Deep Value: cash covers more than 100% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $24M in cash and investments — more than its entire stock-market value, based on its latest quarterly filing. You're paying very little for the actual business. Sometimes that's a genuine bargain or a takeover target, sometimes it's cheap for a reason. Not a buy signal on its own — always ask why it's this cheap.

Alarum Technologies

ALAR

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

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Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026

How the score breaks down

Quality

Mixed

Growth

Mixed

Cash Flow

Weak

Stability

Good

Valuation

Good

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Winston Score History

The full picture

Alarum Technologies is an Israeli technology company that provides internet access and data collection tools for businesses. Its main product is a network access platform that lets companies gather publicly available data from the web without getting blocked — useful for market research, price monitoring, and competitive intelligence. The company serves businesses that need large-scale, anonymous web data, and it also has a consumer internet privacy segment.

Alarum makes money by charging business customers subscription or usage-based fees for access to its proxy network and data collection infrastructure. It operates primarily out of Israel but serves customers globally, and it generated modest revenue in the tens of millions of dollars range. The company's gross margin near 58% reflects a software-like business, but its razor-thin operating margin of about 1.5% shows it is barely breaking even. The key risk is intense competition in the web data and proxy market from larger, better-funded rivals, which could pressure pricing and make it hard to grow profitably.

Growth Profile

For growth stock investors

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

+64.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+69.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

6.0%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$24M cash & investments

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue accelerating

Alarum Technologies grew revenue 64% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale

Gross Margin

61.7%

Premium pricing power — 61.7% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

6.9%

Modest — 6.9% operating margin

Return on the money invested

ROCE

2.8%

Weak — 2.8% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales growth

Sales YoY

+48.2%

Fast-growing sales (+48.2% YoY)

Profit growth

EPS YoY

-74.3%

Earnings shrinking (-74.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

How steady the profit is

EPS Consistency

4/8 quarters

Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash

Cash Conversion

-100%

Weak — only -100% of profit becomes cash

Spare cash per sale

FCF Margin

-2.9%

Burning cash (-2.9%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Covers its interest

Interest Cover

100.00x

Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit

P/E Ratio (TTM)

9.5x

no trend

Attractive valuation — P/E 9.5

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year

P/E vs Forward

-17.6

SLOWING

Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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