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Decoy Therapeutics

DCOY
Biotechnology · Healthcare
Price
$4.23
+1.13 (+36.45%)
Market Cap
$2.3M
Exchange
NASDAQ Capital Market
Winston Score
Winston looking sleepy
No score yet — nothing to grade.
This is a pre-revenue company — it has no sales yet, just exploration or development costs. There’s no operating business to grade on profitability, margins or cash flow, so the Winston Score stays blank until it starts booking revenue.

Share count rising — dilution

+3392.8% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 14K (2021) → 482K (2025)

§Winston Score History

The full picture

Decoy Therapeutics is a small biotechnology company focused on developing new medicines to treat diseases. The company works on early-stage drug candidates, meaning its treatments are still being researched and tested rather than sold to patients. It operates in the biotech industry, where companies spend years and large amounts of money trying to bring new therapies to market.

As a pre-revenue biotech, Decoy Therapeutics does not yet generate meaningful sales. It funds its operations primarily through equity financing and capital raises. The company is very small by market capitalization and faces the significant risks common to early-stage biotechs, including the possibility that its drug candidates may never receive regulatory approval. Its path forward depends on achieving positive clinical or preclinical results that could attract partnerships or additional funding.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

+34.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$368,170/ year

Declining (-52% vs prior year)

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

Insider Activity

0.6%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Runway

~9 months

$8M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Decoy Therapeutics 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
N/A
Data not available
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
N/A
Data not available
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-343.5%
Weak — -343.5% 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
N/A
Data not available
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
7/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
N/A
Data not available

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
1.81
Elevated debt (1.81)
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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