CUSI is a small packaged-foods company trading on the OTC Pink Sheets at $19.85, up just over 1% on the week. The story here is less about any active market narrative and more about a thinly traded micro-cap where virtually all available data is significantly outdated.
The short interest picture carries no current signal. The most recent ORTEX short estimate dates to September 2021 — nearly five years ago — and showed a negligible two shares short. That figure is so small as to be irrelevant. No float percentage is calculable, and all lending market data, including cost to borrow and availability, is similarly stale, last recorded in mid-2021 and mid-2020 respectively. With a market cap of roughly $463 million, CUSI sits at the upper end of the small-cap range, but the absence of active short data suggests there is effectively no meaningful short positioning to speak of.
What current data does exist paints a dormant picture. The ORTEX short score last registered 25.4 in September 2021 — a low reading that implies minimal short-selling conviction even at the time of recording. Availability was effectively unconstrained at that point. There is no evidence of any squeeze dynamics, borrow tightness, or elevated cost to borrow in the current period.
Analyst coverage, valuation multiples, and factor scores are all similarly outdated — some dating as far back as 2013 — and cannot be cited as current market guidance. The most recent dividend on record was a $2.00 cash dividend announced in May 2022, with a prior $0.30 distribution in early 2019, suggesting infrequent but not negligible capital returns to shareholders. Insider trade data is last recorded from late 2008, with the CEO at the time making small open-market purchases at prices well below today's level. None of this constitutes current actionable positioning information.
For CUSI, the most important thing to watch is whether the company begins generating updated disclosures — earnings filings, insider transactions, or analyst initiation — that would allow a fuller picture of where the business stands heading into the second half of 2026.
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