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Ceres Power Holdings

CWR.L
17
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
17
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
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Data not available
Valuation
Data not available

Winston Score History

The full picture

Ceres Power is a British technology company that develops fuel cell technology — a way to generate electricity cleanly using hydrogen or natural gas instead of burning fossil fuels. Its core product is the SteelCell, a solid oxide fuel cell that it licenses to large manufacturers rather than building and selling directly to consumers. The company works with major industrial partners including Bosch, Doosan, and Weichai Power across Europe and Asia.

Ceres makes most of its money through technology licensing fees and funded development agreements, where partners pay Ceres to help adapt the technology for their own products. It operates primarily in the UK but has partnerships spanning Germany, South Korea, and China, giving it a global footprint despite being a relatively small company. The key risk is clear in the financials — Ceres is spending far more than it earns, and its path to profitability depends entirely on partners successfully commercializing products built around its technology at meaningful scale.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-50.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-72.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

Insider Activity

25.4%ownership

Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Runway

~12 months

£84M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Adequate runway but may need to raise capital within 2 years

Revenue declining

Ceres Power Holdings'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
34.7%
Modest — 34.7% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-246.0%
Losing money on operations — -246.0%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-43.7%
Weak — -43.7% 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
-37.1%
Shrinking sales (-37.1% 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
-62.6%
Burning cash (-62.6%)

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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