Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (NASDAQ:CSQ)
Insiders here have filed 1 Form 4 in the last 90 days, but all of them are share awards, grants or other non-market transactions. Those are compensation, not a decision to buy, so they are not scored.
Keeps a healthy share of every dollar it sells.
- Revenue
- $751.9M
- Net income
- $1.34B
- Net margin
- 178.2%
Little or no net debt.
- Total debt
- $1.41B
- Cash
- $147.2M
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.86x
Current assets or liabilities not reported.
- Current assets
- $158.9M
- Current liabilities
- $0
- Current ratio
- —
Roughly cash-neutral.
- Operating cash flow
- -$27.0M
- Free cash flow
- -$27.0M
- FCF margin
- -3.6%
Not funding itself by issuing shares.
- Shares outstanding
- 160.4M
- Share growth (1y)
- 0.0%
- Cash runway
- 65 months
Five pillars — profitability, leverage, liquidity, cash generation, dilution & runway — each scored 0–20 from the company’s own income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, then scaled to 100. A pillar the statements cannot answer is left out rather than guessed; fewer than three and no score is shown.
CSQ Income Statement
| Fiscal Period | Q2 2026 | Q4 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q4 2024 | Q2 2024 | Q4 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Ending | Apr 30, 2026 | Oct 31, 2025 | Apr 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2024 | Apr 30, 2024 | Oct 31, 2023 |
| Revenue | 131.01 M | 274.31 M | 72.83 M | 273.76 M | 12.40 M | 202.97 M |
| Revenue Growth (YoY) | 956.24 % | 35.14 % | 2.04 % | 164.64 % | -90.25 % | 76.81 % |
| Cost of Revenue | 23.65 M | 22.44 M | 20.93 M | 20.10 M | 18.40 M | 17.52 M |
| Gross Profit | 107.36 M | 251.86 M | 51.89 M | 253.66 M | -5.99 M | 185.46 M |
| SG&A Expense | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -141.02 M | 535.56 M | 0.00 |
| R&D Expense | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Operating Expenses | -177.03 M | -586.65 M | 104.85 M | -141.02 M | 535.56 M | -166.55 M |
| Operating Income | 284.40 M | 838.51 M | -52.96 M | 394.67 M | 529.57 M | 18.90 M |
| Pretax Income | 255.21 M | 806.29 M | -84.50 M | 362.86 M | 499.07 M | -13.50 M |
| Tax Provision | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Net Income | 255.21 M | 806.29 M | -84.50 M | 362.86 M | 499.07 M | -13.50 M |
| EPS (Basic) | 1.59 | 5.03 | -0.53 | 2.26 | 3.11 | -0.08 |
| EPS (Diluted) | 1.59 | 5.03 | -0.53 | 2.26 | 3.11 | -0.08 |
| Shares Outstanding | 160.37 M | 160.37 M | 160.37 M | 160.37 M | 160.37 M | 160.34 M |
Quarterly figures; YoY compares the same fiscal quarter a year earlier. Source: public market data.