of a focused niche provider rather than a scaled industry leader. It competes indirectly with larger cybersecurity, identity management, and biometric vendors that typically have broader customer bases, deeper balance sheets, and greater go-to-market resources. ImageWare’s differentiator is its modular architecture, software-centric design, and experience serving regulated customers, especially public-sector buyers. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/941685/000143774922008996/iwsy20211231_10k.htm?utm_source=openai))
Geographically, the business is primarily centered in the United States, with its principal office in California and a historical emphasis on U.S. government and institutional customers. The SEC filings also indicate an ongoing focus on enterprise and consumer applications and on expanding SaaS capabilities for existing products. Recent material visible in SEC filings is more strategic than transformative: management continues to highlight product development, intellectual property expansion, and SaaS enablement. At the same time, the filings underscore a long-standing risk profile, including operating losses since inception and dependence on a relatively small number of large system sales. For investors, IWSY should therefore be viewed as a speculative technology microcap with optionality around biometric identity software, but without the consistency typically associated with mature listed software peers. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/941685/000143774922008996/iwsy20211231_10k.htm?utm_source=openai))
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