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Alvotech

ALVO
20
Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic · Healthcare
Price
$4.43
+0.16 (+3.75%)
Market Cap
$1.50B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
20
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Weak
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+793.4% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 31.3M (2021) → 279.2M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Alvotech is a biopharmaceutical company that makes biosimilars — medicines that are nearly identical copies of expensive biological drugs. These products treat serious conditions like arthritis, inflammatory diseases, and eye disorders. The company sells its biosimilars to healthcare providers and partners with larger pharmaceutical distributors to reach patients, mainly in the United States and Europe.

Alvotech earns money by selling its biosimilar products and through licensing and commercialization agreements with regional partners, which helps it reach markets without building its own sales force everywhere. Headquartered in Iceland, it operates manufacturing facilities focused entirely on biologics, which gives it a specialized production capability that is difficult and costly to replicate. The company's gross margin is strong, but its negative return on invested capital signals it is still spending heavily to build out its pipeline and pay down debt — successfully launching additional biosimilars and gaining market share against entrenched branded drugs remains the central challenge ahead.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-38.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-272.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$184M/ year

Rising (+8% vs prior year)

31.4% of revenue

1.7x the sector average (18%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

69.5%ownership

Rising

Insiders increasing their stake — aligned with shareholders

Cash Runway

~19 months

$308M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Adequate runway but may need to raise capital within 2 years

Heavy R&D investment

Alvotech is putting 31% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 1.7x the sector average.

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
50.7%
Healthy — 50.7% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-11.2%
Losing money on operations — -11.2%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-1.1%
Weak — -1.1% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-12.2%
Shrinking sales (-12.2% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-344.2%
Earnings shrinking (-344.2% 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
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-61.0%
Burning cash (-61.0%)

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
0.30x
Dangerous — barely covers interest (0.3x)

Interest coverage below 1. Their profits don't cover the interest bill.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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