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

This company holds roughly $510M 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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Bicycle Therapeutics

BCYC
32
Biotechnology · Healthcare
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
32
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Data not available
Valuation
Data not available

Winston Score History

The full picture

Bicycle Therapeutics is a British biotechnology company that develops a new type of cancer drug called "Bicycles." These are tiny synthetic molecules that work like a bridge — they attach to cancer cells on one end and recruit the immune system to attack on the other end. The company's main customers are large pharmaceutical partners and, ultimately, cancer patients in clinical trials. Its defining feature is its proprietary Bicycle platform, which it claims can reach targets that traditional antibodies cannot.

Bicycle Therapeutics makes money through research partnerships, licensing deals, and milestone payments from larger drug companies, rather than selling approved products. It operates primarily in the UK and US and has a market cap of roughly $300 million. The 100% gross margin reflects partnership revenue with no cost of goods, but the deeply negative operating margin shows the company is spending heavily on research. The key risk is that its pipeline drugs must succeed in clinical trials before the company can generate sustainable revenue.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-78.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+36.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

11.4%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~3 years

$510M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$510M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

Bicycle Therapeutics's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-8673.9%
Losing money on operations — -8673.9%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-41.2%
Weak — -41.2% 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
+217.4%
Fast-growing sales (+217.4% YoY)
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
-341.7%
Burning cash (-341.7%)

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
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
no trend
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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