REFR Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Research Frontiers | NASDAQ:REFR)

Research Frontiers Inc is engaged in the development and marketing of technology and devices to control the flow of light. The company develops and licenses its patented suspended particle device light-control technology to other companies that manufacture and market the SPD-Smart chemical emulsion, the light-control film made from the chemical emulsion, the light-control panels made by laminating the film, electronics to power end-products incorporating the film, or lamination services for, and the end-products. The company's revenue source comes from the licensing of technology.

Research Frontiers trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol REFR.

As of September 30, 2026, REFR stock price climbed to $0.73 with 115,258 million shares trading.

REFR has a beta of 0.92, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. REFR has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

REFR has a market cap of $25.62 million. This is considered a Sub-Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, REFR traded as high as $2.70 and as low as $.34.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that REFR belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VXF.

REFR has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -51.3%, while SPY returned +16.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in REFR shares. However, REFR has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +33.4% and +104.0%, while SPY returned +3.2% and +0.9%, respectively. This indicates REFR has been having a stronger performance recently.

REFR support price is $.63 and resistance is $.77 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that REFR shares will trade within this expected range on the day.