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Brightstar Resources Limited

BTR.AX
24
Gold · Basic Materials
Price
A$0.50
+0.02 (+4.17%)
Market Cap
A$549.0M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
24
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count falling — buybacks

39.6% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 612.3M (2021) → 370.0M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Brightstar Resources is a small Australian gold mining company focused on exploring and developing gold deposits in Western Australia. It holds several projects in the Murchison and Laverton regions, which are established gold-producing areas of Australia. The company is working to bring its assets toward production rather than operating as a fully producing miner.

Brightstar makes money by eventually selling gold it mines, but right now it is still in the exploration and development stage, meaning it spends more money than it earns. It operates entirely within Australia and has a market value of around $200 million, which is small even by junior mining standards. The negative margins reflect the reality that the company is pre-revenue or early-revenue, and the main risk is that it will need to keep raising fresh capital from investors to fund its path to full production — a common challenge for junior gold developers that can dilute existing shareholders over time.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

>+1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

-462.2% 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

20.1%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~2 months

A$23M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Revenue accelerating

Brightstar Resources Limited grew revenue 1689% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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
-74.8%
Thin — -74.8% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-87.3%
Losing money on operations — -87.3%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-21.8%
Weak — -21.8% 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
>+1,000%
Fast-growing sales (>+1,000% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
2/8 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
-77.9%
Burning cash (-77.9%)

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
0.15
Conservative — low debt load (0.15)
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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