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CuriosityStream

CURI
53
Entertainment · Communication Services
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
53
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Good
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Strong
Stability
Data not available
Valuation
Data not available
Dividends
Exceptional

Winston Score History

The full picture

CuriosityStream is a streaming video service that focuses entirely on documentaries and non-fiction content. It covers topics like science, nature, history, and technology, and its customers are people who want to learn something while they watch. The company was founded by John Hendricks, the same person who created the Discovery Channel.

Subscribers pay a monthly or annual fee to access CuriosityStream's library of thousands of documentaries, similar to how Netflix works but focused only on factual content. The service operates globally and is also distributed through pay-TV providers and other streaming platforms, which helps it reach more viewers without always signing them up directly. With a market cap of around $200 million, it is a small player competing against much larger streaming giants, and its ongoing operating losses highlight the core challenge: growing a niche subscriber base fast enough to cover content and operating costs before cash runs out.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+22.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

>+1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

47.2%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~10 months

$15M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

CuriosityStream has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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
72.8%
Premium pricing power — 72.8% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
39.5%
Excellent — 39.5% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-0.5%
Weak — -0.5% 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
+24.9%
Fast-growing sales (+24.9% 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
22483%
Turns 22483% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
7.1%
Modest free cash flow (7.1%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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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/A
no trend
Data not available
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
15.18%
no trend
Healthy income — 15.18% yield

Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
+32.7%
no trend
Dividend growing fast (32.7% YoY)

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