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Cynata Therapeutics Limited

CYP.AX
19
Biotechnology · Healthcare
Price
A$0.01
+0.00 (+9.09%)
Market Cap
A$2.9M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
19
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Based on the IPO prospectus (annual filing). This score will refine automatically once the company reports its first quarters.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+57.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 130.4M (2021) → 205.0M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Cynata Therapeutics is an Australian biotechnology company that develops cell therapies — treatments made from living cells — to fight serious diseases. Its core technology is called Cymerus, a platform that turns a type of stem cell into large batches of therapeutic cells called mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The company is focused on conditions like graft-versus-host disease, asthma, and critical limb ischemia, and it works with research partners and clinical trial sites rather than selling products to everyday consumers.

Cynata makes money primarily through licensing deals, research partnerships, and government grants rather than product sales — which explains why it has no meaningful revenue yet and a deeply negative return on capital. It operates mainly in Australia and the UK, and its key advantage is the Cymerus platform, which can produce MSCs at industrial scale from a single donor, solving a manufacturing problem that limits most competitors. The main risk is that the company depends entirely on clinical trials succeeding before it can commercialize anything, and failure in any key trial could threaten its future.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+63.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong revenue growth

EPS Growth

+12.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

R&D Spend

A$8M/ year

Declining (-12% vs prior year)

407.4% of revenue

22.6x the sector average (18%)

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

Insider Activity

19.1%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~3 months

A$5M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Strong grower

Cynata Therapeutics Limited is growing revenue at 63% year-over-year. The Winston Score penalises unprofitable companies, but revenue at this pace tells a different story — this is a company still in "build mode."

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
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-430.9%
Losing money on operations — -430.9%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-135.8%
Weak — -135.8% 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
-18.6%
Shrinking sales (-18.6% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
N/A
Data not available

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-465.2%
Burning cash (-465.2%)

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
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
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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