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

This company holds roughly $30M 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.

Bioceres Crop Solutions

BIOX

Agricultural Inputs · Basic Materials

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026

How the score breaks down

Quality

Weak

Growth

Weak

Cash Flow

Mixed

Stability

Weak

Valuation

Data not available

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Winston Score History

The full picture

Bioceres Crop Solutions is an agricultural technology company that helps farmers grow more crops using biology instead of chemicals. Its main products include HB4, a drought-tolerant seed trait for wheat and soybeans, along with biostimulants, biofertilizers, and crop protection products. The company sells to farmers and agricultural businesses primarily in Latin America, with a strong base in Argentina.

Bioceres earns revenue by selling its seed treatments, biological inputs, and licensing its HB4 technology to seed companies in exchange for royalty fees. It operates mainly across South America, with growing efforts to expand HB4 licensing into North America and other markets. The company's main competitive edge is its proprietary drought-tolerance technology, which is one of the few commercially approved traits of its kind for wheat globally. The key growth driver is broader regulatory approval and adoption of HB4 wheat, but the business currently runs at a small operating loss, which means execution risk remains meaningful.

Growth Profile

For growth stock investors

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

Revenue Growth

-35.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-817.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

Insider Activity

29.9%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$86M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue declining

Bioceres Crop Solutions'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

30.1%

Modest — 30.1% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

-17.0%

Losing money on operations — -17.0%

Return on the money invested

ROCE

0.7%

Weak — 0.7% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales growth

Sales YoY

-29.8%

Shrinking sales (-29.8% YoY)

Profit growth

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

How steady the profit is

EPS Consistency

1/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash

Cash Conversion

N/A

Data not available

Spare cash per sale

FCF Margin

20.8%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (20.8%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns

Debt / Equity

3.57

Heavy debt load (3.57)

Covers its interest

Interest Cover

0.07x

Dangerous — barely covers interest (0.1x)

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

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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