Cyanotech Corp (CYAN) Operating Expenses (2010 - 2025)
Cyanotech (CYAN) reported Operating Expenses of $2.2 million for fiscal Q2 2026 (quarter ended Sep 30, 2025), down 10.2% from $2.45 million a year earlier and down 12.8% from the prior quarter.
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Cyanotech Corp (CYAN) Operating Expenses (2010 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
Over the twelve months ended Sep 30, 2025, Cyanotech's Operating Expenses came in at $9.14 million, down 9.0% year-over-year; for FY2025 (ended Mar 31, 2025), it came in at $9.38 million, down 10.9% from FY2024.
- Operating Expenses has a five-year compound annual growth rate of -4.2% (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By fiscal year, Operating Expenses came in at $10.54 million in FY2024 (+3.5%), $10.18 million in FY2023 (-7.4%), $10.99 million in FY2022 (-0.4%) and $11.03 million in FY2021 (-5.3%).
- Five-year quarterly Operating Expenses spans a low of $2.17 million in fiscal Q3 2023 and a high of $3.05 million in fiscal Q1 2022.
- Year over year, Operating Expenses gained in two of the last eight quarters, with an average decline of 5.1%.
- The high point for year-over-year Operating Expenses in five years was fiscal Q3 2024 (growth of 15.2%); the low point was fiscal Q3 2023 (a decline of 20.6%).
- Per Business Quant data, the three fiscal quarters before Q2 2026 came in at $2.53 million (Q1 2026), $2.18 million (Q4 2025) and $2.23 million (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
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| Sep 30, 2025 | 2.20 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 2.53 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 2.18 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 2.23 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 2.45 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 2.52 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 2.58 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 2.50 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 2.72 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 2.74 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 2.64 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 2.17 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 2.63 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 2.74 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 2.53 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 2.73 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 2.68 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 3.05 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 2.80 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 2.51 Mn |
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Cyanotech Corp Operating Expenses API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-expenses&ticker=CYAN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-expenses", "ticker": "CYAN", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-expenses&ticker=CYAN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();