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Australian Rare Earths Limited

AR3.AX
Other Precious Metals · Basic Materials
Price
A$0.12
+0.00 (+1.74%)
Market Cap
A$25.3M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
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No score yet — nothing to grade.
This is a pre-revenue company — it has no sales yet, just exploration or development costs. There’s no operating business to grade on profitability, margins or cash flow, so the Winston Score stays blank until it starts booking revenue.

Share count rising — dilution

+51.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 110.7M (2021) → 167.2M (2025)

§Winston Score History

The full picture

Australian Rare Earths is an exploration-stage mining company focused on discovering and developing deposits of rare earth elements in Australia. Rare earths are special minerals used to make magnets for electric vehicles, wind turbines, smartphones, and defense equipment. The company's flagship project is the Koppamurra deposit, located along the South Australia–Victoria border.

As an explorer, Australian Rare Earths does not yet generate revenue from selling minerals. It funds its operations through capital raises from investors. The company is very small by market capitalization and is pre-revenue, meaning it spends money on drilling and studies rather than earning profits. Its potential advantage lies in offering a non-Chinese source of rare earths at a time when Western governments want to diversify supply chains. The key growth driver is advancing Koppamurra toward a mining decision, but the main risk is that the project may not prove economically viable or may require significant additional funding to develop.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

-21.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

A$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

21.2%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~4 years

A$2M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

A$2M cash & investments at current burn rate

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
N/A
Data not available
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
N/A
Data not available
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-19.0%
Weak — -19.0% 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
N/A
Data not available
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
N/A
Data not available

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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
N/A
Data not available

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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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