Eastman Kodak screens as attractively valued with a strong Piotroski F-Score of 8/9, but quality sits below the engine's floor amid value-trap signals of high leverage and negative free cash flow, the momentum gate failed, and the stock is classified speculative after a 43% drawdown from its 52-week high.
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- Quality Below Floor Value Trap→Stable
- Attractive Headline Valuation→Stable
- Failed Momentum Gate→Stable
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Eastman Kodak Company (KODK) Stock Analysis
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Industrials · Specialty Business Services
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $8.14: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.4/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend.
Eastman Kodak is a global manufacturer of commercial print equipment and consumables, advanced materials and specialty chemicals, organized into Print, Advanced Materials and Chemicals, and Brand segments. Prepress Solutions, which sells aluminum offset printing plates on a... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $8.14: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.4/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.4/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/8 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum. Suitability: speculative.
About Eastman Kodak Company
About Eastman Kodak Company
Eastman Kodak's Print segment — anchored by its Prepress Solutions business selling aluminum offset printing plates and CTP imaging equipment — generated 52% of the company's total net revenue in 2025, continuing a decline from 56% in 2023 as volumes and competitive pricing pressure weighed on the business. The Advanced Materials and Chemicals segment's Industrial Film and Chemicals line grew to 23% of revenue, up from 18% in 2023, while Kodak employed approximately 3,500 people across 27 countries.
Kodak's recurring-revenue model in Prepress rests on consumable plate sales — since offset printing requires a new plate for every run, printers under roughly two-year contracts buy replacement plates continuously, with KODAK SONORA Process-Free Plates removing the traditional chemical processing step. The Advanced Materials and Chemicals segment sells specialty chemicals, motion picture film and licensed analytical services, with Kodak Alaris — a spun-off photographic film and chemicals customer — representing about 33% of that segment's revenue in both 2025 and 2024. Kodak also licenses its namesake brand for cameras, eyewear, batteries and apparel through a separate Brand segment that generates royalty and upfront-payment revenue without Kodak manufacturing the underlying products. Lithographic aluminum, procured from several suppliers at prevailing market prices, is the primary raw material, while certain electronic components and specialty chemicals are sourced from single or limited suppliers.
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Beyond Kodak Alaris's roughly one-third share of Advanced Materials and Chemicals revenue, Kodak's 10-K discloses that certain key electronic components and specialty chemicals used in its finished goods are obtained from single or limited sources, exposing the company to supply risk independent of its aluminum plate business. Kodak's aging manufacturing base compounds that exposure: the filing warns that its facilities and equipment are aged and, without extensive and timely upgrades, are increasingly prone to failures that could disrupt operations tied to both its Prepress and specialty chemicals lines.
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From Eastman Kodak Company's most recent 10-K filing, extracted July 6, 2026.
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updated 2026-07-08Recent Developments — Eastman Kodak Company
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- NEWS Eastman Kodak Files Prospectus For Offering 4.426M Common Shares On Behalf Of Selling Shareholders — benzinga Jul 1, 2026 neutral
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHProductPrepress Solutions52%10-K Item 1: 'Net sales for the Prepress Solutions business accounted for 52%, 54% and 56% of Kodak's total net revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.'
- MEDIUMCustomerKodak Alaris33%10-K Item 1: 'Kodak Alaris, a professional and consumer still photographic film and chemicals customer, represented approximately 33% of total Advanced Materials and Chemicals segment revenues'
- HIGHSuppliersingle or limited source suppliers10-K Item 1: 'are obtained from single or limited sources, which subjects Kodak to supply risks.'
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2 floor-breakers·1 ceiling hit
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
Unprofitable operations — net margin -12.6%. Quality floor flags this regardless of sector context.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $8.14: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.4/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $7.72. Score 5.4/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $9.96 (+22.4% upside). Prior stop was $7.72. Stop-loss: $7.72.
Concentration risk — Product: Prepress Solutions (52.0%); Concentration risk — Supplier: single or limited source suppliers; Quality below floor (3.0 < 4.0).
Eastman Kodak Company trades at a P/E of N/A (forward N/A). TrendMatrix value score: 9.4/10. Verdict: Sell.
What does Eastman Kodak Company do?Eastman Kodak is a global manufacturer of commercial print equipment and consumables, advanced materials and specialty...
Eastman Kodak is a global manufacturer of commercial print equipment and consumables, advanced materials and specialty chemicals, organized into Print, Advanced Materials and Chemicals, and Brand segments. Prepress Solutions, which sells aluminum offset printing plates on a recurring-revenue model, generated 52% of total net revenue in 2025, while Kodak Alaris, a photographic film and chemicals customer, represented approximately 33% of Advanced Materials and Chemicals segment revenue.