Insiders Trades
Kartoon Studios, Inc. Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest was filed 13 Jun 2025.
Kartoon Studios, Inc.: what insiders have been doing
Kartoon Studios, Inc., classified in the Media & Communication sector, is a listed company. Its insiders report their share dealings to SEC (Form 4). From 18 October 2025 to 18 October 2026, the disclosure feed for Kartoon Studios, Inc. logged 29 filings by 9 insiders.
No open-market purchase or sale appears among the filings, only grants, plan transactions and other operations. Compensation-driven entries like these are tracked, but they say little about how insiders judge the share price.
No insider has bought Kartoon Studios, Inc. shares on the open market in the past twelve months. Typically, a trade is published a median of 3 days after it takes place. The legal deadline for a Form 4 is two business days after the transaction.
Compared with its exchange (5,458 companies, median 22 filings), a count of 29 filings is above the norm. Our records for Kartoon Studios, Inc. go back to 2021, with 6 purchases and 2 sales on the open market in total. The 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 shows 39.4 m USD of revenue and -24.5 m USD of net income.
Other companies in the same sector with recent insider buying flagged by our signals: Globalstar, Inc. and Liberty Latin America Ltd. Every figure here comes from the filings published by SEC (Form 4) and describes the past, not future prices; it is not investment advice.
Insider Decl.
133
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€21,641
6 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€437,453
2 ops. · all time
Who traded when
BuySaleMichael Jaffa2 buys
Andy Heyward1 buy
Brian Parisi1 buy
Gray Davis1 buy
Since the insiders bought
- +53.9%Entry US$0.76 · Close at T+365 US$1.17
- -7.7%Entry US$0.78 · Close at T+365 US$0.72
- -12.6%Entry US$0.82 · Close at T+365 US$0.72
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.
Fundamental score
Ranked 21,023 of 24,148 companies
25.1
score / 100
Value5
Quality46
FCF yld-34%
Earn yld-72%
EV/EBITDA·
ROE21%
Gross mgn32%
Net mgn-62%
Debt/EBITDA·
Pillars2/3
Transparent value + quality ranking, distinct from the insider signal.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended December 2025 · cache
US$0.55
Analyst consensus
Income statement
RevenueUS$39.4M
Gross profitUS$12.5M32% margin
EBITDA-US$19.6M-50% margin
Net income-US$24.5M26.9% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)6.8x
P/Book0.6x
Beta2.06
Balance sheet & cash
Market capUS$33.9M
Total debtUS$17.7M
Free Cash Flow-US$11.6M
Debt / Equity35%
Profitability & ownership
ROE20.9%
ROA-9.1%
% insiders4.6%
% institutions31.9%
Last declaration on 21 September 2026
Declarations133 total
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About Kartoon Studios, Inc.
Kartoon Studios, Inc. (NYSE American: TOON) is a United States-based kids and family media company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Its business model is built around an integrated content value chain: developing original intellectual property, producing animation, distributing content, operating streaming services, and monetizing franchises through licensing. For francophone investors looking at the US-listed media space, the company stands out because it owns and controls a meaningful library of children’s animation and tries to extract value across multiple channels rather than relying on a single distribution outlet.
The company’s roots are tied to Andy Heyward, an experienced animation executive who has led and built several entertainment businesses over decades. Kartoon Studios has evolved through a combination of organic development and acquisitions, creating a broader content platform than a typical small-cap media company. According to company disclosures, it owns or controls more than 3,800 episodes of animated programming, which provides a sizeable asset base for licensing, streaming, and catalog monetization.
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Kartoon Studios’ operations are organized around several core lines. The production side is anchored by Mainframe Studios, operated through Wow Unlimited Media, which functions as a major animation services studio. Management describes Mainframe as one of the larger animation production studios globally, with a history of more than 1,200 television episodes, 70 movies, and 3 feature films produced for leading global media companies. This service-production capability gives the group a more diversified revenue profile than a pure IP-owner, while also exposing it to project timing and customer concentration risk.
On the distribution side, Kartoon Studios runs branded streaming and digital channels such as Kartoon Channel! and Ameba TV. These properties are available across a wide range of AVOD, SVOD, FAST, and device ecosystems, including Amazon, Roku, Pluto TV, Tubi, YouTube, and smart-TV platforms. The company also operates Channel Frederator Network, a large animation-focused creator network on YouTube. Geographically, the business is mainly North American, with principal offices in Beverly Hills and additional offices in Toronto and Vancouver, but its distribution footprint is international; Kartoon Channel! Worldwide has been expanded across more than 61 territories in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Competitive positioning is mixed. On one hand, the company benefits from a vertically integrated model and a family-friendly brand identity, which can support long-term franchise building. On the other hand, it remains a small player relative to major global studios and streaming platforms, so execution, capital access, and content success are critical.
Recent developments have been active. In its 2025 annual reporting, Kartoon Studios disclosed net revenues of $39.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, up from $32.6 million in 2024, while still posting a net loss and a going-concern caution. The company also completed a $7.3 million financing in October 2025 and announced fresh franchise initiatives, including “Hundred Acre Wood’s Winnie and Friends” and partnerships around Stan Lee-related consumer products. These updates reinforce a strategy centered on franchise development, monetization expansion, and operational scaling on the NYSE American market in the United States.
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