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Delcath Systems

DCTH
51
Medical - Devices · Healthcare
Price
$17.14
+0.39 (+2.33%)
Market Cap
$591.7M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
51
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
Mixed
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Exceptional
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+458.6% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 7.1M (2021) → 39.9M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Delcath Systems is a small medical device company that makes a specialized system for delivering high doses of chemotherapy directly to the liver. Its main product is called HEPZATO KIT (melphalan hydrochloride for injection), which is used to treat a rare form of eye cancer called uveal melanoma that has spread to the liver. The company sells to hospitals and cancer treatment centers in the United States, where HEPZATO received FDA approval in 2023.

Delcath earns revenue by selling its HEPZATO KIT system to hospitals on a per-procedure basis, meaning it gets paid each time the treatment is used on a patient. The company is small, with a market cap around $400 million, and currently operates primarily in the US while pursuing regulatory approvals in Europe under the name CHEMOSAT. Its high gross margin reflects the premium pricing of a niche, FDA-approved oncology device, but the key risk is that the addressable patient population for uveal melanoma liver metastases is very small, which limits how large the business can grow.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+20.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

-6.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$29M/ year

Rising (+111% vs prior year)

34.3% of revenue

1.9x the sector average (18%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

17.2%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$96M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Heavy R&D investment

Delcath Systems is putting 34% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 1.9x the sector average. And they're generating enough cash to self-fund it.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
89.8%
Premium pricing power — 89.8% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
8.2%
Modest — 8.2% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-1.5%
Weak — -1.5% 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
+35.8%
Fast-growing sales (+35.8% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-83.1%
Earnings shrinking (-83.1% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

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
3843%
Turns 3843% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
18.6%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (18.6%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.02
Conservative — low debt load (0.02)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/A
Data not available
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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