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Deep Value: cash covers more than 100% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $20M in cash and investments — more than its entire stock-market value, based on its latest quarterly filing. You're paying very little for the actual business. Sometimes that's a genuine bargain or a takeover target, sometimes it's cheap for a reason. Not a buy signal on its own — always ask why it's this cheap.

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Envoy Medical

COCH
17
Medical - Devices · Healthcare
Exchange
NASDAQ Capital Market
Winston Score
17
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
Data not available
Valuation
Data not available

Winston Score History

The full picture

Envoy Medical is a medical device company that makes hearing implants. Its main product is the Acclaim Cochlear Implant, a fully implanted device designed to help people with severe hearing loss. Unlike traditional hearing aids or cochlear implants that have external parts, the Acclaim is placed entirely inside the body, which sets it apart in the hearing health market.

The company sells its devices to patients through hearing specialists and surgeons, primarily in the United States. Envoy Medical is very small, with a market cap near zero, and its financials show it is spending far more than it earns — the deeply negative margins reflect a company still in early commercial stages. The key growth driver is gaining broader insurance coverage and clinical adoption for the Acclaim, but the main risk is that the company may struggle to fund operations long enough to reach profitability given its current cash burn rate.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-34.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+78.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

47.9%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~11 months

$20M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Envoy Medical 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
-445.1%
Thin — -445.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-10919.6%
Losing money on operations — -10919.6%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-715.1%
Weak — -715.1% 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
-6.8%
Shrinking sales (-6.8% 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
-10488.4%
Burning cash (-10488.4%)

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
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/M
no trend
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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