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AQ Group AB (publ)

AQ.ST
59
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Exchange
Stockholm Stock Exchange
Winston Score
59
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Strong
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Weak

Winston Score History

The full picture

AQ Group AB is a Swedish industrial company that makes electrical components and systems used inside other companies' products. Its main customers are manufacturers in industries like vehicles, defense, medical equipment, and industrial machinery — businesses that need custom-built cables, circuit boards, power supplies, and enclosures. AQ is not a household name, but it supplies the hidden parts that make larger machines work.

AQ makes money by selling these components directly to other businesses, not to regular consumers. The company operates across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, with a large share of production in lower-cost countries like China, India, and Eastern Europe. Its competitive edge comes from offering customized, small-to-medium production runs that larger rivals often ignore. The key growth driver is increasing demand from defense and electrification customers, but the main risk is that AQ depends heavily on a relatively small number of large industrial customers, making revenue sensitive to slowdowns in manufacturing spending.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+9.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+6.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

Insider Activity

36.2%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~4 years

kr 863M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

kr 863M cash & investments at current burn rate

Growth context

AQ Group AB (publ) is growing revenue at 10% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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
9.5%
Thin — 9.5% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
9.5%
Modest — 9.5% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
16.6%
Strong — 16.6% return on capital

ROIC between 15% and 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns 15 to 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+7.6%
Steady sales growth (+7.6% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+7.1%
Modest earnings growth (+7.1% YoY)

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
115%
Turns 115% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
6.0%
Modest free cash flow (6.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.03
Conservative — low debt load (0.03)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
78.36x
Comfortably covers interest (78.4x)

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

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
27.4x
no trend
Growth-priced — P/E 27.4

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
+4.1
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (27.4 → 23.3)

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
0.83%
no trend
Small dividend — 0.83% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
-47.4%
no trend
Dividend cut (-47.4% YoY) — warning sign

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