CreditRiskMonitor Announces Preliminary Results for 2021 and $1 Million Share Repurchase Program

VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. – Feb. 1, 2022 – CreditRiskMonitor (OTCQX:CRMZ) announced preliminary results of operation for twelve months ended Dec. 31, 2021. Revenue grew to approximately $17 million and Operating Income grew to approximately $2 million plus. These figures are subject to change under the final audit process.

Additionally, the Company’s Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program for the repurchase of up to $1 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock.

Mike Flum, President and COO, said, “With a strong balance sheet and cash flow performance for 2021, we are well-positioned to invest in CreditRiskMonitor’s common stock, consistent with our commitment to creating value for our shareholders, subject to the applicable rules and regulations.”

The shares may be purchased from time to time in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. Such purchases will be at times and in amounts as the Company deems appropriate based on factors such as market conditions, legal requirements, and other business considerations. The share repurchase authorization does not obligate the company to acquire any particular amount of common stock and may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time or from time to time at the company’s discretion.

Overview

CreditRiskMonitor.com, Inc. (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. Our primary SaaS subscription products for analyzing commercial financial risk are CreditRiskMonitor® and SupplyChainMonitor™. These products help corporate credit and procurement professionals stay ahead of and manage financial risk more quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively. Our subscribers include nearly 40% of the Fortune 1000 and well over a thousand other large corporations worldwide.

To help subscribers prioritize and monitor counterparty financial risk, our SaaS platforms offer the proprietary FRISK® and PAYCE® Scores as well as the FAST Rating, the well-known Altman Z”-Score, agency ratings from key Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (“NRSROs”), curated news, and detailed financial spreads & ratios. Our FRISK® and PAYCE® Scores are financial distress classification models that measure a business’s probability of bankruptcy within a year. The FRISK® score also includes a risk signal based on the aggregate research behaviors of our subscribers, who control counterparty access to trade credit at some of the most sophisticated companies in the world. The inclusion of this risk signal boosts the overall accuracy of this bankruptcy analytic by lowering the false positive rate for the riskiest corporations.

Through its Trade Contributor Program, the Company receives monthly confidential accounts receivables data from hundreds of subscribers and non-subscribers, which it parses, processes, aggregates, and reports to summarize the invoice payment behavior of B2B counterparties without disclosing the specific contributors of this information. The size of the Trade Contributor Program’s current annualized trade credit transaction data is approximately $3 trillion.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release, including statements prefaced by the words “anticipates”, “estimates”, “believes”, “expects” or words of similar meaning, constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include details of the accounting restatement, the expected impact of the accounting restatement and the remediation of the related material weakness in internal control over financial reporting. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, expectations or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, those risks, uncertainties and factors referenced from time to time as “risk factors” or otherwise in the Company’s Registration Statements or Securities and Exchange Commission Reports. There can be no assurance that (i) the consequences of the Company’s restated results will be as anticipated above and (ii) the Company will be able to promptly and efficiently implement the appropriate remediation steps into its financial reporting. We disclaim any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, a future event, or otherwise.

Contact

CreditRiskMonitor.com, Inc.
Mike Flum, Chief Executive Officer
(845) 230-3037
ir@creditriskmonitor.com