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

This company holds roughly $185M 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.

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Aumann AG

AAG.DE
43
Industrial - Machinery · Industrials
Exchange
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Winston Score
43
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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
Weak
Cash Flow
Exceptional
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Good

Winston Score History

The full picture

Aumann AG is a German industrial machinery company that builds specialized manufacturing equipment. Its core products are winding machines and automated production lines used to make electric motors and coils. The main customers are automotive suppliers and car manufacturers who need this equipment to produce electric vehicles and hybrid cars.

Aumann makes money by selling custom-built machines and complete production systems to industrial clients, typically on a project-by-project basis. The company is based in Germany and operates primarily in Europe, with some exposure to Asian and North American automotive markets. It is a relatively small player with a market cap around $200 million, but it holds a focused technical position in e-mobility manufacturing equipment. The key growth driver is the ongoing shift toward electric vehicles, which requires automakers to build new production lines — but the main risk is that if EV adoption slows or automakers delay capital spending, demand for Aumann's equipment can drop quickly.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
9.1%
Thin — 9.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
6.6%
Modest — 6.6% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
8.9%
Below par — 8.9% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-41.4%
Shrinking sales (-41.4% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-26.7%
Earnings shrinking (-26.7% YoY)

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

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
3/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
280%
Turns 280% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
19.6%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (19.6%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.01
Conservative — low debt load (0.01)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
25.71x
Comfortably covers interest (25.7x)

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

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
13.8x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 13.8

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

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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