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Real Estate - Services · Real Estate
Price
$3.52
+0.17 (+5.07%)
Market Cap
$130.2M
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange American
Winston Score
18
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+628.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 5.0M (2021) → 36.7M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Comstock Inc. is a Nevada-based company that has shifted its focus from gold and silver mining to clean energy and resource recovery. Its main businesses involve breaking down woody biomass — things like trees and agricultural waste — into fuels and other useful materials, and recycling end-of-life solar panels to recover valuable metals. The company targets energy producers, recyclers, and industrial customers looking for sustainable material solutions.

Comstock makes money by developing and licensing its proprietary processing technologies, and it also earns revenue from direct operations and partnerships. It operates primarily in the United States, and its competitive position rests on its patented methods for biomass conversion and solar panel recycling — areas where few companies have scaled solutions. The company is very small, with a market cap around $200 million, and its deeply negative margins show it is still in an early, cash-burning stage; the key risk is whether it can commercialize its technologies before running out of financial runway.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-19.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-25.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$12M/ year

Declining (-35% vs prior year)

792.9% of revenue

792.9x the sector average (1%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

2.5%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~2 years

$99M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$99M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

Comstock'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
-328.4%
Thin — -328.4% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-9872.8%
Losing money on operations — -9872.8%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-40.0%
Weak — -40.0% 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
-69.1%
Shrinking sales (-69.1% 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
-4012.1%
Burning cash (-4012.1%)

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
0.10
Conservative — low debt load (0.10)
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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